Peanut Butter Date Balls
From the Betty Crocker Cooky Book, 1978 (originally published 1963)
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup confectioners sugar
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or peanuts)
1 cup chopped dates
1 tbsp butter or margaine
3/4 bar (4-oz bar) sweet cooking chocolate
Mix peanut butter, sugar, nuts, dates and butter well. Break chocolate into top of double boiler and let it melt while shaping dough into marble-sized balls. With metal spatula or knife spread the top of balls with melted chocolate and swirl, giving bonbon effect. Refrigerate until set. Makes abut 110 balls. Note: If chunk-style peanut butter is used, use only 3/4 cup chopped nuts.
My Notes: This cookbook is one of the first cookbooks I compelled my mother to purchase. It also has been used extensively, battered (literally even) and very damaged. These are the peanut butter balls my mother made, though I favored a friend’s mother’s recipe.
Those are different from the ones we made. The ones we made didn’t have nuts and dates in them. I think they had rice krispies and powdered sugar. And maybe coconut.
Comment by sassymonkey — June 2, 2006 @ 10:51 am
it would be very tasty!
Comment by Michael — June 2, 2006 @ 6:14 pm
Great site - I’ll have to try some of these recipes!
Thanks.
Comment by Jude — June 3, 2006 @ 8:05 pm
Aren’t those old ragged cookbooks the best? I have several from my mom’s collection & they’re the ones I turn to again & again.
Comment by skeet — June 3, 2006 @ 9:05 pm
Were they like these Sassymonkey? (and check out the pictures. My chocolate covered anything never looks that pretty!)
Comment by retrofood — June 4, 2006 @ 5:51 pm
Welcome Jude! Let us know what you try and how they turn out!
Comment by retrofood — June 4, 2006 @ 5:52 pm
Yep Skeet, they are. Raggedy cookbooks ROCK!
Comment by retrofood — June 4, 2006 @ 5:53 pm