• Breads

    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,…