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How About Some "Old Fashioned" Homemade Peanut Butter?
2 cups roasted peanuts (*with or without skins)
1 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp salt (omit if salted peanuts are used)
Homemade peanut butter is easily made with an electric blender or food processor. The longer you blend or process, the softer the peanut butter will be.
Note: For chunk style peanut butter stir in 1/2 cup chopped peanuts after the blending or processing is completed.
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 The PB & J Sandwich is near and dear to the heart of just about every kid in America. Some might go so far as to say it's an American Institution! Every 5 years, Kraft Foods analyzes more than 1,700 households to find out what Americans are stocking in their kitchen pantries. In 2000, out of 100 common food items, peanut butter came in fourth, with jars in 83 percent of kitchens. Only eggs, granulated sugar, and flour ranked higher. This may explain how we Americans manage to consume more than 700 million pounds of peanut butter annually!
Now we can feel more comfortable about eating our PB & J's because, although peanut butter is high in fat and calories, the fat is monounsaturated, raising its heart-healthy benefits. Peanut Butter also contains high levels of fiber, folate, vitamin E, magnesium, potassium, beta-sitosterol and resveratrol, all part of a heart-healthy diet profile.
Now that it's time to start packing school lunches again, Fischer & Wieser wants to add some spice to your PB & J! Our website will feature a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich of the month, each and every month through the end of school, featuring good old peanut butter and a Fischer & Wieser jam, jelly, preserve or marmalade, plus other innovative and enticing ingredients. Enjoy!!
Featured Recipe
GRILLED CHEESE, PEANUT BUTTER, & JELLY SANDWICH
Calling all Grilled Cheese Sandwich Lovers! Fischer & Wieser presents the ultimate version of this diner classic. We've combined the tangy, delicate flavor of muenster cheese with creamy peanut butter and our tantalizing Cinnamon-Orange-Tomato Preserves. Plain old cheese will never suffice again.
2 slices honey wheat bread
3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
2 thin slices muenster cheese
2 heaping tablespoons Fischer & Wieser's
Cinnamon-Orange-Tomato Preserves (On sale this month!)
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
Place one slice of the bread on cutting board and spread evenly with the peanut butter. Lay the cheese slices on the peanut butter, then spread the jelly on top of the cheese. Press the remaining slice of bread on the jelly gently. Set aside. Heat an 8-inch skillet over medium heat. Using a pastry brush, baste each side of the sandwich with the melted butter, using all of it. Place the sandwich in heated skillet and cook until the bottom side is browned, about 3 minutes. Using a metal spatula, flip the sandwich and brown the opposite side until cheese is melted, another 2-3 minutes. Place on serving plate and cut in half diagonally. Makes one sandwich.
Did You Know?!
The world's largest peanut butter and jelly sandwich measured 40 feet long. It contained 150 pounds of peanut butter and 50 pounds of jelly. It was created November 6, 1993 in Peanut, Pennsylvania.
The average American child will eat 1,500 peanut butter & jelly sandwiches by the time he or she graduates from high school.
When making a PB&J sandwich, 96% of people put the peanut butter on before the jelly.
Americans eat enough peanut butter in a year to make over 10 billion peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! (Estimating 2 tablespoons peanut butter per sandwich.)
Jelly is a mixture of fruit juice and sugar that is clear and firm enough to hold its shape.
Other sweet spreads, like jam, are made from crushed or chopped fruit. Jam holds its shape, but is less firm than jelly. When jams are made from a mixture of fruits they are usually called conserves, especially when they contain citrus fruits, nuts, raisins or coconut.
Preserves are made of small, whole fruits or pieces of fruits in a clear, thick, slightly gelled syrup.
Marmalades are soft, transparent fruit jellies that contain small pieces of fruit or citrus peel.
Fruit butters are made from fruit pulp cooked with sugar until thickened.
Fischer & Wieser Specialty Foods' first product in 1969 was Estella Wieser's Old Fashioned Peach Preserves.
In fact, the word "jelly" comes from the French word "gelée" which means to congeal.
The world's first known book of recipes, Of Culinary Matters, written by the Roman gastronome Marcus Gavius Apicius in the first century, includes recipes for fruit preserves.
Marmalade is thought to have been created in 1561 by the physician to Mary, Queen of Scots, when he mixed orange and crushed sugar to keep her seasickness at bay.
Jelly is more popular among kids, while preserves are favored by adults.
Consumers who regularly purchase jam, jelly and preserves usually buy two flavors to have at home.
In the U.S. approximately 1 billion pounds of fruit spreads are produced annually.
April 2 - National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
Georgia is the #1 peanut producing state, but did you know that Texas is #2.
It takes almost 850 peanuts to make an 18 oz jar of peanut butter!
By law, any product labeled "peanut butter" in the United States must be at least 90% peanuts.
November is Peanut Butter Lover's Month
Americans consume 700 million pounds or 3.3 pounds per person, of peanut butter per year..that's enough to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon.
Nearly half of the U.S. peanut crop is made into peanut butter each year.
*Some facts reprinted with permission from the Alabama Peanut Producers Association and the International Jelly and Preserve Association.
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