Today is Sunday June 12, 2011

National Peanut Butter Cookie Day

It's time to dig out Grandma's famous peanut butter cookie recipe: it’s National Peanut Butter Cookie Day!

Though peanut butter has been around since the time of the Aztecs, peanut butter cookies did not become an American favorite until the eariy 1900s. In 1916, George Washington Carver began to promote the peanut and its many uses. He even published three peanut butter cookie recipes in his research bulletin entitled "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption."

However, it wasn't until 1932 that the iconic waffle-like fork marks were added to peanut butter cookies. It was the Schenectady Gazette that published the cookie recipe that called for adding the fork marks. Today, those marks are universally found on peanut butter cookies!

Make a batch of delicious peanut butter cookies for your family to enjoy on National Peanut Butter Cookie Day!

Today is also Red Rose Day & Tony Awards

June is Gay Pride Month & Great Outdoors Month

This week is National Fishing and Boating Week

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History for June 11  1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. 1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began. 1935 - At age 17, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her first songs. The two songs were "Love and Kisses" and "I'll Chase the Blues Away." 1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. 1989 - Graceland opened the Elvis Presley Autoland Museum, which contains over 20 cars owned by Presley.

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 Quote of the Day:

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

--Winston Churchill