Peanut butter cookies

Peanut butter is called the paste like buttery pulp which is derived from ground roasted peanuts. While some peanut butter manufacturers choose to add some oil to their product, the most popular ones are without added substances. The use of peanut butter in sweets is very popular, children use it as a bread spread, together with jelly it is the favorite snack of youngsters in the United States. Peanuts and peanut butter are being used widely in the production of candy, peanuts, for instance, in Snickers bars, and peanut butter in the famous Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

The use of peanuts in cuisines is very prominent in Peru, where almost every dish may contain peanuts. Peanuts are also popular ingredients in South East Asia, especially Indonesia, where a sauce flavored with spices and peanuts is considered a national dish.

Peanut butter, however, seems to be a North American invention, although the applicable patent is disputed. John Harvey Kellogg, of the cereal fame and the co-inventor of the Corn Flakes, with his brother Will Keith Kellogg, with whom he established the Sanitas Food Company, the predecessor to the Kellogg Company, was pegged for the invention and owned the patent for a process which was designed to prepare "Nutmeal", a pasty adhesive substance which was named by Kellogg "nut butter". But there was an earlier discoverer, who patented milling of roasted peanuts between heated surfaces, a person called Marcellus Gilmore Edson, a Canadian. He reckoned that his product looked and behaved like a butter or lard.

Peanut butter cookies can be traced back to thirties in the twentieth century, where several listings of peanut butter as the main ingredient in cookies can be found. A book issued in 1931, the Pillsbury's Balanced Recipes, are registered to be the first official and traceable instance where peanut butter cookies are listed. The interesting fact is that the cookies are suggested to require fork tines to be pressed upon them, in order to cook evenly, which is the imperative move necessary for these cookies to succeed. This advice is valid to this very day.

Peanut butter cookies recipes vary wildly, depending on the source flour may be used, but there are other recipes which prescribe no bake peanut butter cookies without flour. Further additions to the basic recipe are possible, these include the addition of chocolate chips or chunks to the dough, other include butterscotch, peanut chunks, fudge, frosting and what not else. There are also the official Reese's peanut butter cookies, where in freshly baked peanut butter cookies the small variant of peanut butter cups are being pressed.

Linus Orakles
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