Peanut Butter Cookies

The history of peanut butter cookies, just like the history of peanut butter, can be traced back to one man— the great African American hero George Washington Carver. When the boll weevil wiped out the American cotton industry in the early 1900s, Carver encouraged poverty-stricken farmers to diversify their crops by planting peanuts as well as cotton. In conjunction with this advice, in 1916 he produced a pamphlet entitled, How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Co