Childhood Food Grows Up

Hey, y'all

Today on Paula's Party, your favorite foods from your childhood, all grown-ups

We're gonna be cooking a delicious candy bar pie. Well, I ain't got no milk, but here

take it down back. We're making a homemade version of a classic snack

a yellow sponge cake with creamy filling. That's it. And I'm recreating my favorite childhood treat

The perfect mix of chocolate, caramel, and nuts. Is that yummy, Dan

So y'all get real comfortable, because today we're going to be blasting back to the past

on Paula's Party. Get it, Tara, get it! Oh, my gracious

Somebody trained y'all very, very well. Welcome to Paula's party. I'm so glad you're here today

Because guess where we're going today? We're going back to our childhood

Today's show is all about our favorite childhood foods. But we're going to change them around a little bit and turn our favorite foods as a child into more grown-up food

Do you know what my favorite foods are from my childhood? And I can't say the names because, you know, we're not allowed to use names

But do y'all remember a show called My Friend Flicker? Well, it kind of rhymes with flicker

Do y'all get it? Looks kind of something like this. We're going to be cooking My Friend Flicker bars

Huh? And we're going to be making another favorite of everybody's. Banana pudding

And we're going to make it with probably one of the favorite cookies from our childhood

It kind of rhymes with like, Glorio. Is that a word? All right

Well, if y'all are ready, let's party. All right. To start my friend Flickr Pie, I'm going to set me up a double boiler

Because we're going to have to melt our candy bars. I tell you what, it's already started boiling

So I'm just going to stick those candy bars over in there

and let them start melting. And while they're melting, I'm going to be making our crust

Now, I've got about 1 1⁄2 cups of graham cracker crumbs. And I'm going to add 3 tablespoons of sugar

and then I'm going to take six tablespoons of melted butter. I love me some butter

I just love it. All right, so we're just going to take our spoon

and we're going to work that butter into our crumbs. The secret to a good crust is baking it off

so that it will like harden up for you so when you cut your pie

it won't like just be like crumbs so we're just going to press that

just like that that could use the pop plate is a press

oh see that made it great so we're going to put this in a three hundred fifty

degree oven and we're going to bake it for maybe eight minutes

So we're going to get this in the oven. And I've got one in here that's already ready

So we don't even have to wait. Doesn't that look good? All right, now our candy bars are melting

And I'm going to add to that a half a cup of peanut butter

Just taste that. Just lick it

Isn't that yummy? It's delicious. Chocolate and peanut butter. Mmm. All right, now I'm going to add a tablespoon and a half of half and half

Do you know this is the way I love to eat my chocolate candy bars when they... I..

Lots of times, y'all, if I'm in my car, I will put my candy bar up on the visor

so it can get warm and kind of melt, and then I just lick it

Okay. Who's what, baby? I have a question. Before I ask my question, I have to tell you a short story

Oh, yay. I just wanted to tell you why I'm such a big fan of yours

My mother passed away when I was 16 and ever since then

my father, my sister and I didn't know how to cook so we ate out of frozen food and cans and boxes

but when I discovered your show you taught me how to cook because everything you made was simple and easy

so now we sit around the table again and we eat real food because of you

so I wanted to say thank you Thank you for it Thank you so much

Thank you for sharing that. You're welcome. I had to tell you because you're very special to me and my family because of that

So thank you. Thank you. But my question then, my related question, is what was your favorite recipe that your mother made for you when you were growing up

Gosh, there was so many things. And I'm so sorry for your loss

I know exactly how you feel. because I lost my parents young

And that's a very hard age for you to lose a parent

But my mother made many wonderful things that I just adored. But I have to tell you this

My mother was the divinity queen, honey. Nobody could make divinity like my mother

That's probably my favorite thing. All right, y'all, this has got to cool for us

So while it's cooling, let's take a quick break. And when we come back, we're going to put this pie together

and we're going to taste it, and it's going to be more partying. Coming up y a delicious Andy Bar pie

