Cooking Recipe Peanut Butter
Recipe Ingredients
Directions
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Spread the nuts in a jelly roll or
roasting pan and bake them for 20 minutes, shaking the pan now and
then; they should be *light* gold. Cool the peanuts, then proceed in
either of the following ways:
CREAMY: Put half the nuts in the container of a food processor (or
jar of a blender) with half of the salt, sugar and oil. Process to a
creamy consistency (stopping the action and scraping down the sides
of the container often wih a spatula), then empty the peanut butter
into a bowl and repeat with the remaining nuts, salt, sugar and oil.
CHUNKY: Use the processor to chop about one third of the nuts
coarsely; se aside, then process the remaining nuts, salt, sugar and
oil to a creamy consistency. Stir together with the chopped nuts.
Or use a blender as follows: Do half of the nuts at a time and
scrape down he sides of the container and scrape under the blades
several times. Process to as crunchy a texture as you wish. It's not
necessary to chop part of the nuts first for blender chunky peanut
butter.
TO STORE: Store refrigerated, in a covered jar, where it will keep
for about two weeks.