Bourbon Apple Bread Pudding & Vanilla Bourbon Ice Cream
I’d like to introduce you to the newest member of my family. Isn’t she pretty? Such a doll. We’re related. No really. Here’s how I found her: Early this year I got inspired to uncover our ancestry after my husband’s uncle was able to trace back their family tree to the 800’s. No, I didn’t forget a ‘1’ there. I really meant 800. After joining an ancestry website and doing some digging, I discovered my great great great grandfather was a man by the name of Charles Nelson. Charles Nelson Charles immigrated to the United States from Germany with his family. His father was a wealthy soap and candle factory owner who converted the family fortune into gold bars and had them sown into his clothing for safekeeping during the passage. One night during a terrible storm, Charles’ father was thrown overboard and the weight of the family’s wealth took him straight to the bottom of the ocean. So they say. Charles’ daughter, Louise holding my great grandmother Sarah. With a mother and siblings to …