Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> First, the song:
> PEANUT BUTTER
> (Chorus)
> Peanut, peanut butter, jelly!
> Peanut, peanut butter, jelly!
>
> First you take the peanuts and you pick 'em, you pick 'em,
> You pick 'em, pick 'em, pick 'em
> Then you crush 'em, crush 'em,
> You crush 'em, crush 'em, crush 'em
> Then you spread 'em, spread 'em,
> You spread 'em, spread 'em, spread 'em...
> (Chorus)
>
> Then you take the berries and you pick 'em, you pick 'em,
> You pick 'em, pick 'em, pick 'em
> Then you crush 'em, crush 'em,
> You crush 'em, crush 'em, crush 'em
> Then you spread 'em, spread 'em,
> You spread 'em, spread 'em, spread 'em...
> (Chorus)
>
> Next, the question:
> I just made peanut butter from dry roasted peanuts, a little honey, a
> little oil, a little salt, with my food processor. If the ingredients
> don't, in and of themselves, require refrigeration, why does the end
> product need to be refrigerated.
>
> All responses I see will be read with interest.

I don't refrigerate my "regular" peanut butter - Jif. But I also keep
the old fashioned style around - the kind where the oils need to be
stirred in. If you refrigerate it - then you don't have to keep stirring it!

I know some prefer to refrigerate both.

-Tracy
(nice song by the way...)