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Looking For Peanut Butter Squares Recipe
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:26 pm
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:26 pm
Like the ones that were served to us as a school kids.... circa late 80s-early 90s in Terrebonne Parish is where I had them. They were about 1 1/2" square and a half inch thick with powdered sugar on top. Any help is appreciated.
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Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:34 pm to CHEDBALLZ
Yeah but they weren't creamy as I recall. They had a thick consistency- like they were made with crunchy peanut butter or graham crackers.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:40 pm to tigerinthebueche
These were not cruchy. It was more like a square piece of peanut butter. They made it on a baking sheet.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:45 pm to CHEDBALLZ
Yeah we obviously were eating the same cafeteria food. Guess everyone shared the same recipes in school 
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:47 pm to CHEDBALLZ
The wife (MHNBPF) says
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups commodity peanut butter or commodity almond butter
2 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
melt butter, peanut butter and brown sugar together (microwave works ok for this).
add confectioner's sugar and vanilla and mix well
pat into a 9X11 sheet pan.
cool and cut into squares sprinkle with powdered sugar.
remind kids to remember to eat their veggies.
Here come her opinions
School lunch programs in the south probably got more almond butter than peanut butter back then and if they got no peanut butter, they sure as heck didn't buy it, so your squares might have been made with almond butter.
Use commodity butter if possible - see comment about getting free almond butter and not buying stuff if you got it free.
remember to eat your veggies.
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups commodity peanut butter or commodity almond butter
2 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
melt butter, peanut butter and brown sugar together (microwave works ok for this).
add confectioner's sugar and vanilla and mix well
pat into a 9X11 sheet pan.
cool and cut into squares sprinkle with powdered sugar.
remind kids to remember to eat their veggies.
Here come her opinions
School lunch programs in the south probably got more almond butter than peanut butter back then and if they got no peanut butter, they sure as heck didn't buy it, so your squares might have been made with almond butter.
Use commodity butter if possible - see comment about getting free almond butter and not buying stuff if you got it free.
remember to eat your veggies.
This post was edited on 8/26/14 at 8:53 pm
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:50 pm to CHEDBALLZ
Stanislaus had them.
They were awesome.
They were awesome.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:50 pm to MeridianDog
To your wife
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:52 pm to MeridianDog
Thanks MD. Tell Mrs. Meridian Dog the Chedballz family thanks her.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:56 pm to BRgetthenet
quote:
Stanislaus had them.
They were awesome.
Well we know who the discipline case was in your family!!
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:58 pm to CHEDBALLZ
She says you are welcome CB.
She also says that recipes may show this with chocolate on top, but the school lunch programs never got free chocolate, so school lunch bars seldom had chocolate on them.
She also says that recipes may show this with chocolate on top, but the school lunch programs never got free chocolate, so school lunch bars seldom had chocolate on them.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 8:59 pm to MeridianDog
Was you wife a lunch lady?
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:03 pm to CHEDBALLZ
If that job paid a living wage, I'd do it. That'd be awesome.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:08 pm to CHEDBALLZ
She was director of Technical Services for the School Lunch Program for the State of Mississippi.
Mostly audited school compliance with USDA regulations for school lunch. Back then a $90,000,000.00 federal contract, administered by the department of education.
Over schools, headstart, youth prisons. She is a very smart lady who also knows how to make cookies.
When I beg just right, she will also make school lunch program yeast rolls for me, too.
Mostly audited school compliance with USDA regulations for school lunch. Back then a $90,000,000.00 federal contract, administered by the department of education.
Over schools, headstart, youth prisons. She is a very smart lady who also knows how to make cookies.
When I beg just right, she will also make school lunch program yeast rolls for me, too.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:11 pm to MeridianDog
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Theres a lady at the gas station where I buy my lunch that makes awesome yeast rolls from scratch. They come with the daily plate lunch.
quote:
yeast rolls
Theres a lady at the gas station where I buy my lunch that makes awesome yeast rolls from scratch. They come with the daily plate lunch.
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:15 pm to MeridianDog
Commodity peanut butter... never heard of such a thing. Is that like government cheese?
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:19 pm to OldHickory
Posted on 8/26/14 at 9:26 pm to OldHickory
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Is that like government cheese?
You got it correct.
Almond growers grow almonds and the government buys them, processes them into almond butter and gives it free to school lunch programs for child nutrition.
Butter
Cheese
Almonds for a while
Peanut butter for a while
Cherries for a while
Ground beef for a while
Depends on what surplus foods there are that year.
Most years, there is no surplus peanut butter.
May have some canned fruits and vegetables.
Commodity foods are the food service manager's best friend as they help hold costs down.
Items on federal commodity foods list for 2014:
fresh apples
canned fruit
orange juice
apple sauce
apricots
raisins
beef patties and ground beef (crumbled)
Chickens
Turkeys
Cheese cheese cheese
bulk eggs
Sunflower seed butter
peanut butter
flour
cornmeal
spaghetti noodles
vegetable oil
She says you don't always get what you want. Depends on your allotment. Sometimes you get a lot more than you want.
She makes a snicker doodle cookie from the Arkansas commodity food program recipe book that will knock your socks off.
This post was edited on 8/26/14 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:52 am to MeridianDog
I attended LA public schools from the late 70s through the early 90s...not one drop of almond butter was EVER served to us. Peanut butter by the ton, yes. PB squares, PB mixed w/honey to spread on fresh yeast rolls or biscuits (when the breakfast program finally took hold), PB sandwiches when cafeterias got fancy enough to offer a choice between hot & cold lunch.
But no almond butter in south LA.
But no almond butter in south LA.
Posted on 10/10/15 at 7:54 pm to hungryone
Same here.....
Just revisiting this thread because I have the envee for some peanut butter squares, off to Rouses I go.....
Just revisiting this thread because I have the envee for some peanut butter squares, off to Rouses I go.....
Posted on 10/11/15 at 8:35 am to ladytiger118
quote:
No Bake Chocolate PB Bars
Those look pretty. But, five ingredients? I know this chick that goes to the dollar store and buy chocolate bars and peanut butter. She melts the chocolate and mixes in the peanut butter puts in a pan and lets it chill.
At first I was like "DOLLAR STORE CHOCOLATE AND PEANUT BUTTER !!! WTH". She only does it at Thanksgiving and now makes extra for me to bring home. That stuff is good and is very easy according to her.
When I was in school, our peanut butter squares were the Rice Krispies type.
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