We are having a family breakfast and the debate came up. Do you butter the toast before putting on the peanut butter? Or do you just put the peanut butter straight on your toast?
We are having a family breakfast and the debate came up. Do you butter the toast before putting on the peanut butter? Or do you just put the peanut butter straight on your toast?
Bread is coarse and crumbly. Jam is gooey and wet. Surely butter makes it less likely for the jam to stay on. I always assumed it was just for flavour. My grandma used to do butter toast with just a sprinkle of sugar on top, so I never even considered that butter was there for a functional purpose.
Butter on peanut butter is just weird, though, unless you’re buttering before toasting. But then peanut butter is a recent import here, so maybe it’s an old fashioned thing in the places that cultural imperialisted peanut puree unto us. Who’s to say.
I thought that as well, but I found that using butter on bread with homemade jam, the butter acts as a consistency to make it so it doesn’t slide all over the slice. when you do it without it just rolls