Recipes for the peanut butter lover!

Today is National Peanut Butter Lovers’ Day.  Grab your favorite jar of peanut butter and try out one of these recipes.

USED 3-1-15 Reece's Peanut Butter Tarts - Heavenly Delights

 

Reece’s Peanut Butter Tarts from Heavenly delights.

USED 3-1-15 Peanut Butter Sandwich - Keepers of the Hearth

Peanut Butter Sandwich from Keepers of the hearth : based on records, ledgers and shared recipes of the families connected with Mill Prong House, Edinborough Road, Hoke County, North Carolina.

USED 3-1-15Peanut Butter Ice Cream Balls - Best of the Best

Peanut Butter Ice Cream Balls from Best of the best from North Carolina : selected recipes from North Carolina’s favorite cookbooks.

USED 3-1-15 Peanut butter roll-ups - The Charlotte Cookbook

Peanut Butter Roll-Ups from The Charlotte cookbook.

USED 3-1-15 Our Homemade Peanut Butter-Our Own Kitchen Survival Kit

Our Homemade Peanut Butter from Our own kitchen survival kit.

USED 3-1-15 Peanut Butter Brownies-The Pantry Shelf

Peanut Butter Brownies from The Pantry shelf : 1907-1982.

USED 3-1-15 Cream of Peanut Butter Soup - Bone Appetit

Cream of Peanut Butter Soup from A book of favorite recipes.

 

In High Point, Langston Hughes made sales, not waves

“Our engagement here in High Point has been most pleasant. This morning, I read to the various colored schools, and at the white high school. Sold gangs of books….”
–From a letter from Langston Hughes to Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP (Dec. 8, 1931).

As noted by Nicholas Graham, Hughes’ eventful stay in Chapel Hill has been well chronicled. Less so his subsequent visit to High Point. I haven’t been able to find an account of his appearance at “the white high school” (High Point High), but the student newspaper at (white) High Point College covered what seems to have been a thoroughly uninflammatory reading at (black) William Penn High School:

“Langston Hughes, called by some ‘the greatest living negro poet,’… explained his compositions by telling the stories and incidents which gave rise to them….

“[His] love poems expressed the colored peoples’ life of romance. Most of the poems were short, with a clever sense of realism and emotion.

“Spiritual or religious poems…expressed the negroes’ emotions. Just opposite his spirituals are his ‘blues’ poems. They represent the emotional life of the negro, dealing with his troubles and loneliness….

“Perhaps his best known poem is ‘The Negro Mother,’in which he pays tribute to the colored race of all past ages and predicts for ‘the colored children’ happier and more worthy achievements.

“[Professor of religion] Dr. P. E. Lindley…reports a very enjoyable and delightful evening. He considers Hughes a very prominent rising negro scholar and poet.”