I Too am a great Lover of this Ground Legume. I marvel at it's delicacy and usefulness, and lamented at the fact that
real Peanut Butter (without sugar and additives) would alwyas separate. It became a cumbersome chore to try to stir it back together
leading to bent knives, forks, and spoons, and at least one burned up blender!
However I only recently discovered an old-timey peanut butter stirrer and am now in peanut butter heaven!
http://witmerproducts.com/pbutter.htmlJohn G Kellogg was a medical doctor , he practiced holistic health & a vegetarian life style...
he headed the Battle Creek Sanitarium , Del mentions.
Course we mostly know the name from Kellogg Cereals , Corn Flakes being among his first .
He introduced Peanut butter for patients with poor teeth.
My Dear Major2 - you are quite correct! and No Offense to you, but I must offer this bit of a rant about Kellog:
Medicine at the time was not much better than witchcraft and magic. It is important to remember, for example, that at this time the accepted "cure" for Tuberculosis was a stay in one of the numerous "clinics" in the Rocky Mountains, where patients were forced to sleep on open-air porches no matter how cold because it was felt that the particularly "clean and cold mountian air" cured them.
In Fact, it was the tail wagging the dog. The physiology of M. tuberculosis requires high levels of oxygen, thus it generally lives in the lungs . But Merely living for an extended period at any altitude above 7,000 feet meant that the oxygen levels were so reduced that the Tuberulosis bacterium would go dormant, and thus the patient was apparently "cured". In some cases the dormancy would last, in others the disease would re-ocurr, but sleeping out-of-doors in the cold made no difference except to cause many patients to die of exposure or pneumonia.
With that in mind, For all the "good" he did, Kellog was also a megalomaniac who stole ideas and complete intellectual properties from his
slaves employees and
subjects partners. There is a great deal of reading available on the topic.
Whilst he claimed his methods and practices were "Facts" based on "Science" they were actaully unproven hypotheses and Kellog was far too impatient to actually employ the Scientific Method. Instead he, along with a few others , cobbled together quite a number
of quack medical gadgets that actually killed many of his patients. Kellog also killed more patients with bogus "dietary cures" instead of treating the actual disease.
All patients and staff, no matter what their condition or predisposition, were require to eat his mandated vegetarian diet in the Kellog Dining Hall, and after each meal, all attending (whether fit and able or not) were required to "take the air" for an hour or so in a mandatory promenade around the open air plaza on the roof of the dining hall - no matter what the weather. There are numerous photos of this available on the web.
Anyone who disagreed with his unproven concepts or even attempted to engage him in a scientific debate or who proposed an actual experiment with "controls" and documentation of results was dismissed by Kellog as a "raving lunatic and unbeliever" who was unworthy of his time.
sorry for the rant. ( BTW I also rant about Edison :-( )
I now return you to the fascinating discussion of "Peanut Butter, It's Life And Times In The Old West"
to be followed by monographs yet to come on such topics as "Peanut Butter - Kill or Cure" ;
"Favorite Peanut Butters Of The Gunfighters" ; "Peanut Butter Vs The Cattlemen"; and
" Did Peanut Butter Kill Billy The Kid?"
yhs
prof marvel