Every family has recipes that everyone knows and nobody has written down.

They live in pinches, handfuls, pressure-cooker whistles and instructions such as “until it smells right” or “just a little more haldi.”

A Little More Haldi is an illustrated Indian family recipe journal for preserving the dishes, memories, approximate measurements and strong opinions that make a family kitchen its own.

Inside are 20 generous two-page recipe spreads, along with prompts for monsoon cravings, train-journey tiffins, festival tables, summer holidays, after-school favourites and meals that appeared whenever someone needed comforting. There is space for ingredients, reconstructed instructions, family variations, photographs, handwritten scraps and the stories attached to each dish.

Created by Oddly Specific Journals, this is for families, home cooks and anyone whose most trusted unit of measurement is andaaz.