PEANUT BUTTER QUICK BREAD 1919
Ingredients: ½ cup wheat flour, 1½ cups rye flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, ½ cup peanut butter, ¼ cup sugar, 1 cup milk.
Directions: Sift together the first four dry ingredients. Cut the peanut butter into the dry ingredients with a fork, butter knife, or your fingers. Add sugar and milk. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Either eat warm from the oven or let sit for a day before slicing.
This bread is great in lunch boxes.
Highlights of 1919
- Prohibition, the 18th amendment, declared law (President Wilson’s veto was overridden)
- Oregon became the first state to tax gasoline (a penny a gallon)
- America’s first passenger flight and the first flight across Atlantic
- 2 million gallons of molasses flooded Boston, drowning 21 people
- Founding of the League of Nations
- Signing of the Treaty of Versailles to end WW I
- WWI soldiers welcomed home
- White Sox intentionally threw World Series
- Carl Sandburg won Pulitzer
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A great post! Some fact I didn’t know about this era, which was nice to learn. And the bread sounds really lovely I have to say 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, Harliqueen. I haven’t made that particular recipe but used to make a similar but more updated one. I need to find more time to cook! Love your name, by the way.
I love peanut butter, so stick it into anything, especially bread and I am good 😀
Thank you, I chose it because it’s my dog’s diva name! She is called Harliquin, but Harliqueen suits her much more 🙂
Oh, that’s sweet and perfect. I miss my doggie so. I feel the same way about pb.
Love that advertisement! My grandfather had a bakery and was well known for his bread and pizza dough.
I found the facts about 1919 extremely interesting. The one about the molasses is so bizarre. Frightening, awful and bizarre!
Thanks, Mae. How wonderful about your grandfather’s bakery. My mother always had restaurants and was known for her pies and hamburgers.