Finally, a popular sandwich leaning towards the sweet side. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is a favorite lunch box staple. The peanut butter — chunky or super smooth and thick — offers its saltiness to pair well with fruit jelly (strawberry is a favorite). This sandwich, also known as PB&J, can be eaten as is or lightly toasted.
The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is as all-American as the hamburger and hotdog sandwiches. Of course its history is rooted on the convergence of its ingredients’ inventions — the peanut butter in a jar, the sweet jelly, and the pre-sliced white bread. As soon as all three are available, the fun with this popular sandwich begins.
A bit of a background from The Nibble online magazine for specialty food: “Peanut butter was invented in 1890, but wasn’t marketed broadly until 1922, when a new churning process achieved stability and longer shelf life (see the history of peanut butter).”
The making of the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwiches rely heavily on the peanut butter. So buy the best jar of peanut butter you can afford. Select whether you want a creamy, smooth peanut butter or something with more texture, like coarse chopped peanuts stirred into the mix.
Next is to determine what kind of jelly you like for the day. It can be grape jelly which counters the richness of peanut butter with its tangy sweet flavor. For variations of this classic popular sandwich, you can add banana to the peanut butter or use fruit preserves, marmalades, and jellies.
The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is an all-American classic and it remains in their domain since this popular sandwich is not on the list of the British Sandwich Association. The list features mostly savory sandwiches.
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