Recipes? As in cooking recipes?

Certainly you could have an index sheet with hyperlinks to the worksheets. Or compact it a bit by putting them on separate tabs of a single worksheet.

But if they are cooking recipes, why use Excel. Excel is for data analysis. Word is more appropriate for written documents.*

If you put them all in an Word document, you can simply apply the Heading 1 style to the title of each and Word can generate a table of contents automatically.



* True story. I had an engineer once email a resume to me as an Excel file. Sorry, if you don't know the basic tools, how can i expect you to understand your job.