My favorite trick was to use natural peanut butter and mix the honey in.
Natural honey, if left to sit, will form a centimeter or two of oil on top. Open the jar, pour the oil out. Warm honey (for about 20 seconds in microwave) ans pour in the jar. Mix with a knife (easier to cut and move around) until creamy. It doesn’t separate, and tastes, well, it tastes just about as good as anything can taste that is made up of fat, carbos and protein. It is a bit thick, so room temperature is preferably, if not warm.
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Personally I’d rather eat the bomb. Savoury and sweet should not be mixed! I couldn’t cope with the syrup and bacon combination when I was in San Francisco wither Blechhhh!
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The minute I get home I’ve got to fry up some bacon and put syrup on it. Haven’t had that in years! Mmm.
Also, grape jelly is okay, but you really want homemade strawberry preserves.
The bread must be thick, soft and white.
The peanut butter must be sweet and creamy American style (pref. Jif, Peter Pan or Skippy), spread really thick - half-a-centimetre deep. I prefer super-crunchy
The “jam” should be grape jelly (pref. Smuckers), spread to the same depth.
NO BUTTER OR MARGARINE.
Slap another piece of soft white bread on top, bite down, and enter pure bliss.
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Aha! That must be it! Here, we have no kid-culture of PB&J sandwiches, but of course I had heard about the concept when I was a kid, and so with gleeful anticipation I tried to compile one. With tastebuds all atremble with anticipation, I sank the fangs in and…
…meh. I really wanted to like it. Just… didn’t. Maybe that’s why - ratshit recipe. And I must add that my sense of taste has not been ravaged by childhood years of Vegemite consumption, so my gastronomic credibility is still intact (at least to that extent).
– all peanut butter should be crunchy, if not chunky.
– all bread should be whole-grain.
– all jams / jellies / preserves should be made by grandma (not necessarily my or your grandma, but at least, someone’s grandma.)
– jam (or jelly) is a most respectable addition to a pb sammich in any situation.
– substitution of jam / jelly with banana &/or honey as an addition to a pb sammich should only be made when one has been a really really good boy or girl of late, and is deserving of a treat.
– a peanut butter sammich with no additions should be eaten only when poverty or bad behaviour remove the option of tasty goodness.
[QUOTE=jjimm] cough Read my earlier post. cough
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Ooops, I completely missed it, but since I independently said almost exactly the same as you, that just proves you’re squarely in the right, doesn’t it?
I might check this out as I’m planning to visit Oxford to help with your crayfish problem at some time in the future.
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Bacon is for grilling and then slapping on bread followed by a splodge of spicy brown sauce.
It is NOT to be sullied by syrup of any kind whatsoever. :eek:
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But aha! Your brown sauce is a sweet syrup by any other name, and one based on tamarinds at that. Quod erat demonstrandum, you are wrong as a wrong thing.
Proper maple syrup, by the way, isn’t all that sweet. The best stuff you can get over here (outside of a deli) is the Canadian stuff available in M&S. Avoid all that imported Aunt Jemima artificial nonsense.
It is the best validation a man could want.
(And if you fancy a crayfishing partner, give us a shout.)
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(And if you fancy a crayfishing partner, give us a shout.)
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I might well take you up on that; do you know the good spots to catch them?
The best bread for a PB&J is challa - fresh challa, not the kind that comes in a bag. Although there’s also something to be said for fresh pita.
Incidentally, if your bread isn’t that fresh, you can use a sandwich maker - toasted sandwiches filled with hot peanut butter and jelly can be delicious, if a bit runny.
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Wait, what do you Brits consider peanut butter, if not the American creamy version?
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Peanut butter is available in smooth, crunchy and whole nut varieties here; the only ones labelled as ‘creamy’ are imported (and they’re more or less the same as our ‘smooth’.
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I might well take you up on that; do you know the good spots to catch them?
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I’m being given a map - it’s a bend in the river, somewhere in the middle of Port Meadow, near the Perch pub. Sounds lovely.