My grandfather was an identical twin. He and his brother had a ball fooling people when they were young. I never thought they looked alike, however. I think that has something to do with being family; or maybe it was simply the differences in their personalities that set them apart for me. You can see they really did look a lot alike:
They started a twins convention in New York State. It was a huge gathering of twins from all over. I have newspaper clippings and a scrapbook of containing pictures of my grandfather and great uncle and the friends they made each year. It was a really important part of their young adulthood.The point of this story? Nothing related to the recipe that follows. My grandmother picked up a cookbook on a vacation to Minnesota one year and this recipe is in that book.
Peanut Butter Pinwheels:
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
2 Tbls milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips
1 tsp butter
Cream butter, peanut butter and sugar. Add the egg and milk. Sift dry ingredients and add to the butter mixture. Divide into 2 parts and roll each into arectangle. Melt chocolate and tsp of butter in the microwave. Spread over the rolled out dough and roll up like a jelly roll. Chill for half an hour and slice. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
Don't they sound good?
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3 comments:
These are yummy! I have a very similar recipe from grams, who was from the midwest. Must have been a regional thing.
I can see peanut butter working real well in pinwheels. Good one.
Your grandfathers look quite different from one another to me. It's the way they hold themselves. Like you said, the differences in their personalities.
what a great story and the recipe sounds delicious
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