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    Peanut Butter Sweets
    Peanut Butter Sweets
    Peanut Butter Sweets
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    Peanut Butter Sweets

    By Pamela Bennett

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    Whether you like creamy or crunchy, there’s no denying that peanut butter ranks close to the top as a pantry staple. And what better way to enjoy it than by using it to create and share sweet treats! From smoothies, cookies, pies, and cakes to candies, dips, sauces, and toppings, the 70 recipes in this book are chosen winners. No matter how you spread it, Peanut Butter Sweets is a must for the peanut-butter lover’s bookshelf.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGibbs Smith
    Release dateJan 1, 2012
    ISBN9781423624493
    Peanut Butter Sweets
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    Pamela Bennett

    Pamela Bennett was born in Coalinga, an infinitesimal town in the Central Valley of California. Though she maintains contact with her small town roots, for the last forty-eight years Pam's home has been in the greater Bay Area of Northern California. Pam graduated from U.C.Berkeley in 1977 with a major in physical education, which segued nicely into nursing school and a nursing career. Pam began working in neonatal nursing directly after nursing school, and never changed her focus or hospital. After thirty years, the repetitious nature of most hospital dilemmas became increasingly obvious and more irritating. In order to overcome aggravation and avoid pessimism, the Guerrilla Nursing project was born. Pam's hobbies, besides writing, include construction of rock projects (stone benches, retaining walls, etc.), forest maintenance (pruning and trimming), and genealogy.

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      Introduction

      Peanut butter was an essential in my mama’s kitchen cupboard. It was woven into the everyday fabric of our lives: creamy peanut butter tucked inside hot buttermilk biscuits or generously slathered on bread with homemade blackberry jam, and the unmistakable fragrance of peanut butter cookies, fresh from the oven, awaiting us as we came home from school. Even when our mother became a successful business owner, she literally tucked a small jar of peanut butter in her purse everyday—it was her snack of choice. Growing up with peanut butter as a staple, it was only natural that my fifth-grade research project was written on the history of peanuts!

      Peanuts were first grown by the Incas in Peru around 950 BC. They gradually made their way from South America to Africa and then onward to Spain, before finding their way to the American colonies. My native North Carolina shows a history of peanuts being planted by the year 1818, although some farmers claim that peanuts were growing there during the Revolutionary War.

      George Washington Carver, the great botanist and inventor, promoted planting peanut crops to help poor farmers when their cotton crops failed. He developed over 100 recipes using peanuts as well as developing dyes, paints, cosmetics, even nitroglycerin using the complex, versatile peanut. His scientific research illuminated what we know today—peanuts are packed with protein and vitamins E and B3; they’re higher in antioxidants than apples or carrots. However, the most important thing is—peanut butter just tastes delicious! It enhances whatever it accompanies. Scientists extol the health benefits of eating peanut butter, but the kitchen of my childhood elevated simple peanut butter treats to rock-star status.

      The paradox seems to be that the more we eat peanut butter, the more we enjoy it. Its versatility allows us to never tire of it—perfect peanut butter bars, dreamy, creamy peanut butter pie, decadently rich penuche and fudge, gooey lip-smacking pound cake laced with thick peanut butter frosting..., so it’s little wonder that the average American consumer eats six pounds of peanut butter each year. By the time a teen graduates from high school, she or he has eaten over 1,500 peanut butter sandwiches!

      But there’s so much more versatility and potential waiting inside each of these legumes. This book will guide you through simple steps, using basic ingredients, to produce amazing goodies. It is filled with mouth-watering recipes of delectable sweet treats featuring peanut butter as the star ingredient: cakes, pies, cookies, candies, toppings, beverages—amazing sweets that you can’t imagine how you lived without before now.

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