How to Make A Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich
“How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich”
At some point in your life, you may have experienced real hunger. Not just “nibble on this or that” until dinner is ready, but genuine gut-puckering starvation. You enter your house thinking, “Gosh! drinking my own blood could in fact be a solution to my problem!” Before beginning any acts of self- cannibalism, you head into the kitchen with hope that there will something to eat that actually tastes good. Upon opening the cabinet doors, you spot the one food that you know never goes bad, satisfies hunger, nourishes small children, and might survive a nuclear blast on its sheer caloric content alone: peanut butter! Anyone who has ever spent time with kids knows that if you combine basic ingredients with a few simple steps, you too can make a delightful peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Obviously, peanut butter will play an important role in this process. Choosing good quality peanut butter used to be a relatively mindless activity. Either your grind the nuts yourself (and honestly, who has time for that?) or you go to a supermarket and buy a jar. “Jif” and “Skippy” used to be the standards, and they typically come in two varieties: “creamy” and “chunky.” Please note: sometimes “creamy” tastes a little like peanut-flavored Vaseline, which will almost always result in a substandard sandwich. “Chunky” has the advantage of tasting somewhat like nuts. There are now lots of health food varieties available for purchase, but think carefully before you buy organic peanut butter. The actual nut solid has usually separated from the nut oil, and you will need the arm muscles of Hercules to stir them back together into a usable paste. But once you have a jar of peanut butter, you are ready to move on. Peanut butter is an incredibly lonely food without its lovely, sweet sister, jelly. Some people are confused by “jelly” and “jam,” or preserves. For our purposes here, there isn’t enough of a difference
At some point in your life, you may have experienced real hunger. Not just “nibble on this or that” until dinner is ready, but genuine gut-puckering starvation. You enter your house thinking, “Gosh! drinking my own blood could in fact be a solution to my problem!” Before beginning any acts of self- cannibalism, you head into the kitchen with hope that there will something to eat that actually tastes good. Upon opening the cabinet doors, you spot the one food that you know never goes bad, satisfies hunger, nourishes small children, and might survive a nuclear blast on its sheer caloric content alone: peanut butter! Anyone who has ever spent time with kids knows that if you combine basic ingredients with a few simple steps, you too can make a delightful peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Obviously, peanut butter will play an important role in this process. Choosing good quality peanut butter used to be a relatively mindless activity. Either your grind the nuts yourself (and honestly, who has time for that?) or you go to a supermarket and buy a jar. “Jif” and “Skippy” used to be the standards, and they typically come in two varieties: “creamy” and “chunky.” Please note: sometimes “creamy” tastes a little like peanut-flavored Vaseline, which will almost always result in a substandard sandwich. “Chunky” has the advantage of tasting somewhat like nuts. There are now lots of health food varieties available for purchase, but think carefully before you buy organic peanut butter. The actual nut solid has usually separated from the nut oil, and you will need the arm muscles of Hercules to stir them back together into a usable paste. But once you have a jar of peanut butter, you are ready to move on. Peanut butter is an incredibly lonely food without its lovely, sweet sister, jelly. Some people are confused by “jelly” and “jam,” or preserves. For our purposes here, there isn’t enough of a difference