Bert’s Brittle — Seven Winds Kitchen
What can be better than fudge: peanut butter, chocolate, or pecan? Nothing, I thought, taking my first tastes in the Seven Winds Kitchen.
Being a country girl myself, I wasn’t the least bit surprised to find a thriving enterprise in what appeared to be a run-of-the-mill farmhouse, next to a metal sided store that could pass for most people’s storage facility. It was a bit of a shock, however, to the city friends I was with when we visited Seven Winds Kitchen outside Logan, Alabama.
Jane Gammon and Frances Scruggs are sisters, who’ve taken a family hand-me-down recipe for peanut brittle, done a little tinkering, and started up their own business marketing and developing sweet treats of every nature. Jane said, “Mother (Berta Gammon) began to make candy for everybody,” from a recipe she received from another family member back in the 1940s, so the brittle had been tested by hundreds of friends and relatives before Jane and Francis opened shop in 1994.