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as I promised I'm going to share with
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y'all my mother's way of cooking my
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daddy's favorite cornbread in the whole
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wi world and that's lace H cakes and in
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order to do that you've got to have the
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proper pan and you can see it's got a
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just a small little rise on the
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edges and it's very important that this
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pan be very well seasoned because there
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is an art to making lace H cakes and it
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can be tricky but I'm going to try to
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help you to make the perfect lace H cake
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and we're going to start by heating our
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pan it's very important that we have a
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hot pan we're going to spray it first
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spray they're called H cakes because
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years and years ago these were cooked
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out in the open field over an open fire
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now we're starting with just plain
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cornmeal you'll want to find a fine
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ground meal because these shouldn't be
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gritty we're going to start with our
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meal and a little salt and water lots
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water this is definitely a poor men's
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bread it's just pennies of serving and
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you can see how liquidy that is and
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we're just going to stir this until the
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lumps are gone and we're going to let it
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sit for a couple of minutes because
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after that water incorporates with that
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meal it can puff up and become thick on
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you so the most important thing about
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cooking a h cake is your beginning
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batter and you want it nice and thin
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it's almost watery and I can smell our
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can you see how nice and thin that is I
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mean it pours truly like
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water and you can see that your
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cornmeal will settle to the bottom you
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can see that I've ran my spoon down here
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and have found my cornmeal laying in the
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bottom of the bowl so you'll want to
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constantly be giving that
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stirs and now we're going to add a
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little oil because these will stick so
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believe and as you can see our pan is
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hot my mother made these hook cakes
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twice a day every day I think probably
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my mother and daddy's very special and
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favorite time together was at lunch when
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my brother Bubba and I were away at
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school and she started off their lunch
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hour by serving him a delicious lunch
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and the bread every meal was H
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cakes and you can see that we've gotten
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our pan good and hot and it's already
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beginning to lace around the edges for
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us I know my Mother and Daddy just hated
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the days that I've messed up their lunch
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hour that they so look forward to
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together this delicate bread just brings
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back all kind of memories for me I can
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see my beautiful mother standing up at
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the stove cooking these for the family
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even using my grandmother's hake Turner
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1945 so this is a very very special time
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for me and I'm so glad that y'all are
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here to share it with me and we're just
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going to kind of run our spatula up
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there so that the grease can get up
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and it won't stick on us this is my
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pan it's some point I even lost contact
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with my mother's hake pan which makes me
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very sad all right I'm going to show you
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a trick now on how to turn these H cakes
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I'm going to take just a regular dinner
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plate and I'm going to run it just under
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water and I'm going to cover our our
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pan and then we're going to very
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carefully flip our hake pan
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over we're going to give our pan another
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spray and another squirt of
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oil and then we're going to just
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slide that hake back into our
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Pan the water on the plate allows it to
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just slide very easily
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off I can't tell you how this cornbread
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just does something to the meal that a
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biscuit can't do you know there's just
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nothing like a big chunk of buttered
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lace H cake and at the end of our meal
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we would pass the syrup and it would be
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well now that we've flipped it that
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first time it's easy enough to take your
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spatular and flip it back and forth but
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that very first time you really are
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going to need the help of a dampened
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plate all right we're just going to take
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this one off and we'll just repeat the
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process and you might not think that
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you'll need to grease your pan every
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time but trust me you really will
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because they'll stick so badly on you if
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you don't and that's about the biggest
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problem that you're going to have when
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you're making your H cakes and you can
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see this batter is starting starting to
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get thick on me so I'm going to control
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the thickness of this
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hake by the way I dip up my batter
