Up next, we'll blast into the alien past with a look at one family's legacy of success.
Today on UFO Cookbook, making an hour away, the Coleman sisters first 250 years.
Meet Jill Dan, the great granddaughter of Shoray Coleman.
It's no surprise that the 1991 bestseller, making an hour away, the Coleman sisters first 250 years is still as popular as ever.
Even Antoine Philly's, the Cheyenne BC mayor, has announced that it will be the first book of the city's summer reading list.
You must be thrilled that after all these years, the book and your famous relatives are still in the news. How do you account for that?
My family's story is a universally intriguing one. It's a rags to riches tale with a twist.
My great grandmother and great aunt were pioneers. Their parents were not just from another country, they were from another planet, born into slavery.
According to Jill Dan, life on Renku Plentar for the Coleman family was not easy.
Locked into a social system where only an occasional odd job was the norm, the Coleman's decided that a move to earth was their best option.
They never anticipated that the worst was yet to come.
The book is indeed a thrilling, biographical tale of our family's survival.
My great aunt and great grandmother proved that anyone can make it here, even people from one of the worst holes in the galaxy.
As Auntie Matilda used to say, all you need is a dream and determination.
Although located in the light belt of Lunaris, known for its highly evolved, peaceful and prosperous planets,
Renku Plentar is one of the poorest, violent and most restrictive planets in the galaxy.
By law, its women are forbidden to work.
The people of Renku Plentar, both men and women, however, have the highest life expectancy in the cosmos, 500 years, if they remain on the planet.
Any sort of career for a woman from Renku Plentar was shunned, so it's amazing that they were so hugely successful.
Your grandmother and great aunt, great great grandmother and grand aunt.
That's right, it was unusual for them to work, but both their father and mother were severely injured on the trip here to earth.
Shory and Matilda learned quickly that they had to figure out a way to put food on the table.
As early as ages 5 and 7, Shory and Matilda Coleman began preparing and delivering home-cooked meals to people in the neighborhood.
Of course, none of the buyers knew that it was Shory and Matilda who did all of the cooking.
They just thought the girls were delivering the meals their busy mother had prepared.
It was a tough time. Fortunately, their egg salad sandwich was a big hit.
It was because of that recipe alone that they earned enough money to get help for their parents.
This is why the egg salad sandwich is the only recipe in the book.
It was a very difficult time, but they were able to make it.
They were able to make it.
They were able to make it.
They were able to make it.
They were able to make it.
They were able to make it.
Of course, Shory and Matilda had many secrets. Both parents had discovered sweetgrass,
a deadly drug that helped ease their pain but nearly destroyed the family.
Their parents spent all Shory and Matilda's money
Their parents spent all Shory and Matilda's money.
Their hard earned money on sweetgrass.
Then Shory started burying the money in the backyard.
She and Matilda cooked, saved, and scrimped until they had enough money to get help.
Just in time too, so they thought, with help both parents seemed to recover from their addiction.
Their mother started helping out with the cooking business and their dad even found work
as a security guard at the local lollipop factory.
It was a shock to all when their dad was found dead in a fire at the factory.
They later learned that he actually never gave up the sweetgrass.
He lit a sweetgrass cigarette and then tossed the match near the gas powered sugar mixing vat.
There was a huge explosion. The whole place burned to the ground.
He said that all forms of addiction have a psychological element.
Mr. Coleman's addiction to sweetgrass was fueled by his belief that drugs heightened his creative abilities.
He feared if he stopped smoking sweetgrass, he'd no longer be able to sculpt, which was his true love.
Mr. Coleman created hundreds of sculptures. These were inspired by lollipops.
And no one knew that their dad had been secretly pinning lollipop recipes in hopes of starting his own lollipop business at some point.
No one knew, not even his wife, until later Shory found the notebook in the attic. It had at least 100 lollipop recipes.
Shory Coleman later started her own lollipop business using her dad's secret recipes.
What a great way to honor her dad. His recipes provided quite a legacy for the family.
Yes, it's a legacy, a legacy of love and survival, and I'm convinced that that's exactly why the book continues to be so popular. Even out of a dark and sad time, they were able to persevere and succeed.
In fact, so much so that even today the Coleman family is still benefiting from their labors. I've heard that the Coleman sisters movie is about to be filmed or cast rather.
Any thoughts or hints as to who's going to play Shory or Matilda?
You never know. Could be anyone. I look forward to the entire process. In fact, I'm thinking of making it a requirement that whomever is cast, they will for sure have to know how to make this egg salad sandwich.
Thank you Jill Dan. Thank you so much for talking to me and sharing your family's egg salad sandwich recipe. It's perfect for summer.
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