Y'all are so sweet and so giving and so loving, and I thank y'all for that

In case you've just tuned in, what is your favorite food from your childhood

That's what we're doing today. And we're fixing to finish our pie

Now, I had to let that chocolate cool, and so it's almost hard again

But I'm going to fix that. Well, first I'll pull me out a little candy bar

No, I'm not. I could. I want to. What I'm going to do now to

fluff up our filling is I'm going to use a whipped topping that comes in the little containers

It rhymes with tool. Chips. Chips

What is this now? Tool chips. That's what we're going to use

But actually, I have to tell y'all, when I'm making desserts and it calls for a whipped topping

I always take fresh whipped cream and whip it myself and sweeten it

because I just think there's nothing any better on the tongue than real whipped cream

But, you know, if you don't want to fool with it, this will be fine. Now, because of the stiffness of our candy

Normally, I would say we're going to fold this in, but this may be rather hard to fold

So I think I'm going to have to do it like this, almost kind of mix it in and, yeah, cut it

Did somebody say cut it? Yes. I'm going to have to kind of cut it in

And it's not going to take but just a couple of minutes. But while I'm doing this now, I want you all to talk to me some more

What, darling? What's your question? Southerners have passion. And my question is, because your passion is cooking

when your grandchild is old enough to cook, what is the first recipe you're going to teach him

Gosh. There's going to be so many things. And I don't know, probably one of the first things I'll cook for him

would be like cheese grits. You know, maybe his first table food

But I've already got his cookware. It's hanging in my kitchen. And that's where I'm going to be bringing Jack

And I like to encourage everybody to pull their kids into their kitchen

Just some of the most wonderful memories are formed there, don't you think? All right, so now I'm going to just pour this batter into the crust

Now, I've got a question for y'all. I got this pile spread out

Who wants to lick the bowl? Oh, my goodness, I can't choose

I can't choose between y'all. So whoever gets to it the fastest? Isn't it yummy

So now our pie is going to go into the refrigerator to set

But... But I have one that's already chilled. Ooh. Chop, chop

You know, that first piece that you take out is the dainiest, most delicate piece

Let's see. I've got some chocolate syrup here. Why not, right

Yeah. Whoa! I'm getting trembly

I'm so excited. And y'all want me to show you what mine and Michael's favorite diet candy is? Yes

You can eat as many as you want to. They're diet bites

So we'll just tuck him right in there. All right, let's bring him out

Doesn't he look beautiful? Y'all drooling yet? Me too

When we come back, it's more of Paula's Party. Coming up, y'all, a golden sponge cake with a creamy filling

And later, making candy with a man who's handy. Today's party, y'all, is all about childhood favorites all grown up

Well, I got the sweetest email from these two sisters. And these two sisters are here with us today

All right, tell everybody who you are. I'm Sarah. And I'm Tammy

Sarah and Tammy. Yes, ma'am. Well, y'all are just beautiful. Oh, thank you

Now, what recipe are we doing today? We're going to do a golden sponge cake with a creamy filling, one of our childhood favorites

All right, well, y'all got pictures there? Yes. There's our recipe. Well, you can call that out to me

Okay. Those are pictures of my sister and I when we were young

The interesting thing behind our story is that we did not get to know each other or find each other until about six years ago

No. Yes, ma'am. Actually, my sister is two years older than I, and she was given up for adoption, and then we found each other

And through our many trials and adventures of getting to know one another, there's several things that we have in common as sisters

and one of them shopping of course and John Travolta And you Watching you Absolutely That is wonderful God bless y

That's one of the sweetest stories. Now tell me about the recipe

Kind of come up with it together. It's kind of a collaboration. Well, why don't we get started

Okay. And what I want y'all to do is walk me through it and tell me each step

Okay. Now how did this cake appear here? That cake's very simple

It's a boxed cake mix, a yellow moist cake mix. Okay, now what do I do now

Okay, in a saucepan, you're going to combine your five tablespoons of flour and one cup of milk

Okay, now I want to slowly add that milk so that flour won't lump

Right. Is that right? Yeah. And you'll just stir that until that gets thick

Nice and thick, and it's probably going to be almost pasty-like, isn't it

Yes, ma'am. All right, does that look right? That looks good. All right, can y'all see that

