Peanut butter cookies – United States
Peanut butter cookies are made of butter, eggs, milk, flour, sugar, and salt and, of course, its distinctive feature is the presence of peanut butter as the main ingredient. The creation of this cookie began in the United States in the 1910s, and there is even a National Peanut Butter Cookie Day, which is observed in the United States every June 12th.
The history of peanut butter cookies can be traced back as far as the 18th – 19th centuries. Long ago, the cotton crop, which was the most well-known proponent of the peanut, was severely harmed by the boll weevil. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), an American agricultural extension educator from Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute, developed 105 peanut recipes from numerous cookbooks, agricultural bulletins, and other sources and offered three recipes for peanut cookies. Early peanut butter cookies had no fork marks and were either thinly rolled and cut into forms or dropped and formed into balls.