Peanuts and Presidents
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st Popula Mo r Pe an The Jumbo u Virginia Peanut is t SAMPLE the most common Peanuts and variety in America. What do George Washington and Jimmy Carter have in Presidents common? They were both U.S. Presidents, southern farmers, and peanut lovers! Our nation’s first president was a successful Nut vs Pea farmer before he took office. He experimented with growing grains for export, and also promoted crop Peanuts are really rotation. Carter took over his father’s peanut farm and warehouse business upon his death in 1953. He ran “peas” that look like nuts, and are not a prosperous business, becoming involved in Georgia politics at the same time. He was our 39th president. really nuts! Peanut S Washington’s White Using a crock pot, simmer 1 cup peanuts in waterou untilp House Favorite soft. Scoop out the peanuts and skin. Chop or mash the Peanut soup and Virginia peanuts into very fine pieces. In a saucepan over an spoon bread were two dishes electric hot plate, bring 1 quart milk to a boil. Add the enjoyed by George and peanuts and cook slowly for 20 minutes. Remove several spoonfuls of the Martha Washington. Try peanut milk from the crock pot and mix with 2 teaspoons flour to form a some warm soup on a cold February President’s Day! Cut out paste. Stir into the saucepan, adding 2 teaspoons butter and salt and pepper ✂ to taste. Warm and serve. Peanuts Arrive in America Peanuts came from Africa with the arrival of Fre slaves. They were used as a cheap and nutritious sh Blender food for the slaves during the voyage to Pour 2 cups dry roasted peanutsPe intoan theut bowl Bu tof a food Soft and processor or blender. Pulse or chop until the nutst areer finely America. Africans called a Crunchy Sa chopped. Add 3 to 5 tablespoons of oil, one spoon at a time, lad peanut a “goober” and until the peanut mixture begins to form a ball. Add 1/4 Peel and slice two bananas and arrange the discovered it would grow teaspoon salt and blend a few extra seconds. Scrape bowl slices on a bed of lettuce leaves. Sprinkle with easily in the American and spread. diced peanuts and serve with a light coating south, where most worked of mayonnaise. as slaves on plantations. Plentiful Peanut Foods Peanut Inherits the Crown George Washington Carver figured out more Cotton reigned as the king of crops for than 100 ways to prepare peanuts as food many years in the south, but a tiny bug, the boll weevil, including peanut cheese, peanut butter, and destroyed entire fields of cotton peanut ice cream. He was even able to create in the 1880s. George Washington a mock chicken dish out of peanuts! Carver, an American scientist, was an expert on peanuts, and Edible Seeds encouraged farmers to burn off The peanut inside the shell is really the seed used their ruined cotton crop and for planting a new peanut plant. Some farmers replant peanuts. simply crack the outer shell of the peanut and plant it shell and all! 34 ©Carole Marsh/Gallopade International/800-536-2GET/www.gallopade.com/Here & Now Series–Classroom Cooking.