I mean, that is really... That's perfect. Perfect. Really, really thick. The next thing you're going to do is have one cup of sugar

Okay, I got it. Half a teaspoon of salt. I got it

And I got two of your favorite ingredients here. I see that! Half a cup of shortening and a half a cup of butter softened

Ooh, I know just what this is going to taste like. Yeah. And one teaspoon of vanilla

And you're just going to blend that all together until it's really fluffy. Okay

All right, so we're going to let this cool, because if we put this in hot in with our butter and our shortening

it would, like, melt it, wouldn't it? and break it down too much

So I'm going to sit it there in the ice water. Now, am I going to be slicing this cake

Am I doing anything to it? Yes, ma'am. You're going to slice it. Oh, gosh. You know I'm not good at that

Nor are we. Y'all are not. All right, well, I'm going to eyeball this thing

I did pretty good, didn't I? All right, so let's check on our..

Oh, gosh, that got it cold quick. Quick, that was wonderful. All right, so now what I do

Now you're going to add that mixture to your sweet mixture. Okay

It's going to make it really light and fluffy and airy. That's it. Ooh

Okay. And that really does taste just like a flinky. A flinky

All right. Going to spread that on your bottom piece? When my boys were little, they always said

Mama, you clean the bowl too good. Bring it to the edge

Yes, ma'am. All right, put the top back on it. And then cut it kind of in the shape of it

All right, you come up and show me how to cut it. Come on, Sarah

Come on up. OK. Just kind of cut it lengthwise like this. Uh-huh

This is your plate? OK. There you go. Now we add powdered sugar and a sprig of mint

Y'all come on in here and let's taste this. Come on, Sarah, dig in

Wait, we got to make a toast. Okay. This was one of the sweetest stories that I've heard just lately

and I'm so proud and happy for both of y'all because we get one shot around

That's right. And family is without a doubt the most important thing in the whole world. Absolutely

Yes, ma'am. And I'm so glad that y'all found each other and you have enriched my life by being here with me

Aw, thank you. You enriched our father. Thank you. So we'll be back in a minute

Coming up, y'all, we're gonna be making a yummy homemade peppermint bark

Welcome back, everybody

I have had so much fun at our party today, I can't tell y'all how fun y'all have been

Well, I want to share with y'all in this next recipe a candy that really takes me way, way, way back

And that's peppermint. And every Christmas, Santa Claus would put one of those long candy canes

in mine and Bubba's stocking, and, you know, they're about that big around

I mean, every Christmas, I could count on that, some walnuts and an orange

in the toe of that stocking. You know what? In order to make this next recipe

I'm going to need the help of a strong man. Look, I see somebody out there flexing, y'all

You got one. What's your... Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. I want to make my wife jealous

So give me a hug. Oh, you're huggable. Thank you. All right

Now, I happen to know what your name is. Yeah. Ralph? Ralph, no

Oh, it's not? Give me another one. Zacharias? Sounds good. I'm Maury

Maury, I was close. Well, I tell you what. I actually need your help, Maury

Okay. What I'm fixing to make is called a peppermint bark. But I need somebody to help me crumble up the peppermint sticks

Okay. Now, I've got you a hammer over there and a bag with some candy canes in it

So if you'll go over there, and I'm going to do the same here. Nah, that's my hammer

Okay, I'll take this one. Okay, I like this one better. All right, so you got your peppermint canes in your bag, right

Got them right here. Well, you know what to do from here on out. I gonna chop these things right Yeah we gonna chop them We need about a cup of peppermint chunks But listen now don do it too fine okay Okay Because you want to know when you bite into that candy that you eating peppermint cakes

So chop, chop. Chop, chop, chop. Can I stop and take a break now

Yes, you can take a break. This is tough work. Already overworked

I'm working up a sweat. That's the lights, baby. I don't know about you

I'm done. Turn me over. You most certainly are done. Okay. Thank you

Thank you, darling. You were a wonderful candy beater. Thank you. All right

So I have melted two pounds of white chocolate. Doesn't that look delicious

Yes. All right, now to our melted chocolate, look how velvety. I've got to just show y'all

