Posted on 01/11/2021 1:37:09 PM PST by mylife
A Brief History of Peanut Butter The bizarre sanitarium staple that became a spreadable obsession
Veteran food critic Florence Fabricant has called peanut butter “the pâté of childhood"
North Americans weren't the first to grind peanuts—the Inca beat us to it by a few hundred years—but peanut butter reappeared in the modern world because of an American, the doctor, nutritionist and cereal pioneer John Harvey Kellogg, who filed a patent for a proto-peanut butter in 1895. Kellogg’s “food compound” involved boiling nuts and grinding them into an easily digestible paste for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a spa for all kinds of ailments. The original patent didn’t specify what type of nut to use, and Kellogg experimented with almonds as well as peanuts, which had the virtue of being cheaper. While modern peanut butter enthusiasts would likely find Kellogg’s compound bland, Kellogg called it “the most delicious nut butter you ever tasted in your life.”
A Seventh-Day Adventist, Kellogg endorsed a plant-based diet and promoted peanut butter as a healthy alternative to meat, which he saw as a digestive irritant and, worse, a sinful sexual stimulant. His efforts and his elite clientele, which included Amelia Earhart, Sojourner Truth and Henry Ford, helped establish peanut butter as a delicacy. As early as 1896, Good Housekeeping encouraged women to make their own with a meat grinder, and suggested pairing the spread with bread. “The active brains of American inventors have found new economic uses for the peanut,” the Chicago Tribune rhapsodized in July 1897.
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It could make a horse talk!
When the peanut butter fell into the chocolate a miracle happened.
Shouldn’t that be “When the chocolate fell into the peanut butter..?” ;) Sorry, but the first thing that popped into my mind was the old Reese’s commercials. lol
Oh, Wilbur!
Marcellus Gilmore Edson was born at Bedford in Québec. Edson developed the idea of peanut paste as a delicious and nutritious foodstuff for people who could hardly chew solid food, a common state in those days. In 1884 Edson was awarded United States Patent No. 306727 for the invention. His cooled product had "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment", according to his patent application. He included the mixing of sugar into the paste to harden its consistency. The patent describes a process of milling roasted peanuts until the peanuts reached "a fluid or semi-fluid state".
Jif is the best.
It’s ‘settled science’!
And this led to our present day Qtards.
I love history.
I have story about Annette Fuunicielo and Skippy that I can not tell here..
Smooth.
That was my reference. Just misremembered who fell into what.
Thank you South America for the wonders of fueling America!
Graham crackers, corn flakes, and now peanut butter. They were busy up in Battle Creek.
It’s odd how many foods are based on some religious fear of sex.
Personally I think the Quaker Oats guy was foolin around...
My fave is peanut butter and dill pickle on toasted pumpernickel
I always knew George Washington Carver invented Peanut Butter. So I looked it up.
Turns out - HE DIDN’T
I’m so disappointed. One more thing Negroes DIDN’T invent.
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