Old School Recipe Of The Month

Most small communities have at least one thing in common, all of the love gathers at the kitchen table. Everyone has a favorite recipe that has been passed down for years. We want you to share your favorites with us. Submit the recipe, along with some photos and a memory involving that recipe.

Suzanne Bean, a Mt. Juliet resident, sent in her grandmother’s Peanut Brittle recipe.

“My grandma, Mable Wyatt, is my father’s mother. She gave birth to 5 boys in an old farmhouse at the end of a gravel road in Danville, IL. She loved raising all boys (saying that she was glad she never had a girl), she loved animals (often allowing the farm animals in the house), and she loved to cook. She had several specialties like chicken and noodle soup (with homemade noodles,) pork chops, meatloaf, and, of course, peanut brittle. She made it for every occasion, and usually sent everyone home with a container of it (because she had made too much.) She was an amazing woman and is dearly missed. She slipped away peacefully on Christmas morning in 1992.”

Above is a copy of her handwritten peanut brittle recipe, along with a picture of her in her kitchen in 1968.