My husband smokes delicious chicken wings and bakes amazing banana bread. But bierocks—rolls filled with seasoned ground beef and sauerkraut—are one of his all-time favorite dinners to make. 

The recipe comes from Crestview Café, a collection of recipes from friends and families of Crestview Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado. My husband, Gavin, inherited the vintage spiral-bound cookbook, which was assembled by the school’s PTA, from his late sister Kellee.

While the cookbook is a treasure trove of family recipes shared by teachers, staff, students, parents, and grandparents—from “Earl’s Steak Diane” to “Chili Weekend Cocoction”—Gavin was drawn to how simple the four-ingredient bierocks recipe seemed (and the fact that it’s spelled “beer rocks” in the book). “It almost seemed too easy,” he says.

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