When you eat hot peppers, the pain receptors on the tongue react and cause a physical reaction called "sweating." You start to salivate and perspire, your nose runs, your metabolism speeds up--this is all the body's reaction working to cool itself.
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It all started with an egg yolk…
The year is 1924. Tucked away in a small rock home on a quiet
road in a small rural Texas town called Mansfield, Mildred
Dalton is busy in her kitchen making pastries and pies. Her
husband, Jessie Otis Dalton, operates a one-room grocery store
in Fort Worth, Texas. Each day he takes to work with him more
of her pastry creations and merchandises them alongside other
food items for sale. Times are tough and extra money is needed.
Mildred and Jessie have 3 children to care for. Mildred is
using a lot of egg whites for pastry meringues, but hardly
any of the leftover egg yolks, so she decides to use the
egg yolks and begins making homemade mayonnaise.
Before long Mildred's mayonnaise is a best seller in the Fort
Worth grocery store and a favorite amongst family friends.
In fact it is such a hit that neighbors begin to pay for it,
and grocery store customers call in orders ahead of time to
make sure that product is available. Mildred decides to
compliment the popular mayonnaise by making an equally
impressive homemade sandwich spread. This item, however,
requires pickle relish as a main ingredient. As such, a
relish supplier is secured but he soon raises prices to
what are considered ridiculously high levels. Jessie
and Mildred are left with no other option but to plant
a pickle patch in their home garden. The ensuing harvest
is so abundant that the family begins packing pickles.
4 generations later the family tradition continues. Peek
into the past with our
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