It seems like everyone is on a baking kick lately while they’re stuck in their homes due to the coronavirus lockdown.

But if you’re done seeing the time-consuming sourdoughs and the same banana breads over and over again, there’s another quick bread in the game – and it’s taking over Reddit.

We’re talking about peanut butter bread!

Doesn’t that sound heavenly?

I made Peanut Butter Bread from the 1932 Five Roses Flour cookbook via Glen & Friends. It’s delicious and tastes like a peanut butter cookie! (recipe in comments) from r/Old_Recipes

It doesn’t require any fancy starters or too-old fruit – just a few key ingredients that probably already have in your pantry.

The recipe belongs to the once-again-popular series of “Depression recipes” that are floating around and involve cheap ingredients that one is already likely to have on hand.

These recipes also tend not to require two ingredients that were hard to come by during the Depression – eggs and butter. In this case, the peanut butter does the work of both of those.

If anyone is still in doubt about the peanut butter bread, this stuff is amazing. I’m planning to make French toast this weekend with it! from r/Old_Recipes

The recipe posted on Reddit is from the 1932 edition of the Canadian Five Roses Cookbook, originally published in 1913 by Lake of the Woods Milling Company as a way to use their flour.

It has also been revived by the YouTube Series Glen & Friends Cooking.

If you want to try making the latest luscious treat, gather the following:

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of all-purpose flour (wheat flour is recommended, but any flour will do)
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 4 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 and 1/3 cups of milk
• 1/2 cup of peanut butter (plus maybe another extra scoop if you really want that flavor to come out)

The instructions couldn’t be easier.

How to:

Step 1: Preheat your oven to 325 degrees and grease your bread loaf pan.

Step 2: Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

Step 3: Next, add the wet ingredients to the mixing bowl of dry ingredients by first stirring in the milk, then the peanut butter.

Step 4: Scrape the mixture with a spatular into the greased pan.

Step 5: Bake the bread for about 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Now, some have complained that the bread isn’t sweet enough or that it’s a bit crumbly, but you always have the option to sweeten with more sugar or add honey or butter to the slices later – that is, if you don’t eat it right out of the oven.

Many Redditors have even used it to make French toast, which sounds even more delightful!

Of course I had to try making the the peanut butter bread – and then I turned it into French toast topped with caramelized bananas. So good! from r/Old_Recipes

Those without bread pans went for it as well – and while it doesn’t look like bread, by all accounts it’s still peanut buttery deliciousness!

Fresh peanut butter bread on a beautiful Saturday! Didn’t have a loaf pan, but it didn’t seem to matter from r/PeanutButter

Overall, it’s been a crowd-pleaser and it’s an easy enough project that it truly doesn’t require any baking skills. You just need to be able to measure and stir.

Give it a try and join the peanut butter bandwagon!

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Source: Glen & Friends Cooking via YouTube, u/trixietravisbrown via Reddit, The Kitchn