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Whole Wheat Bread
This is another recipe from my mom, Heather Stephens Bullough, aka “the Bread Queen.” She worked hard to earn this title. I remember as a young mom, she made bread often and was constantly working to improve her recipes and technique. The internet hadn’t yet become the mainstream tool that it is today, so she consulted cookbooks and asked friends and neighbors for their recipes and tips on baking better bread. Wanting to provide her family a healthy diet, she especially wanted to perfect her whole wheat bread, which can be tricky and wasn’t as common at the time. She went through a few rounds of unsuccessful bread “bricks” as…
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Banana Nut Bread
Top notch. Those are the words Jeremiah used to describe this banana bread when he tried it after I first made this recipe. He’s a bit of a food snob, and an excellent cook himself, so this is high praise indeed coming from him. Especially since I’ve made many, many loaves of banana bread during our time together, most of which turned out pretty good, and he’s never lavished them with such a title. But he’s right, I don’t know why this hasn’t been my go-to recipe all along, because it really is top-notch. This recipe comes from Eila Anderson Williams (1913-1991), and my grandmother, Ann Williams Stephens, notes that…
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Grandma Robbie’s Sweet White Bread and Butter
This is a two-for-one post. My grandmother, Linda Beck Bullough, remembers that one of her favorite treats as a child was when they would visit her grandmother, Nellie Ross Robinson (aka “Grandma Robbie”) (1875-1969), and she would give them a slice of white bread slathered with butter and sprinkled with a spoonful of sugar. This was around the time of World War II, and sugar was scarce, so sweets weren’t something they got to enjoy very often. Grandma Robbie’s family was well-off during the early years when they were raising their four children, due to both prosperity in the stock market and a successful music store they owned in Springville,…
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Pizza Crust and Everything Dough
This is one of those recipes that has many possibilities. Homemade pizza, breadsticks, rolls, or bread all turn out great with this recipe. I got this from my Mom back around the time I was leaving for college, and I’ve adapted it a little since then, but at the core, it’s still Mom’s recipe. I always thought of Mom as the “Queen of Breads,” growing up because she made most of our bread from scratch, and was always working on mastering a new recipe or technique. There’s no better way to wake up in the morning than to the smell of fresh baking bread, and that was a treat I…
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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…
