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Alexandra Brown asked this question about Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse:
Currently reading 'Shadows of the Workhouse' I've just read a bit about spreading peanut butter - I wasn't aware of peanut butter being known in Britain until fairly recently ie. it came over from USA. I first tasted it (and loved it immediately) in the early 60s when I lived amongst Americans in West Africa. Can anyone put me right on this? I'd love the author Jennifer Worth to comment.
^ http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... has an interesting and well written article on the American history of peanut butter.

My hunch is that calorie…morehttp://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... has an interesting and well written article on the American history of peanut butter.

My hunch is that calorie-rich peanut butter may have been first shipped from the USA to Britain during the Second World War, as part of the war effort. US food shipments were crucial to Allied success. Contact the Imperial War Museum in London. IWM London (Telephone: +44 (0)20 7416 5000). They'll have someone who, unlike me, knows for sure.

I own a copy of a British book, published in 1951, the year of the Festival of Britain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... which contains (amongst many other recipes), fifteen(!) different recipes for sandwiches containing ‘pea-nut’ butter. Well worth hunting out if you’re ever out of ideas for sandwich fillings.
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