Jif's not-so-secret recipe is almost identical to Great Value: roasted peanuts, sugar, molasses, hydrogenated oils, mono- and diglycerides, and salt. Using roasted peanuts is bound to alter the ...

Whenever I’d ask her for the recipe, or to walk me through baking them, she would shoo me away, saying, “They’re just Jif! Go get a jar of Jif and follow the recipe.” So I finally decided ...