diff --git a/cookbook/templates/recipe_view.html b/cookbook/templates/recipe_view.html
index ade2b1bd2..cbff76720 100644
--- a/cookbook/templates/recipe_view.html
+++ b/cookbook/templates/recipe_view.html
@@ -20,8 +20,29 @@
             cursor: text;
             transform-origin: 0% 0%;
         }
+
+        blockquote {
+            background: #f9f9f9;
+            border-left: 4px solid #ccc;
+            margin: 1.5em 10px;
+            padding: .5em 10px;
+            quotes: none;
+        }
+
+        blockquote:before {
+            color: #ccc;
+            content: open-quote;
+            font-size: 4em;
+            line-height: .1em;
+            margin-right: .25em;
+            vertical-align: -.4em;
+        }
+
+        blockquote p {
+            display: inline;
+        }
     </style>
-    
+
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block content %}
diff --git a/cookbook/templatetags/custom_tags.py b/cookbook/templatetags/custom_tags.py
index 199fcc85a..d759ec409 100644
--- a/cookbook/templatetags/custom_tags.py
+++ b/cookbook/templatetags/custom_tags.py
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ def get_class(value):
 @register.filter()
 def markdown(value):
     tags = markdown_tags + ['pre', 'table', 'td', 'tr', 'th', 'tbody', 'style', 'thead']
-    test = md.markdown(value, extensions=['markdown.extensions.fenced_code', 'tables', MarkdownFormatExtension()])
-    return bleach.clean(test, tags, print_attrs, markdown_attrs)
+    parsed_md = md.markdown(value, extensions=['markdown.extensions.fenced_code', 'tables', MarkdownFormatExtension()])
+    return bleach.clean(parsed_md, tags, print_attrs, markdown_attrs)