Peanut Butter Bread - No Yeast Retro Recipe

Peanut Butter bread, you just have to try this retro trendy recipe! The baking smell alone will drive you crazy and there is no yeast needed!

Peanut butter bread has been an overnight internet sensation! Well, almost overnight... except the recipe was first published in 1913 by a Canadian flour mill. The mill collected recipes from the community and compiled them in a collection called "A Guide to Good Cooking" by 5 Roses flour.

The book became popular around the time of the great depression. Food shortages made ingredients difficult to find and expensive, so housewives needed to be thrifty. Those were the days of making delicious food from basic ingredients. 

Fast forward nearly one hundred years and this recipe has been brought out of retirement. I'm not sure if the popularity is due to a resurgence of cooking during our COVID-19 isolation. Perhaps it's because bakers flour and yeast are difficult to find at the moment, or it may be because Greg & Friends featured it on one of their YouTube Videos and it struck a chord with viewers.

It doesn't matter why there has been a sudden boost in popularity, the important thing is it's definitely time for a new generation to taste the Peanut Butter Bread. When you do I think you will have an appreciation for the recipe. It's delicious and so simple to make, best of all there are so many variations you could make to the basic recipe.

Is it a Bread, Cake or Loaf

Before I tried this recipe I had no idea what to expect. Was it a bread, cake or loaf. Was it sweet or bready? When would you eat your peanut butter bread? Do you make a sandwich with it or add a frosting?

I couldn't get my head around it until I cooked and tasted the finished results. 

Here is what I discovered. 

So it's not bread, like a piece of sandwich bread. It's definitely not cake-like. The best way to think of this is like a banana loaf in texture. The flavour is very mild and only very slightly sweet. It has only a vague peanut flavour, almost like a vanilla-ish peanut butter loaf. 

Peanut Butter Bread - No Yeast Bread Ingredients

1. The first difference to a regular bread recipe is that it doesn't require Bakers Flour. This is great because in my local area we have a shortage of bakers flour at the moment.
2. Yeast is not needed for the recipe, baking powder is used as the raising agent.
3. Unlike a cake, butter isn't needed and nor are eggs required.

When and How to Eat Peanut Butter Bread

I think this would make a delicious light brunch treat. Serve the bread fresh from the oven, sliced and buttered would be perfect. 

If you wanted to be fancy, slice the cooked bread, then fry it in butter, toasting each side. Serve the toasted bread with sliced banana and maple syrup.

It would be equally nice as a sweet snack or lunchbox idea when the kids go back to school. 

Peanut Butter Bread Variations

There are a number of ways you can change this recipe up.

• Add ¾ cup milk choc chips
• Add ½ cup sultanas
• Sub half the sugar for honey
• Go totally rogue and replace the peanut butter with Homemade Nutella!! YUM!

Peanut Butter Bread - Method By Hand

1. Preheat oven to 160 C or 325 F.
2. Place all your dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and combine well by hand.
3. Add the milk and peanut butter to a jug and heat for 40 seconds.
4. Whisk the milk and peanut butter together in the jug until combined.
5. Pour the wet ingredients into the flour and mix them together.
6. Add the batter to a well-greased loaf tin and bake for 1 hour. Test with a skewer. (The loaf tin I use is below).

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If you're looking for another fabulous retro recipe, why not try my traditional Choko Chutney!

Or if it's brunch you're looking for there is always these amazing Cinnamon Scrolls!

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Julie

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