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Peanut Butter Yuckies
Don’t let the name fool you. My Dad came up with the “Yuckies” part when my siblings and I were small to try and trick us into letting him eat the whole batch by himself. It never worked, we devoured them, right down to the last crumb. As the Bard wrote: “A peanut butter cornflake treat by any other name would taste as sweet!” Peanut Butter “Yuckies” are a classic no-bake treat that every peanut butter lover will go crazy over. They’re quick and easy to throw together (no oven needed!), and perfect for potlucks, picnics, road trips, game-time snacks, or whenever the craving strikes! Which might happen often, just…
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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…
