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.
it would be very tasty!
Great site – I’ll have to try some of these recipes!
Thanks.
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.
Were they like these Sassymonkey? (and check out the pictures. My chocolate covered anything never looks that pretty!)
Welcome Jude! Let us know what you try and how they turn out!
Yep Skeet, they are. Raggedy cookbooks ROCK!