PB & J sandwiches are a lunchbox classic, but peanut butter can be paired with more than just jelly!
We searched Newspapers.com™ to find peanut butter sandwich ideas from decades past. While some of these sandwiches are classics in their own right, others are a bit more unusual!
Did your favorite peanut butter sandwich make the list?
(Click any of the links below to see the full sandwich recipe in the newspaper.)
20 Aug 1961, Sun The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, Florida) Newspapers.com
1. Peanut butter & chili sauce
Ingredients: Peanut butter, chili sauce, milk, salt
2. Peanut butter & baked beans
Ingredients: Peanut butter, baked beans, onion, tomato, lettuce, salt, pepper
3. Peanut butter & raisin
Ingredients: Peanut butter, raisins, milk
4. Peanut butter & carrot
Ingredients: Peanut butter, shredded carrots, mayonnaise, milk
5. Peanut butter & bacon
Ingredients: Peanut butter, bacon, mayonnaise
6. Peanut butter & onion
Ingredients: Peanut butter, onion, butter
Peanut butter & Onion Sandwiches 12 Jan 1927, Wed The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
7. Peanut butter & cream cheese
Ingredients: Peanut butter, cream cheese, milk, salt
8. Peanut butter, date & walnut
Ingredients: Peanut butter, dates, walnuts
9. Peanut butter & orange
Ingredients: Peanut butter, orange slices, alfalfa sprouts
10. Peanut butter & honey
Ingredients: Peanut butter, honey
11. Peanut butter & Swiss cheese
Ingredients: Peanut butter, Swiss cheese, lettuce
Peanut butter & Swiss cheese sandwich 17 Jun 1964, Wed Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu, Hawaii) Newspapers.com
12. Peanut butter & mayonnaise
Ingredients: Peanut butter, mayonnaise, lemon juice
13. Peanut butter & pineapple
Ingredients: Peanut butter, crushed pineapple
14. Peanut butter & prune
Ingredients: Peanut butter, prunes, prune juice, lemon juice
15. Peanut butter & cranberry sauce
Ingredients: Peanut butter, cranberry sauce
16. Peanut butter, olive & celery
Ingredients: Peanut butter, olives, celery, salad dressing
Peanut butter, olive & celery sandwich 04 Jun 1924, Wed Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Newspapers.com
17. Peanut butter & ginger
Ingredients: Peanut butter, ginger, lemon juice
18. Peanut butter & maple sugar
Ingredients: Peanut butter, maple sugar
19. Peanut butter & tomato
Ingredients: Peanut butter, tomato, French dressing
20. Peanut butter, orange juice & coconut
Ingredients: Peanut butter, orange juice, coconut, honey
21. Peanut butter & pickle
Ingredients: Peanut butter, pickle, mayonnaise
Recipe: Peanut Butter – Pickle Sandwiches
(1935) 19 Sep 1935, Thu Evening star (Washington, District of Columbia) Newspapers.com
22. Peanut butter & hot dog
Ingredients: Peanut butter, hot dog, pickle relish
23. Peanut butter & maple syrup
Ingredients: Peanut butter, maple syrup, butter
24. Peanut butter & cottage cheese
Ingredients: Peanut butter, cottage cheese, molasses, mayonnaise
25. Peanut butter & applesauce
Ingredients: Peanut butter, applesauce, butter
26. Peanut butter & lettuce
Ingredients: Peanut butter, lettuce, mayonnaise
Recipe: Lettuce and Peanut Butter Sandwich (1957) 25 Sep 1957, Wed Transcript-Telegram (Holyoke, Massachusetts) Newspapers.com
27. Peanut butter & ham
Ingredients: Peanut butter, deviled ham, mayonnaise, pickle relish
28. Peanut butter & marshmallow fluff (“fluffernutter”)
Ingredients: Peanut butter, marshmallow fluff
29. Peanut butter & sausage
Ingredients: Peanut butter, brown ‘n serve sausage, apricot jam
30. Peanut butter & banana
Ingredients: Peanut butter, bananas
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You missed one of the best used of peanut butter: West African groundnut soup/stew. It combines peanut butter with the liquid like roux. Other soup or stew ingredients include chicken, shrimp or meat, onions, tomatoes, red pepper, and vegetables such as onions, okra, mushrooms, and small eggplants known as garden eggs. There are lots of recipes online these days,
Sounds delicious!
Interesting, but not a sandwich, which is probably why it wasn’t mentioned in this blog post.
My late mother was a great fan of peanut butter and onion sandwiches. She would make them with plain whole wheat bread, creamy peanut butter and thinly sliced Vidalia onions. Delicious!
What a wonderful memory of your mother! Thanks for sharing it (and for sharing that it was specifically Vidalia onions that made for a delicious sandwich!).
Can someone please explain to me how years of newspapers that I used to have access too are longer available? They come up in a search, but when I click on them, I get an error page. When I search for those issues specifically, they are nowhere to be found. This has been very frustrating, and sending a contact form for help does not elicit a response.
Hi Shellie, Can you contact support@newspapers.com and give some specifics about the issues you are describing? We’d love to know the name of the paper and will try to get to the bottom of this.
Peanut butter and garlic is delicious. Use fresh, minced garlic.
I don’t think I’ve seen that combo suggested for a sandwich before! Good to know that it’s fresh garlic that does the trick.
When I was little it was common for peanut butter in schools and nobody had any issues but now it’s a paranoid police state about it. I don’t think it’s just ‘allergies’ but rather changes in peanut butter itself as a lot of corporations ship things to China then we buy them back. Rocket fuel was in a lot of medicines which the Chinese got caught killing people with it after whistleblowers blew it wide upon upon a formal investigation. Geez how did rocket fuel get in heart patient medicine? Those don’t even REMOTELY mix or add up.
Almost all our lumber in this decade goes to China then we buy it all back. It’s a weird corporate thing but it means the US DOES NOT benefit in any way and we cannot fully ensure quality.
Peanut butter and banana is my one favorite
My wife’s favorite, going back to childhood, is peanut butter and grape. As far as I’m concerned, nothing can beat peanut butter and Nutella (chocolate hazelnut spread).