In a Good Housekeeping article published in May 1896, a recipe “urged homemakers to use a meat grinder to make peanut butter and spread the result on bread.” The following month, the culinary magazine Table Talk published something revolutionary called “the peanut butter sandwich” recipe. An early recipe for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich appeared in the Boston Cooking School Magazine in 1901; it called for “three very thin layers of bread and two of filling, one of peanut paste, whatever brand you prefer, and currant or crabapple jelly for the other”. It became popular with children with the advent of sliced bread in the 1920s, which allowed them to make their own sandwiches easily. Since World War II, both peanut butter and jelly have been found on US soldiers’ military ration list. A 2016 survey by Peter Pan found that people will eat an average of 2,984 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which works out to about three a month for roughly 83 years. The American Heart Association considers the sandwich beneficial to heart health. Do you slather your PB&J with crunchy or smooth peanut butter. What’s your fav peanut butter or jam brand?…Ed
Source: Wikipedia/Saundra Latham/ Photo: Wikimedia Common
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