Enjoy some peanut butter and meat!

 As someone who used to make the boring vanilla ice cream mom bought when I was a kid more interesting by stirring peanut butter (and chocolate Nestle's Quik if we had some) into it, and as someone who now tops pancakes with a thin layer of peanut butter instead of syrup, I can't resist the temptation of a peanut butter cookbook! That's how I ended up with Peter Pan Peanut Butter Cook Book (1963). 

This book is not quite as wild as Jif's 1979 book, but it does have its moments. Honestly, my favorite things in this book are not the actual recipes, but the recommendations for how to gussy up other foods with a little Peter Pan.

Need some appetizers? Get the peanut butter!

Appetizers apparently really needed both peanut butter and some kind of pork, as the peanut butter is paired with bacon for the Bacon Pinwheels and Stuffed Celery Sticks (or Hog on a Log?), blended with deviled ham for the Deviled Ham Puffs, or used in an attempt to make Vienna sausages less sucky in the Meat Morsels. The book also offers Cheese Dillies with peanut butter, cheddar, and dill pickle juice if someone refuses to eat pork. 

I also love how appetizing the picture makes the Stuffed Celery Sticks seem-- like a cross section of the bottom half of a clay drain pipe clogged with sludge. Yum!

For those who love doctoring up canned goods, there's a soup suggestion.

Just mix Peter Pan into cream soup! Creamy peanut tomato! Cream of celery and peanut butter! The possibilities are... well, not endless. Just weird. And extra rich because we all know cream soup is not rich enough unless you fortify it.

If your mom won't let you have peanut butter as your sole protein because she thinks you will immediately DIE of a protein deficiency if you don't have meat at every meal, she might try some meat tricks. (Not that I know of any mothers like that...)

Peanut butter in the meat loaf! Peanut butter broiled onto the tops of hamburgers! Peanut butter grilled right onto the chicken! (Hell, throw some peanut butter on the grilled corn too if you're feeling wild and/or out of dairy butter.)

The end of the book has another of my very favorite things: pictures of vintage packaging!

Oh, yeah, baby! Show me some old peanut butter jars!

I know I'm not alone in my love for peanut butter, so I hope you enjoyed this too. And thank goodness I'm not as into peanut butter as some people are! I'm sure Peter Pan is glad that this peanut butter lover is a Skippy man. (You're welcome.)