Butter or margarine

Vince · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:18 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

That sounds scrumptious Suz. My favourite has always been nice fresh bread, spread thickly with good quality butter then crunchy peanut butter and topped with Golden Syrup.

Damn...I've developed a craving for a sanga. Laughing

Bushmaster · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Starting to get a craving for home made bread, home made dill pickles (sliced thin) and peanut butter.

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:37 am Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Geez, I start reading this at 4:30AM (darn dog woke me up) and now I'm HUNGRY!

Aloysius · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:42 am Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Why does nobody mention simply bread, butter and a little bit of salt?

and what about bread, bit of butter or fat, bacon and some brown sugar (not the one used to make rum (=cane-sugar). Here we have a light brown, rather soft sugar)

peanut butter... is this something you learned from the Netherlandish people?

Bushmaster · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 8:39 am Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

No...Not at all. Peanut butter was invented by George Washington Carver here in the US of A...

Aloysius · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 10:03 am Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Let me enjoy this moment because it happens not so often that you in all your wisdom make a mistake...
or is Wikipedea wrong? Smile

"History

Peanuts are native to the tropics of the Americas and were mashed to become a pasty substance by the Aztec Native Americans hundreds of years ago.[2] A number of peanut paste products have been used over the centuries, and the distinction between peanut paste and peanut butter is not always clear in ordinary use. Early forms of peanut butter, like the Aztecs' version, were nothing but pure roasted peanut paste. Modern processing machines allow for very smooth products to be made, which often include vegetable oils to aid in its spreadability.
Evidence of peanut butter as it is known today comes from U.S. Patent 306,727, issued in 1884 to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the finished product of the process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts entered "a fluid or semi-fluid state." As the peanut product cooled, it set into what Edson explained as being "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment". Edson's patent is based on the preparation of a peanut paste as an intermediate to the production the modern product we know as peanut butter; it does show the initial steps necessary for the production of peanut butter.

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[2] George Washington Carver is often falsely credited with inventing peanut butter and is nearly synonymous with its history in the United States.
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Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented a "Process of Preparing Nut Meal" in 1895 and used peanuts. Kellogg served the patients at his Battle Creek Sanitarium peanut butter.[3]
Dr. Ambrose Straub, a physician in St. Louis, Missouri, pursued a method for providing toothless elderly with protein in the 1890s. His peanut-butter-making machine was patented in 1903.[4]
January 24 is National Peanut Butter Day in the United States.[5]"

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Aloysius, good info there, thanks! Peanut butter, or as we call it "food of the gods", has always been a favorite in this home.

Bushmaster · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

And you are correct Aloysius. I read the same thing. It is also mentioned that smashed peanuts were invented and reinvented many times as peanuts have been with us for thousands of years.

Me? Wrong (again?) Wouldn't be the first time nor the last. But I have a prety good rep for being right most of the time.

Aloysius · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 12:44 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Honestly: I had never heard of George Washington Carver...
but now I fear that Suz will get some competition about this Native American thing... for me it's all the same, but when talking about peanut butter some Azteks are presented on the stage or is this only now because of that Maya thing?
maybe Aztek was the father of Winitou...

Bushmaster · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Don't get her started....We'll end up with a two page report on ALL of the inventions that the Native Americans did. Very Happy

chambered221 · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

To hell with the peanut butter I say !!! Yuck

Give me some buttered toast and grape jelly !!! Very Happy

Bushmaster · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Grape?? Well maybe strawberry.

Suzanne · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Oh where do I start............I thought it was ole Carver....that's what we were taught in school anyway. Shows our age Bushterschmacky, back when white guys could make versions of history by the seat of their pants and no body questioned it. Now ya gots Wikipedia to mess with.

Suz
notinthemood
really

shrpshtrjoe · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:18 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

I just had some home made pumpkin butter my sister canned Very Happy

Bushmaster · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: Butter or margarine

Lunch...Today...Peanut butter and honey on whole wheat bread and chasing it with a beer.