Want a cross between peanut butter cookies and homemade bread? If so, a hundred-year-old recipe for Peanut Butter Bread may be just the recipe for you.
Here is the original recipe:
And, here is the recipe updated for modern cooks:
Peanut Butter Bread
2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup milk
2 eggs
Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour a loaf pan.
In a mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add peanut butter, milk, and eggs.; beat until well mixed. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean. May be served warm or cold.
The hundred-year-old recipe called for 2 “rounded” teaspoons baking powder. I used 2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder – and that worked well.
I used less salt than called in the original recipe. One teaspoon of salt seemed like a lot for a loaf of bread, so I reduced it to 1/2 teaspoon.
The old recipe says that this bread is best when it is a day old. In my opinion, the bread was good the day after I made it – though it also was good shortly after I took it out of the oven.
A Hundred Years Ago 
Great recipe!
I like how easy this recipe is to make.
Oh yum!!!
It’s tasty.
That’s a keeper Sheryl.
It’s nice to hear that this is a recipe that you might make.
Very interesting! I’ve never heard of this. I’m not a peanut butter fan, but I’d still like to try this one out.
Thanks for sharing an unusual recipe with us!
I think that commercially-produced peanut butter was a relatively new food in the early 1900s, and it is interesting to see how it is used in hundred-year-old recipes.
Those old recipes keep surprising me with their unique ways of being creative in cooking. Nice way to have a quick snack for school children!
Yes, I can also picture them serving peanut butter bread as a snack for children.
This looks so tasty. A great way of using peanut butter.
It is a good way to use peanut butter.
Oh yum! Have to make this one.
I think that you’ll like it.
I have never heard of that. I’ll bet kids would love it.
Kids who like peanut butter would like it.
Wow, this sounds good. Is it a denser and moister type of bread like banana bread?
Yes, it is a fairly dense and moist quick bread.
Will try this. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I think that you’ll like it.