 If crunchy peanut butter is used, the resulting cookie may contain peanut fragments.George Washington Carver (1864-1943), an American agricultural extension educator, from Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, was the most well known promoter of the peanut as a replacement for the cotton crop, which had been heavily damaged by the boll weevil.He compiled 105 peanut recipes from various cookbooks, agricultural bulletins and other sources.