Home Made Maple or Butternut Syrup Traveling to or from Boulder, Utah, in the 60s where I grew up, took time. Narrow, dusty roads, deep canyons, and lots of washboard patches. Traveling to a big grocey store generally took four hours. In addition, when snow closed the Boulder Mountain road, the time increased. Therefore, my […]
Lumpy Dick What is Lumpy Dick? (Ok, its probably not what you’re thinking…) Pioneers and some of our ancestors cooked with basic items they had on hand. Flour, eggs, milk, and salt and pepper may be what many families existed on as the winter turned into spring. Lumpy Dick was usually made from flour and water
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The social distancing of COVID-19 kept us from serving others in ways we love. Last fall, our friend Dell Lefevre died. The church in our area planned a family dinner to take place after the graveside services. They asked my mother and me to make something to bring to the dinner. Of course, I chose to
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Grandma’s Schedule included a Bread-Making Day Grandpa and Grandma purchased a ranch in the early 1900s in a remote area in Southern Utah. They moved into a small cabin with their baby boy and eventually had 15 children. As the middle child, my mother remembered her mother’s weekly schedule, especially the bread-making day with my
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