When is National Peanut Butter And Jelly Day?
Sunday April 2ndNational Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, a year-round celebration, honors a classic food favorite. By the time they graduate from high school, the average American will have eaten over 2000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Peanut butter was considered a delicacy in the early 1900s and was only available in New York City's finest tea rooms.. A recipe "in a May 1896 article published in the Good Housekeeping magazine, a homemaker was encouraged to use a meat grinder to make peanut butter and spread the word on bread." Table Talk, the culinary magazine Table Talk's same year, published a "peanut butter sandwich recipe" in June.
In 1901, Julia Davis Chandler is believed to have made the first mention of peanut butter (or paste) paired with jelly on bread in the United States. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics has her article published. The cost of peanut butter has decreased in the late 1920s, and the sandwich became extremely popular with children.
Both peanut butter and jelly were part of the US soldiers' military ration list during World War II, according to the Peanut Board.
The J.M. Smucker Co. introduced Goober, a jarred product that combined alternating vertical stripes of peanut butter and jelly in 1968..
