Don’t get me wrong, if you have a good jam or preserves it’s totally fine on a sandwich, and I wouldn’t turn my nose up at it. However, peanut butter doesn’t really need the help, and the extra sweetness from jelly is totally unnecessary. Toasted bread and peanut butter is all you need for a quality simple sandwich.
Well, definitely fits the community!
I will say that I disagree, though I do find joy in just a plain peanutbutter sandwich at times.
But, to me, peanutbutter is a foundation to build with, not the main goal. When teamed up with the right ingredients, it provides synergy. It’s got sweet, salty, a little umami, and that unique peanut taste. So it mixes well with so much.
The key to jelly is making sure that it still manages to have a tartness and the experience is more fulfilling. I find that actually jellies aren’t as good as preserves or jams, as jelly tends to be way more sugar based and has little or no “body” from the original fruit.
But one of my favorite PB based sandwiches is apples. Slice them up thin, a scant layer of pb on each slice of bread, with the slices stacked in between. A decently tart apple is sublime. Add a slice of cheddar and you get a deeper complexity.