Our Story

Years later after moving away from the family farm and marrying Leon Brangers, I carried on the traditions I had learned as a child, especially the tradition of making Christmas candy for friends and neighbors in Lexington. Soon Peanut Brittle became a year round treat as my husband, Leon, began to give it to many friends and co-workers, when they happened to be sick, and we began to call it 'chicken soup'.

Nearly 15 years after moving away from the family farm, our lives brought us back to Elizabethtown and the family farm, and the tradition of giving Peanut Brittle to friends continued. After being back in Elizabethtown for sometime, we bought Alpha Christian Bookstore, and at that time Peanut Brittle became a treat that we not only gave to friends and co-workers but we began to give to the music salespeople that came to our store selling us new products.

Soon the business began to grow and so did the occasions that we gave Peanut Brittle to those around us. We started giving our Peanut Brittle to all the salespeople that came to our store, and before long we began taking an entire suit case full of Peanut Brittle to our annual convention, the Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) show. We would give this abundance of Peanut Brittle to many that we came in contact with that were so helpful in growing and operating our business. The CBA show draws in many music artists and authors, and before long our music salespeople started sharing the Peanut Brittle with many of the artists at the show. This caused our abundance of Peanut Brittle to grow again and soon we were shipping large boxes of Peanut Brittle to the hotel where we would be staying for our CBA convention because we could not carry enough on the plane in our luggage. CBA has taken us to Denver, Anaheim, Dallas, Orlando, Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville, Indianapolis, and Louisville over the years we owned the bookstore, and peanut brittle always went with us.

Many of our sales-friends and well-known artists started to encourage us to sell our Peanut Brittle because hardly any of the Peanut Brittle you could purchase was quite like what we were making. Ken Davis, author and comedian, who claims he hates peanut brittle has told us and others how much he loved Leon's Bewley Hollow Peanut Brittle. As a result, in 2001 we began the initial stages of selling our Peanut Brittle. In a small bedroom in our home on a piece of the family farm where I grew up on Bewley Hollow road we constructed a commercial kitchen in which to make and sell our Peanut Brittle. After construction and approval by the health department, we began making Leon's Bewley Hollow Peanut Brittle.

Of the thousands of pounds packaged and sold or given away, every pound has been made in individual batches, one at a time, in a regular-sized pan, stirring for eleven minutes to produce only two pounds of peanut brittle. How much Peanut Brittle we made and gave away before 2001, only God knows. Recently, some of our internet customers took time to stop at Word of God Christian Resources store in Elizabethtown, Ky. They wanted to buy some of Leon's Bewley Hollow Peanut Brittle as they were traveling from Vevay, Indiana to Lake Barkley. While they were at the store they insisted that they drove 200 miles to meet us, so we were happy to visit with him and his wife. When I ask what he liked about our peanut brittle he simply said, "It's the best'.

Thank you to all those who have purchased peanut brittle through the web site all these years.

Leon & Peggy Brangers