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Then, because I’m such a peanut butter lover, I decided to combine the fluff and peanut butter together to make them fluffernutter. Instead of making them more like sticks (cutting the crackers into quarters), I decided to keep them as squares. It’s a cutting board, work surface, and all-around handy thing to have out to protect the countertops. We keep a large cutting board on the counter. It was sitting next to the fluff on the cutting board. I had just finished making the PB&B Ritz-wiches – I need to go tag them on social! – and the peanut butter was just staring at me. But I didn’t really want to copy that idea and that’s where I was headed. Because I saw this cute idea on Pinterest for some s’mores bites. I know, surprising, right? Graham crackers, marshmallows, chocolate. So, initially this was supposed to be a s’mores type recipe. There’s Durkee-Mower, Kraft has their own version, and there’s an off brand one I’ve never heard of Solo marshmallow crème. Especially since there’s only three manufacturers of marshmallow fluff.
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Sadly, I can’t give you the whole story, but it’s still interesting. Sometimes it’s really interesting to find out where the things we eat comes from. The ad firm coined the term fluffernutter, which is trademarked by Durkee-Mower, to market the popular sandwich. Durkee-Mower hired a ad firm to try to market the sandwich, and their product, more effectively. Not sure why such fiber rich bread, but that’s the first publication.īut it wasn’t until the 1960’s when the term fluffernutter came into being. Basically, when marshmallow cream was invented, Emma Curtis (a distant relative of Paul Revere) create a Liberty Sandwich which was the cream and peanut butter on oat or barley bread. Of course, the history of the fluffernutter sandwich isn’t much more interesting. Inquiring minds want to know!! Heck, there’s even a festival called What the Fluff that’s held in Somerville. I mean, it’s such a unique and interesting food item. And no elaboration on the marshmallow cream from the Fannie Famer cookbook. No explanation of how and why Query created the original recipe. Fluff finally hit the stores in 1917 as Toot Sweet Marshmallow Fluff but, as you know, the Toot Sweet was eventually dropped and it has been called Marshmallow Fluff after the 1940s. I’m telling you, this is a sordid history report!įinally, Query sold his recipe to Durkee and Mower. Then fast forward a few years later, and that’s where we find Archibald Query who started selling it door to door. Fannie Farmer has a recipe for a marshmallow paste in the 1896 cookbook that’s in the cake filling section. I’m not sure how we get from that French dude to Fannie Farmer, but that’s the next stop on our history wagon for flutternutter. Heck, it’s even one of the many ingredients in Ricola lozenges. Because, well, the roots of the marshmallow plant, yes there is such a thing, is used to help soothe sore throats. Some French dude made a lozenge type thing that was used to soothe sore throats. I still have no idea how marshmallow cream, fluff, or whatever you call it came about. But marshmallows? I’m still on the fence about that. Especially when it’s paired with bananas or chocolate or both. Because, as I’ve already stated, I’m addicted to peanut butter. Yes, this recipe includes peanut butter, too. Marshallow fluff and peanut butter are sandwiched between graham crackers and dipped in chocolate. Fluffernutter Bites are a cross between a s’more and a fluffernutter sandwich.