l, not -l wrote:
> On 6-Sep-2012, zxcvbob > wrote:
>
>> Why is it so hard to find? Every brand has some form of sugar as the
>> 2nd ingredient after peanuts. Even the "natural" pb's are "peanuts,
>> sugar, palm oil, and salt" (they took out some of the good peanut oil
>> and replaced it with nasty greasy palm oil) I guess it's natural
>> because they used sugar instead of HFCS, and palm oil instead of
>> hydrogenated soybean oil. Sweetened PB works just fine for cooking, but
>> not for eating on a cracker. I used to make my own, (the new blender
>> made me think of it again) the trick will be finding salted dry roasted
>> peanuts without a lot of MSG and yeast extract and dextrose and crap
>> added.
>
> I recommend Smucker's Natural, I prefer the chunky variety. "Ingredients:
> Peanuts, contains 1% or less of salt."
>
> When bought, there is oil separation and it needs to be stirred vigorously
> to reincorporate. Refrigeration tends to keep separation from reocurring.


Thanks, I will look for it. Meanwhile, I bought a pound of unsalted
dry-roasted peanuts to grind. Not sure how much salt to add (about 4.5
grams?) it probably needs to be that really fine popcorn salt.

Bob