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Monday, January 11, 2021

Microwave: Mug O'Peanut Omelet -- An Introduction to George Washington Carver

From tragic beginnings, George Washington Carver became a noted botanist who promoted various agricultural methods and new cash crops like the peanut and sweet potato that helped save the American agricultural economy in the 1930s.

This is the first of several peanut recipes, I will attempt to adapt based on Carver's recipes published by Experimental Station, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Tuskegee Institute Press in BULLETIN NO. 31 June 1925 (Revised from the original publication of April, 1918).

(Retrieved 6/2/2019 from: https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/carver-peanut/)

Original Recipe

"NO. 44, PEANUT OMELET
Cream a slice of bread in half a cup of rich milk; beat the whites and yolks of two eggs separately; add the yolks to the bread crumbs and milk; to half a cup of finely ground peanuts add a dash of pepper and salt; mix thoroughly; fold in the whites, and cook as usual in a buttered pan."

My Version is below.

Mug O’Peanut Omelet (Bread Pudding)
(Adapted from: How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption Seventh Edition, January 1940, By George W. Carver, M.S. in AGR., Director, No. 44, Peanut Omelet)

Ingredients:

Olive oil
2-3 Drops Hot sauce
Ground Black pepper to taste
A Dollop Milk
1 Egg
1 Slice Bread, multigrain, torn into pieces
1 TBspn Crunchy Peanut Butter or Smooth Peanut Butter

1/2 Tspn Crushed peanuts (Optional)

Process:

Add oil to mug, swirl to coat bottom and sides of mug.
Add hot sauce and milk.
Add black pepper.
Add egg.
Stir and whip thoroughly.
Add bread pieces.
Stir and mix to make sure bread is soaked in liquid.
Add peanut butter.

Add crushed peanuts (optional).
Stir and mix thoroughly.
Cover and Microwave on high for 2 minutes.