Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> 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 hadn't thought about the oil separating out as a reason
for refrigeration.
I always assumed that peanut and other nut butters wouldn't
get rancid
as quickly if they were refrigerated.

gloria p