• Desserts

    Peanut Butter Cookies

    Smooth, creamy, peanut-buttery-liciousness. What could be better? This is another of my great-grandmother Florence Robinson Beck’s (1905-1998) recipes. Soft and tender, these are melt-in-your-mouth cookies that are heavenly paired with a glass of milk. This classic treat never gets old. Raising a young family during the Depression in Utah, Florence was practical, frugal, and hardworking–yet quietly elegant. She always tried to keep her hands busy and learned to apply her artistic abilities to creatively repurpose what others might have seen as worthless into something useful or beautiful. She was the queen of recycling before recycling was even a “thing.” She took cloth scraps and sewed them (by hand) into high…

  • Breads

    Dilly Bread

    This recipe belonged to my great-grandmother Florence Robinson Beck (1905-1998), which she passed along to my grandmother Linda Beck Bullough. My grandmother said that she made it often for her own growing family during the 1970’s and 80’s. I’ve been wanting to try it for a while, and I happened to have some cottage cheese in the fridge today. Since we were having soup for dinner, I decided to give it a shot. Wow! I’m glad I did! It’s light and pillowy, more like a roll than a bread, and the flavor is fabulous. The cottage cheese melts and disappears into the bread, so other than the soft, creamy texture…