Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — Make Peanut Butter at Home by Grinding Nuts Through a Food Chopper [ARTICLE]

Make Peanut Butter at Home by Grinding Nuts Through a Food Chopper

Delicious peanut butter—a highly nutritious food —may be made at home by grinding the roasted nuts in a food chopper, according to Miss Flora Monroe, director of the cafeteria in the Kansas State Agricultural college. The housewife may vary her uses of this food from the customary use in sandwiches. Puddings, soups, breads, and cakes are enriched by the use of peanut butter. It serves both as shortening and thickening and adds flavor and color. The true worth of peanut butter has never been realized, believes Miss Monroe. It has been generally considered a difficult food to digest, and consequently has been avoided in the diets. When properly masticated it is easily digested. A prejudice against peanut butter is often caused by Ignorance in its use. The butter should be combined with twice the amount of thin cream or milk, and stirred until it is of the creamy consistency of mayonnaise. The flavor can be varied by adding chopped pickles or olives, catsup, onion juice, cheese or fruits. Dates stuffed with peanut butter are appetizing. Whole-wheat muffins, drop cakes, and salads are a few of the numerous ways in which this food may ba used. It adds * delicious flavor to

tomato soup and increases its food value. Peanut butter is an Important food in creating bodily heat. Its fuel value is worth three times its weight in round steak, four times in eggs, seven times in potatoes, and twice its weight in bread. i