Name: Nut Butter
Ingredients: 2 cups roasted nuts (peanuts, almonds, or your choice); ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt (optional); 1-2 tablespoons water or oil (optional)

Nut Butter

Ingredients

2 cups roasted nuts (peanuts, almonds, or your choice)
¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt (optional)
1-2 tablespoons water or oil (optional)

Directions

Prepare

Remove any chaff from the nuts.
Place the roasted nuts in a grinding mill or food processor.

Grind and finish

Grind the nuts until they form a smooth paste.
If desired, add salt and water or oil to achieve the desired consistency.
Store in a jar and use within a few weeks.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Roasted nuts: Provide the fat and oils that grind into a smooth, spreadable paste.
Water or oil: Loosens the paste, adjusting its consistency to be more spreadable or pourable.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.