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Peanut butter is a food paste or spread made from ground, dry-roasted peanuts. It commonly contains additional ingredients that modify the taste or texture, such as salt, sweeteners, or emulsifiers. Consumed in many countries, it is the most commonly used of the nut butters, a group that also includes cashew butter and almond butter.
Joseph Louis Rosefield (18 Dec 1882 - 8 Nov 1958) was a California food businessman who invented modern, nonseparating peanut butter in 1922 – 1923. His family business, the Rosefield Packing Company, was based in Alameda.
Carver is often mistakenly credited with the invention of peanut butter. [95] By the time Carver published "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption" in 1916, [96] many methods of preparation of peanut butter had been developed or patented by various pharmacists, doctors and food scientists working in the US and ...
The peanut butter we all know and love wasn't introduced to the modern world until nearly 1900. Most people, especially Iowans, tend to believe the famous inventor George Washington Carver can be ...
John H. Kellogg is one of several people who have been credited with the invention of peanut butter. [60] [39] Rose Davis of Alligerville, New York has been reported to have made a peanut spread as early as 1840, after her son described Cuban women grinding peanuts and eating the paste on bread.
According to Markita Lewis, a registered dietician who works as a marketing and communications associate for the National Peanut Board, John Harvey Kellogg (of cereal fame) invented peanut butter ...
In 1884 Edson invented a process to make "peanut paste" for the production of candy, and was awarded United States Patent No. 306727 for that invention. When cooled, his product had "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment".
The Peanut Butter Balls recipe in the 1933 edition of Pillsbury's Balanced Recipes instructed the cook to press the cookies using fork tines. These early recipes do not explain why the advice is given to use a fork, though. The reason is that peanut butter cookie dough is dense, and unpressed, each cookie will not cook evenly.