Peanut Butter Cookie Day on June 12. Today it's America's favorite cookie, it exist b'coz of George Washington Carver. Most people are familiar with peanut butter for use on sandwiches, while peanut butter cookies are yummy snacks Homemade peanut butter cookies would just not be right without the traditional forked crisscrosses on them.
George Washington Carver(Alabama’s American agricultural extension educator) was the most well know promoter of the peanut. Carver compiled 105 peanut recipes from various cookbooks, agricultural bulletins and other different sources. In 1916, he put together a Research Bulletin called How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption. Included in this Research Bulletin were three recipes for peanut cookies calling for crushed or chopped peanuts as one of its ingredients.
The first peanut butter cookies recipe was printed in 1932 by the Schenectady Gazette, but the recipe is likely existed before that. The printed recipe called for the dough to be thinly rolled and cut into shapes or small pieces dropped and then made into balls with a crisscrossed fork marks on the top. Even today peanut butter cookies are made with this iconic pattern.
