In my mind, recipe books should have clear images to show the process of what you are cooking or baking to ease your mind on how it should look at certain points. It's the worst when you're just guessing it should look sloppy or crumbly. For older and more serious cooking books, photography works well but I feel for a children's book illustrations are a good call as long as they are clear and simple.
This is on the lines of what I'm looking to do with out the tiny font and huge photograph of the cake in the corner but, adding fun little illustrations are definitely where I'm heading with this.
I also like the idea of adding characters into the recipe book, even though it's no story book, adding characters I feel gives a sense of a story through the process of what is being made and how they react to the parts of the progress.
The vintage/50's illustration style is a style I'd like to look at as this is a book based on a World War recipe.
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