(Image credit: Getty Images) The peanut butter cookie was
invented in the 1910's, when George Washington Carver of
Alabama's Tuskegee Institute published a peanut cookbook in an
effort to promote the crop. In the cookbook titled, "How to Grow
the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption,"
Carver included several cookies recipes that called for chopped
peanuts. Peanut butter was added to the cookies 20 years later
along with the fork marks that are associated with the cookie
today. Celebrate National Peanut Butter Cookie Day and make a
batch tonight:Also Read