Great Depression Recipe For Peanut Butter Bread Makes A Comeback Amid Coronavirus Lockdown!

One of the great things that has come out of the Coronavirus induced lockdown has been all the baking taking place. I don’t know about you but I’ve loved rediscovering old favourite recipes such as Peanut Butter Bread which looks to be making a comeback thanks to social media.

The recipe for this bread is said to hail from a Great Depression- era cookbook titled Five Roses Flour Cookbook that was first published in 1932. For some families it’s been a staple for generations and for others like me it’s a new recipe to inflict onto my unsuspecting family.

Fans of the bread have taken to social media to rave about it saying things like, “ Ran out of bread under lockdown so we made the (delicious) peanut butter bread!” “Boy oh boy will I be making this! Yours looks amazing,” and  “I’ve got this in the oven right now. I used almond milk so we’ll see how it goes!” 

Feel like trying this out yourself? Here’s the recipe. Let us know what you think.

Ingredients:

½ cup of peanut butter

2 cups of all-purpose flour

1/4 cup of sugar

4 teaspoons of baking powder

½ teaspoon of salt

1 1/3 cups of milk

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F

Mix dry ingredients together

Mix in milk, then add peanut butter

Pour mixture into greased loaf pan

Bake about 1 hour

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