Peanut butter, as a food, is a fairly recent invention - little more than 100
years ago. It was first called nutmeal. Since then it has become one of North
America's most popular foods. Commercial brands are basically peanuts, sugar,
salt and a stabilizing oil. The stabilizing oil keeps the peanut oil from
separating from the peanut paste. While most North Americans use peanut butter
as a key ingredient of a peanut butter sandwich - people elsewhere in the world
are more likely to use it as an ingredient in cooking (stews, soups, sauces and
toppings). Most people follow a similar PBCP (peanut butter consumption
pattern!) through their lives. They eat it as kids and teenagers...quit in
their 20's...resume eating it again when they have kids...quit again when the
kids have moved out...start eating it again when they're elderly because it's
an excellent and cheap source of protein.
Source:
http://www.halifax.cbc.ca/streetcents/food/pbutter.html (a long
time ago)
As the above article mentioned, peanut butter is a cheap, excellent, and
popular source of protein. Most North Americans live almost solely on peanut
butter, (perhaps that's a bit of an exaggeration, but close enough). In any
case, lots of peanut butter is consumed in Canada and the US. The most common
way to eat peanut butter is to slap together a peanut butter sandwich.
After eating peanut butter sandwiches for about fifteen years, I have found
that they become a tad bland. The most obvious solution to that problem is to
make a cheese or a salami sandwich. That would be fine, except for the fact
that after eating peanut butter for fifteen years, you become addicted.
Therefore, it has been neccesary for people to find different uses for peanut
butter. I have compiled a
directory of web sites that have recipes of
everything from peanut butter cookies to peanut butter pies. I hope that you
will enjoy browsing through them and perhaps you will try one of the recipes
and tell me about them.
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