This is just like velvet. So let me run over here and see how

Maury! You lazy little devil. Just like a man

Y'all know what I'm talking about. You said not too fine

What? You said not too fine. I didn't say not at all

All right. So now to our chocolate, I'm going to mix... I don't know

I'm going to start with like a half a teaspoon of peppermint extract

And then I'm going to taste because we might need some more

We do. So, another half. So, y'all, I finally wound up putting

about two teaspoons of peppermint extract in this. Now I'm going to pour in probably, maybe..

every one of them. That's probably about a cup. Now you can put as much or as little as you like

Now you just mix it up and spread it out on a cookie sheet with wax paper

until it's about a half an inch thick. It's great to make this around the holiday time

and put it in jars and put a little ribbon around it

and give it as a gift. All right. So at this point, all we would do is take our peppermint bark

put it in the refrigerator, give it a chance to harden up, and it looks like this

Can everybody see it? All right, so let's talk about our candy

They have a hammer out here for me, but I think a hammer would probably be too rough for our candy

So all you're going to do is just break this into sizes that you want

I am a sorry miss. I'm sending you a big one. Wait, wait

I heard something clump. Are you all right? That was a bad aim, y'all

So this is all we have to do is just break it up into the pieces that you want

jar it up, put it in an old tin. Well, how'd y'all like the candy

You get some! When we come back, y'all, more Apollo's party! See y'all back in a second

Coming up, Nacho Mama's Banana Pudding. And later, recreating my favorite childhood treat

Is that Yummy Dan? Have y'all had fun kind of stepping back into your childhood

Yes. I love going back. I can't go back enough. And I got an email from somebody

and they said that they just loved those cookies, you know. They're dark and they've got that white cream center

They're kind of like glorios, you know. Well, they emailed me and said that that was their favorite childhood memory food

Y'all, come on up here. Come here. I want you to tell

All right now, what are y'all to each other y'all brother and sister? No, no no we're engaged

Oh, you're engaged Can she cook? I try I try well he likes to cook too. He does do you mind if I borrow him

No, go right ahead. Come on Eric I'll be very chill with him Halle

All right, so you like these little cookies, do you? Oh, yes, ma'am

You still like them? Mm-hmm. Do you like dunk them in milk

Oh, yes. Smoking. And do you like them crumbled up on your ice cream? Mm-hmm

There, you are. That cookie. So I'm going to show you a quick dessert, Eric. Mm-hmm

You got dimples too. I need some milk. You need some milk

Well, I ain't got no milk, but here, chase it down with that. Get that milk

It did. Good. It's kind of like a... Liquid. It worked perfectly. Good

All right. The recipe actually says to put the bananas in first, but I don't like that

So let's start with your favorite. Let's start with a cookie. You want to? All right

Yes, ma'am. OK, so put about half those cookies in our trifle bowl

Yeah, maybe a third. Good enough for them. That's good enough. All right, now let's put a layer of bananas

I use my hand, but I have to... Well, wash them first. Okay. Come right over here and wash them

because I don't know where they've been. All right. Here, I have you a towel

Oh, thank you. All right, now come on over here and put a layer of bananas in there

This is kind of not like your mama's banana pudding, is it? No, ma'am. All right, I think that's probably enough

You know, you can really do this any way you want to. That's what I love about a recipe

That's what I love about cooking. All right, now sprinkle us some nuts over it, please

You know, you can, that's plenty. Okay. The first time around, you know, make the recipe, go by the recipe

But then after that, make it your own. because there's certain things that you like

that somebody else may not like. So you just fix it to suit that little black tongue in your mouth

All right, so now let's put a squirt of chocolate, don't you

All right. I don't know if it calls for that, but let's do it anyway

Because you and me, we like it, don't we? All right, now put a layer of whipped cream on there

