Small-business owner revives brittle company from her home kitchen

A small-business owner based in Delaware, Ohio, will bring her beloved brittle back to the community after a 14-month hiatus.

Sweet Liberty Candy Company, founded in September, runs entirely out of Jaqueline Bell’s home kitchen, where she creates various flavors of nut brittle. She ran her former company, JK Brittleworks, alongside her ex-husband, but when it dissolved in 2020, Bell stepped out to create a business of her own, operating as the sole employee.   

“As a company, I named it Sweet Liberty because I love to spread the message that liberty is so many different things, and liberty is so personal to what people believe it is,” Bell said. “I discovered my liberty after I divorced my ex-husband and just lost my entire world last year and I think everybody needs to be this free.”

Bell said her initial interest in brittle led her and her daughter to experiment with new brittle flavors in their kitchen every Sunday. From the…

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