Peanuts Cooks
Showing October 14, 2009 to February 15, 2010
at the Charles M. Schulz Museum
To view the ingredients of the above recipes, look below or
contact Gina Huntsinger at (707)284-1268 for a higher resolution image.
“Somewhere I can hear someone eating a chocolate chip cookie!”—Snoopy
September 25, 2009—Santa Rosa, CA.
People’s food tastes change over time, as these Snoopy–endorsed recipes from a 1967 Hallmark cookbook illustrate. The Hallmark recipes, including Marshmallow Fruit Salad (with mayonnaise and Queen Anne cherries), Peanut Butter Crunch Sandwich (with bacon, sweet pickle, mayonnaise, and peanut butter), and Fresh Baked Corn (baked with corn, cream, and sugar), may have been representative of popular foods from an American kitchen in the 1960s, but by 2009 standards, they don’t seem so appetizing!
From October 14, 2009, through February 15, 2010, visitors to the Charles M. Schulz Museum will be able to view the comical side of cuisine in Peanuts Cooks, a new exhibition featuring twenty original Peanuts strips, Peanuts–illustrated cookbooks and other ephemera (including the 1960s–era Hallmark recipes), and even Schulz’s food–related, World War II–era drawings.
Throughout Peanuts Cooks readers will find numerous food preferences and dislikes with which they can identify, from Snoopy’s intense cravings for chocolate chip cookies to his insatiable appetite for pizza; or perhaps Charlie Brown’s strong dislike of soggy cereal and the taste of coconut. Hotdogs, angel food cake, “sour” marshmallows (and lemonade!), doughnuts, root beer, and bread and butter sandwiches have all been featured in the Peanuts comic strip over the years.
Violet with her tasty mud pies. Detail from Peanuts strip – July 26, 1953.
February 24, 1951
All of his life Schulz blanched at the idea of biting into a food that contained coconut, and he imbued many of his Peanuts characters with the same vehement dislike of the food. Charlie Brown first expressed his abhorrence of coconut on February 24, 1951, and over the years readers learned that Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, Sally, and even Olaf also found coconut to be distasteful.
July 26, 1953
August 29, 1981
November 6, 1980
In 1969 a woman named Harriet Crossland began baking cakes for the staff at Schulz’s Redwood Empire Ice Arena in Santa Rosa, California. Schulz’s favorites were Crossland’s angel food cake and/or seven-minute frosting. He memorialized Crossland in the Peanuts strip by naming one of Woodstock’s little bird friends, Harriet, and by mentioning her “Seven Minute Frosting” recipe in the above strip.
1967 Recipe Ingredients (taken from cookbook images above)
Snoopy’s Peanut Butter Crunch Sandwich
For each sandwich:
1 slice whole wheat bread
3 strips crisp bacon
1 slice sweet pickle
Peanut butter
Mayonnaise
Snoopy’s Marshmallow Fruit Salad
1 cup of pineapple chunks, drained
1 cup halved orange sections, drained
½ cup chopped pecans
1 cup pitted Queen Anne cherries, drained
2 cups miniature marshmallows
¼ cup mayonnaise
½ cup heavy cream, chilled and whipped
Lettuce
Snoopy’s Fresh Baked Corn
12 ears of fresh corn
6 tbsp. cream
1 tsp. cornstarch
4 tbsp. butter, cut into small pieces
Salt and pepper
About the Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center
The Charles M. Schulz Museum opened in August 2002 to fulfill its mission of preserving, displaying, and interpreting the art of Charles M. Schulz. The Museum carries out this mission through changing exhibitions and programming that build an understanding of cartoonists and cartoon art; illustrate the scope of Schulz’s multi-faceted career; communicate the stories, inspirations and influences of Charles Schulz; and celebrates the life of Charles Schulz and the Peanuts characters.
[Note: If you would like any of the images in this release at a higher resolution to print in a publication, contact Gina Huntsinger at gina@schulzmuseum.org.]
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