Further Antedating of "Peanut Butter"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I'm not sure what the distinction is between the 2 July 1897 "peanut butter" that the OED puts in square brackets and the later "peanut butter" that is accepted as a full-fledged 24 October 1897 example, but America's Historical Newspapers has "peanut butter" in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 21 March 1897.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: 18-day antedating of "peanut butter"

The OED has a parenthetical 2nd July 1897 quotation, followed by a non-parenthetical 24th October 1897.

Here's a 6th October 1897 in The Advocate of Topeka, Kan. (Page 14, Image 14).

A recipe for peanut sandwiches made from your own roasted and grated peanuts ends:

[Begin excerpt]
Or you may buy for these a peanut butter.
[End excerpt]

Chronicling America: http://goo.gl/CCCU6X

Hugo

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