LOL!!! Nothing bad on her part. My mom made the most incredible potato salad you have ever eaten. It was the kind that was mustard based not mayonase based.
It was yellow, tangy, and delicous! Everybody at church loved it so they decided to sell quart jars of it as a fundraiser.
It was a huge success and they did it for quite some time unti a health inspector came acros the table with it for sale somewhere and noted there was no refrigeration ,etc and it was considered a perishable item (this would have been in the late 1960's timeframe). Alas the potato salad as a fundraiser was dealt a quick death and the ladies were back to less proitable furndraising like peanut brittle.
Ahhh....I see. What a relief. I thought you mom had killed people with her cooking or something....LOL!
Amazing how we lived just fine with nothing bad happening before the health dept and OSHA came along! Now there is danger everywhere!
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My mom and I make PB every year at Christmas time. It's the same recipe my home church (little UPC in Illinois) used all my life. It's the ONLY peanut brittle that I will eat. It is paper thin and you have to pull and stretch it while it's really hot. I have burned many fingers over the years. I still remember my grandpa pulling that peanut brittle in the church annex when he was in his seventies. That church STILL makes the same stuff, and has more orders every year than they can hardly fulfill.
My brother and sister in law raised money in their church in northern Mississippi on peanut brittle. They would make it at night and sell it at the factory gates in the morning. One night my mother and father were visiting, my father had never seen it made, came through the kitchen and put his hand in a pan of freshly poured peanut brittle, and burnt his hand. He had to sleep with his hand in ice water that night.
The kids were not allowed to eat any peanut brittle unless it was broken. The perfect patties were to be sold. My 6 year old nephew had quite a sweet tooth- He was famous for breaking patties when no one was watching.
It was a family tradition after, after they left that church and moved closer to make peanut brittle as a family every Christmas. My sister in law was the master candy maker. We did this until her untimely death 6 years ago. I miss the peanut brittle days.
They don't make it until around Thanksgiving so it'll be a while before I'll be shipping any out. I'll take orders earlier than I did last time though....and be a bit more organized!
If I had opportunity to sell 1000 NOW, I could find a way.
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If I had opportunity to sell 1000 NOW, I could find a way.
If we had enough help in the kitchen to make it, I believe we could make it three times a year and nobody would ever tire of it.
However, when there are only about five people available to make the stuff, it gets old quick. The ladies just got finished making Easter chocolates and so candy making is once again something nobody is looking forward to at the present time.
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If we had enough help in the kitchen to make it, I believe we could make it three times a year and nobody would ever tire of it.
However, when there are only about five people available to make the stuff, it gets old quick. The ladies just got finished making Easter chocolates and so candy making is once again something nobody is looking forward to at the present time.
Why did you wait to advertise this?
They could have sold them all online to the AFF Dieting Crew!
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My brother and sister in law raised money in their church in northern Mississippi on peanut brittle. They would make it at night and sell it at the factory gates in the morning. One night my mother and father were visiting, my father had never seen it made, came through the kitchen and put his hand in a pan of freshly poured peanut brittle, and burnt his hand. He had to sleep with his hand in ice water that night.
The kids were not allowed to eat any peanut brittle unless it was broken. The perfect patties were to be sold. My 6 year old nephew had quite a sweet tooth- He was famous for breaking patties when no one was watching.
It was a family tradition after, after they left that church and moved closer to make peanut brittle as a family every Christmas. My sister in law was the master candy maker. We did this until her untimely death 6 years ago. I miss the peanut brittle days.
When I was a kidI think at first our church did the same thing, only selling the round solid patties. We probably had a few people intentionally breaking some so I think eventually they just started selling bags of broken up pieces.
I had not eaten any peanut brittle for a few years when about a year ago someone gave me a tin of it that was chocolate coated. It was very good though the brittle itself was not as good as homemade.
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I-If so how successful are you? How much do you make and sell and how often?
The Redding church sold it once a year, right before the holidays season. I don't think it ever really brought in a lot money, maybe 100 or so, mostly due to the fact it get consumed by the members.
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-Any funny stories from the making of peanut brittle or the sale of it?
-Any tragedies involving making or selling peanut brittle?
Well the church had a real problem with mice, and dropping could be found everywhere, it was gross, so I never bought any....
The Redding church sold it once a year, right before the holidays season. I don't think it ever really brought in a lot money, maybe 100 or so, mostly due to the fact it get consumed by the members.
Well the church had a real problem with mice, and dropping could be found everywhere, it was gross, so I never bought any....
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