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Jay Lederman

Rebecca Surran

For Rose Sisters Chips in Bridgeport that tradition started with a young immigrant to America, $5 and a Singer sewing machine. It's this week's Made in Connecticut.

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What the great thing about coming in at 4 a.m. No traffic. No good, smooth sailing, smooth sailing. Yeah. And I guess still for right now. Not too bad. Yeah, it isn't too bad. We're still looking pretty good and the weather is not too bad. At least for the first half of today. Things do switch up later on, but the warmer temperatures are nice. Oh, yeah, we'll see that into the weekend as well. So we're looking forward to that fifties, uh, for a lot of us for today, you are gonna need those umbrellas for a little bit later on getting into your evening period and then, uh, for your tonight, we can expect things to kind of dry out. When I say tonight, we're looking closer to your maybe 89 o'clock hour. We're getting your future cast to time it out. But even still numbers don't fall off too much as we're seeing a lot of us into the forties for you tomorrow. Here's a look at later on this morning at about nine o'clock. We're in the forties. 41 for Birch Port, 44 for orange clouds fill in late parts of our morning. You can expect to see some showers getting into the afternoon, mainly for areas up north north of 84 1st. And then most of us will get engulfed into some rain. By the time we head into that commute home, 567 o'clock, by around your 89 o'clock hour, we're looking gonna dry out and we're looking good. Heading into your Saturday could see a little bit of some patchy fog for the early parts. Your Saturday. Keep that in mind if you do got some traveling to get done for the morning period, but we'll start to see some sunshine as it progressed into your afternoon. Still gonna battle a few clouds for your Saturday. But look at some of these numbers. You got 53 for Torrington, Thomaston, Watertown, 54 for Newtown, 52 for those out toward orange. So whatever plans you got going on for your Saturday, you are looking pretty good things change for your sub, looking dry, but a cloudy gray start for your Sunday morning. And then we see those showers start to work its way in right around the late morning and into the early parts of your afternoon where again, you will need the umbrella. We're talking heavier bouts of that rain, not the little stuff that we're gonna work with today. We really see things pick up. So just to put things into perspective, we're looking at about a quarter of an inch of rain for this first round for today. And then you're gonna tackle on another inch to an inch and a half by the time we head into your Sunday, where those are your total. So again, we're looking at a lot of rain to wrap up this weekend.

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Made in Connecticut: Rose Sisters Chips of Bridgeport

A favorite family recipe can be a bond between generations for sisters chips in Bridgeport. That tradition started with a young immigrant to America. $5 and a singer sewing machine. It's this week's made in Connecticut hot out of the oven. The seasoned snack with a Mexican tortilla as its base actually got its beginnings from a Polish immigrant in the 1920 s named Goldie Rose. So Goldie, wonderful, wonderful lady. She was a seamstress in Poland. When she came to North America, she brought $5 that she saved in her singer sewing machine. Goldie went on to have two daughters and a recipe for a seasoned bread that became a family favorite. This is my grandmother's original seasoning. The team basically takes it, applies it to the tortilla. As the years went on, daughters, Paula and Anne had simplified the recipe. And what they decided is that it was too much work to make bread, just way too much work to do that. But they love the flavor. So they used tortillas and with that Ro's sister's chips was born. So how many of these will they crank out a day? So we today will probably get through about, um, 3500 and 4000. And what we did is we, we whipped up a batch and we brought it to a local market around the corner from us in Fairfield at seven o'clock the next morning on the dot The phone rings and it's the owner saying we're ready to buy. And a month later we had our first distributor, um, out of Massachusetts. And overnight we were in 200 stores. It's cheesy, but it's not really. Or is that just? And there's no cheese, no cheese. The tortillas are baked bagged and boxed as the ro sisters who are now retired mom and Paul are just over the moon because the company has grown so much, but now works out of a Bridgeport factory which the family came to learn was the old singer song manufacturing plant. The same company that made Goldie Rose's sewing machine that young immigrant to America nearly 100 years ago. And it's an honor like it really is a great thing and it sits on our shelf. So it's the first thing that you see when you walk in and you remember her every day. I love that full circle moment at the end. I know. Do you think of all those young immigrants coming to the United States and what it was a result of their journey? Yeah, I was thinking her carrying that sewing machine with her had to be incredible. So rose sister chips just added 500 home goods to them. So they like find out more. Go to news dot com.

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