Now don't get it on the side of the bowl, Eric. Be clean

See, like up there? Can y'all see it? You missed a spot

Oh, I'm sorry. And that's all I'm going to say about that

Looks good. All right, more chocolate crumbs. Just tell me when

Okay. When? Oh. All right, we'll spread that out. All right. More bananas

I think my big fat head was in the way of your camera shot

You all right, Eric? Oh, I'm good. Can you all see that

We've got our glorios. We got our bananas we got our nuts we got some whipping cream some heavy whipped cream more Glorios more bananas Let put a few more nuts on

Chocolate syrup! Ooh, Eric, you got quite a hand for chocolate

Thank you. All right, now nuts. Whoa. Okay. Now whipping cream. You want me to show you how to make it real pretty

I do. Alright, you be the cameraman and I'll be the squirt man

All right, listen. And the last is, you got it

All right. Now, I wanted you to save just a few nuts. Mm-hmm

And I wanted you to save just a few glorious crumbs. Why don't we just do a little bitty squirt

So how is that, Eric? That looks good. Isn't that beautiful? Yes, ma'am

You want some? Mm-hmm. Guess what, y'all? Y'all are going to get some of this, too. Yeah

Hey, y'all, let it all out. And when we come back, we're partying even more

And more! Coming up, my favorite candy that's all grown up. A turtle candy pizza

Welcome back, y'all. We're still working on those childhood foods that we so loved

What is that, y'all? It's a turtle. When I was little, both sets of my grandparents lived in Florida

And that was about the only vacations that we took. And along the way, there was always a Horns or a Stucky's

Are y'all familiar with that? I could not wait until we got to these stores

because there was a candy in there that I just did adore

And that was a turtle. Well today I gonna take us back but we gonna do them a little different We gonna do them in a little bit more grown fashion I gonna share with you a recipe that I really like for like parties and things like that

And we're gonna start with a flour tortilla shell. And I'm gonna cut them into eighths

And this is just real easy. If you do it this way, you just about can't mess up

And every piece will be like perfect. All right, now we're going to take our shells

And y'all are going to ask me in a few minutes, well, Paula, why'd you do that

It would be so much easier if you had left that completely whole

And you're right, it would be. But that once they get crisp, you can't cut them

They would crack into a bunch of little different pieces. And that's okay if these overlap

We're going to stuff them in the oven, and we're going to bake them for, gosh, probably about eight minutes

at about 350 degrees. So I've got some ready. All right, now I've got some that's dried out and crisp it up for us

I don't think that's a word. Is it crisped? Is that a word

All right. Now, to put our turtles together, we're going to take our shells

You watching, Hallie? Okay, you got a big hungry man there that you got to learn how to cook for

And if you want diamonds, you must do this. You know, they say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

All right, now I've got just some regular little bites of caramel candies

And you know what I'm talking about, don't you? And I have melted them down with a little condensed milk

Not evaporated milk, but condensed milk. You know, the real sweet milk that comes in the can

All right, so I'm going to take some of our caramel. Well, she is here, don't you, Eric

I'm gonna bring it over. Ouchie. It's a little warm. And I'm gonna spread that onto our pie shell

Whoo And now in this bowl I got just some regular melted chocolate

And I've melted these both over a water bath. And now I'm going to spread it with a little chocolate

I'm just going to help it out a little bit. Oh, and I'm going to let a little of that caramel stick out

You know how those turtles do? And now a turtle ain't a turtle without some nuts

The old-timey turtle and the new-timey turtle. All right, I've got a plate full that's been done down here

Come here, Dan. Take it. Come here, Jim. Come on in with that camera

Taste. Is that Yummy Dan? They're delicious

Do you know what all this food reminds me of? Can anybody guess

It reminds me of Hula Hoops. Don't you remember? Come up here, girlfriend

Bring on the hula hoops. Now I have to have the pink

because it matches me, okay? Okay. Here we go. All right. I just feel something bad coming on

All right. All right. One, two, three, go. You are good

How can I not do that? Gotta keep it up here now

Maybe it's because I don't have a waist anymore. Well, I'm gonna be working on this

And maybe the next time we see each other, I'll have it down pat again. Until next time, y'all, I send you love and best dishes

From Paula's party to yours. Thank you