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Let's go ahead and get started.
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I've got everything gathered here
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that we're gonna need to make the cake
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part of our strawberry shortcake.
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And I'm going to use two cups of all purpose flour.
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There we go, just right into the bowl
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To my flour, I'm gonna add a half a teaspoon of salt,
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one tablespoon of baking powder,
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three tablespoons of sugar,
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now I'm gonna cut in one stick of very cold butter
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that I've cut up into pieces.
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Now you wanna make sure that this
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is not at room temperature,
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because we don't want our butter
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to like melt into our flour.
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We want it to be cutting in
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so there's little chunks of butter.
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All right, so we're just gonna pulse this
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until we see that that butter cut into that flour.
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One more little pulse.
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All right, there we go.
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Yeah, that looks good.
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Almost looks like a little bit like corn meal.
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Very quickly, the food processors work great for that.
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Now I'm just gonna transfer that to my bowl.
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I'm gonna make a well
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and I'm gonna add two thirds a cup of half and half.
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And just work that into my buttery dough.
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I remember when I was a young girl,
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my mama would go to the grocery store
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and she would buy those little cakes.
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The packages came like six,
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had six shells for strawberry shortcake
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and oh man, did we love those!
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But that was definitely the store-bought answer.
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And there's nothing like the real old timey
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sweet biscuit for strawberry shortcakes.
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So I'm excited about making these today.
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All right, I've got all of our half and half mixed in.
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Now, I'm just gonna take our spatula
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and I've got some flour up here on my counter
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and I'm just gonna put our dough into that flour
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and you can see that our dough is very, very sticky.
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So that little bit of flour is gonna give me
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just enough to kind of need into that dough
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so I can touch it without it sticking to me.
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And this is just perfect.
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Now I'm not even gonna have to roll this dough out.
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I'm just gonna pat it out
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three quarters to an inch thick,
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and you can see how easy and quick that was
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to get our shortcakes together.
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A beautiful, fat biscuit.
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Just gonna add this to the tray over here that I got goin'.
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Now, you'll want to make sure when you're making your dough
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for your strawberry shortcake
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that you don't overwork your dough.
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You wanna just handle it as little as possible.
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So I've got these on a cookie sheet,
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now I want to just brush the tops with
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a little half and half,
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and I'm doing that for two reasons.
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The half and half will give a little sheen
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to our shortcakes plus I've got a little extra sugar
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for these bad boys and that half and half
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will give the sugar something to stick to.
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You know, this is a dessert
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so I want my biscuits to be sweet.
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Okay, so we're gonna pop this in
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to a preheated oven at 400 degrees.
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In they go and while those are baking,
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I'm gonna come over here
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and I'm gonna finish up my strawberries.
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I had gotten them started.
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Now I'm using like one quart of strawberries.
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The larger ones I'm quartering,
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the smaller strawberries I'm just cutting in half.
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I had a junior strawberry and granddaddy strawberry there.
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All right, so into the bowl they go.
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I'm gonna toss them with a fourth of a cup of sugar
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and that sugar will go into those strawberries.
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And they're gonna produce a nice juice.
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I'm gonna give these a quick stir
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so they can get to mixing with that sugar.
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I took the biscuits out of the oven
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and look how beautiful these little biscuit cakes look.
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I'm gonna use a serrated knife
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so that they won't crumble on me.
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Look in here, see that?
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Oh my goodness, the girls are gonna love it.
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Mmm, now I'm gonna come in here with my strawberries.
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Just kinda pile 'em up on there.
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Now I'm gonna go in for that juice.
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And now I'm gonna come back in here and put my lid on it,
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put a few more strawberries on top of that.
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And you can't have strawberry shortcake
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without some nice sweetened whipped cream, can ya?
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Some of my beautiful mint from the garden.
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Look at that beautiful shortcake, just glistening.
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Y'all don't mind if I go ahead and taste, do you?
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Mmm, I don't know what to say, it's so delicious.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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