How to Make Peanut Butter
Ingredients
Directions
Grind and clean
Put the roasted peanuts through a mill to break up the shells and remove the red skins.
Use a hand bellows or windmill to blow away the shells.
Season and grind smooth
Add enough coarse sea salt to adhere to the peanut kernels.
Pass the salted kernels through the mill again, grinding until smooth and creamy.
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 peanuts
- Provide the fat and protein that form the base of the paste.
The step that matters
Grinding until smooth and creamy. Peanuts release their oil as they are ground, so grinding long enough lets the oil spread through the solids and create a smooth, spreadable paste. Stopping early leaves a grainy texture.
“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.
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