So. Have you guys ever made a peanut butter white sauce and then poured it over Fritos?
Because I have.
These are Peanut Butter Fritos!
AuthorRetroRuth
From Recipes & Means For All Occassions, 1947
Tested Recipes!
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Melt butter, add peanut butter and pastry flour. Thoroughly blend and add 2 cups of milk. Cook until smooth, pour over Fritos.
Place a slice of crisp bacon on each, sprinkle with paprika and garnish liberally with parsley.
Ingredients
Directions
Melt butter, add peanut butter and pastry flour. Thoroughly blend and add 2 cups of milk. Cook until smooth, pour over Fritos.
Place a slice of crisp bacon on each, sprinkle with paprika and garnish liberally with parsley.
Notes
We recently received an entire box full of vintage cookbooks from one of Tom’s family members. It was amazing. There were so many books!!! Among the goodies we found perhaps the greatest brand cookbook I’ve ever seen. I thought the Heinz books that put ketchup in everything were amazing, but that has nothing, nothing, on a cookbook with Fritos in every recipe. And it isn’t a small book either, it’s thirty-two pages long. Thirty-two pages of Fritos recipes! Can you imagine? It took us two hours to read through it because we were laughing so hard. Absolutely everything has Fritos in it. I love it.
And then this happened. It’s peanut butter sauce. Being poured onto Fritos.
Unfortunately, the parsley I had on hand got all moldy before I was able to use it on this lovely Frito dish. Such is life!
Luckily, Tom’s parents were visiting (!) so they got to join in on the fun. Not sure if they felt lucky, though!
“That’s an interesting face.”
“This is gross.”
“It’s not that bad.”
“I kind of like it.”
The Verdict: Mixed
From The Tasting Notes –
This was mostly just bland. It wasn’t that bad if you got a bite of Fritos, peanut butter and bacon in one bite. It tasted like corn, salt, peanut butter and milk. But it was unanimously agreed that this was not everyone’s favorite way to eat Fritos. It would have been MUCH better if the peanut butter sauce could be switched out for chili. Or cheese sauce.
I need to know who kind of liked it. You can’t tease us like that! If I had to guess from the photo I’d say Tom’s dad.
Were the Doritos a palate cleanser?
Yes, I need to know which critiques belong to whom!!!!!
I like how the Doritos are there to save the day just in case the recipe is disgusting. Because Doritos are good on everything 🙂
Ha! You guys. 🙂
Tom’s dad thought they were bland, but not bad. Tom’s mom kind of liked them. And Tom thought they were gross. 🙂
Oh, Doritos totally save the day! Every time. 🙂
Why do I feel like this dish is a heart attack just waiting to happen?? 🙂
Just read the Frito cabbage recipe. Any takers for THAT one??
I have to say I’m partial to fritos, in fact I agree a Frito burrito today and once invented Frito chow mein when the Chinese place forgot my chow mein crunchy noodles, but this does not sound or look like a child pleasing dish unless the only other option is Frito cabbage 🙂
Love your site, I discovered it while looking for lamb cake recipes. I made a cheater lamb cake with the Wilton tips on using cake mix with pudding but want to try some of your recipes now that I have a base line.
Please, please make another recipe from this book!
Thirty-two pages of Frito recipes! That’s enough for an entire MONTH.
I can’t help feeling that with some major overhauling of the sauce, this might actually be good.
I was thinking the same thing … that cabbage recipe looks disgusting! I like how it does not specify what kind of meat – just cold meat! Also WTH is chili gravy?
This dish sounds tasty to me if you season the sauce a bit. It’s like a crunchy casserole. I would leave out the bacon, though, simply because I don’t eat meat.
Reading this now because of the recent Frito Macaroon post, and I’m thinking this one might not be bad (relative term, let’s try “easier to eat”) if treating the peanut butter bechamel-bacon-parsley combo as a dip instead of a sauce, and using Fritos Scoops to, well, scoop it up. Not 1947 accurate, but the flavor profile would remain. For what it’s worth.
Yes – they mysterious chili gravy! Was that just a condiment that everyone had in the ‘fridge, like salsa is today?