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4 Vintage Candy Recipes - Paula is making old fashioned candy recipes, including a candied pecans recipe, vintage fudge recipe, butter cookies recipe, and more. Paula’s Home Cooking, Season 3, Episode 16.
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00:00 Intro
2:44 Almond Chocolate Balls Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/almond-chocolate-balls/
6:56 Old-Time Chocolate Fudge Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/old-time-chocolate-fudge/
8:03 Pecan-Praline Morsels Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/pecan-praline-morsels/
11:49 Butter Fingers Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/butter-fingers/
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0:00
- Hey y'all, I'm Paula Dean.
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Now y'all hold onto your sweet tooth,
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grab your candy jar and forget about counting those carbs,
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'cause today we're sweetening the pot
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with some of my confectionary creations.
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Now that's just a fancy way of saying
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we're making candy today, y'all,
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but before we get started,
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we got to run down to the Primary Art Supply.
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It's a neat little shop here in Savannah,
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and we can pick up some craft materials
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to wrap up all our pint-size pleasures.
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Then we gonna head back to my kitchen
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where I'm gonna be rolling out
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my chocolate almond coconut balls
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that are melt-in-your-mouth delicious.
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Now candy is dandy,
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but if you really want to tempt my sweet tooth,
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it's gotta be chocolate.
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So it's my old timey chocolate fudge that's next.
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And if that's not enough to keep you sticking around,
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then my pecan praline morsels are sure to win you over.
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And last, but certainly not least,
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it's my butternut fingers that are a twist
0:56
on an old traditional treat.
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So y'all don't go away and miss all the fun
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'cause we're dining on dessert all day at my house.
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Guess what time it is, boys and girls.
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It's candy time.
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And whether it's Valentine's, 4th of July,
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Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas,
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not only is it fun to eat and make these,
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it's fun to dress them up.
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So that's what we're going to be doing today.
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Y'all come along with me because
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it's candy time!
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(upbeat folksy music)
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You know, we're very lucky here in Savannah
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because we're the home of SCAD,
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Savannah College of Art and Design,
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so we have some great art supply stores.
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Well, right now I'm in Primary Art Supply
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and they have some neat things.
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Look, this looks like a little pie server.
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Why would an artist need that?
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And look at this.
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The perfect mayonnaise spreader.
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(folksy Southern music)
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So I'm just kind of enjoying browsing.
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In fact, on this one little rack, you've got your gift bags.
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So everything you need is right here except for the gift.
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And I'm going to take care of that one.
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This will be great to wrap our candies in.
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Oh my goodness.
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They've got lips!
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(folksy Southern music)
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Hey!
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(folksy Southern music)
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I just adore making candies.
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I just love it.
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So I'm going to share
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the almond coconut balls with you first.
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Now I've got two boxes of confectioner's sugar
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and I'm gonna add one stick of a really softened butter.
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I'm gonna add one can of sweetened condensed milk.
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Now I'm gonna to put a teaspoon of almond flavoring,
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a bag of sweetened flake coconut.
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And I'm gonna finish this off with a cup and a half
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of chopped almonds.
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(Paula laughing)
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Your hands, kids, kinda look like
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the abominable snowman when you pull them out.
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(Paula laughing)
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All right, and see how quickly we've gotten that together.
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Doesn't take long at all.
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Okay, gotta do a quick wash up.
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(water running)
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I've got me a cookie sheet ready here
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and y'all will notice that these are no-cook candies.
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Now this is the boring part, making balls.
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So you might want to whistle in for the family
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'cause before you know it,
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you get to talking and chatting and laughing
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and having a good time, and all the balls are done.
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I'm bored already.
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'Cause I got some ready in the refrigerator,
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so there ain't no sense in me doing this, is it?
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All right.
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Here's our chilled balls.
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Now I'm gonna take chocolate chips.
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Now you can use semi-sweet
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or unsweet.
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All right, I'm gonna use a half a bar of paraffin wax.
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And that's wax that you use to like make your jellies
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and jams with.
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And this is gonna make the chocolate stick to our candy.
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So I'm just gonna melt that over some boiling water.
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It's gonna make our balls real, real, shiny and pretty.
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Way to go, Paula.
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All right.
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Now we're going to take our candy.
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We're going to stick a skewer into it.
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You can use a toothpick,
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but I've found that the skewers are heavier
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and it just works better.
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So we just gonna run them around in there.
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Using another stick I'm gonna push that off
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and just cover that hole.
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Pretty neat little trick, isn't it?
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So we're going to do that same thing again.
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Perfect.
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All right, I tell y'all something.
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This has made me so hungry.
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I've got some in the refrigerator that's already set
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'cause you can leave these out on the counter
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or you can put them in the refrigerator.
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Well, I want to rush it along.
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So I put mine in the refrigerator.
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So why don't we stop and have a little bite of candy
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and then I'll come back and do these while we're on break.
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How good these look and they've hardened up.
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Now these candies are good at any holiday.
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Look at those chocolates.
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(laughing)
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Y'all stick around 'cause when we come back,
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I'm gonna be making old timey fudge,
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like I used to make years ago.
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And pecan praline morsels.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
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And if you do.
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Be sure to click like, subscribe and
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notification bell so you'll never miss a video.
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And we'll be right back after the break.
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All right, I'm gathering up the last
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of the things that I'm going to need to make two
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of my candies that I love so very much,
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but let's get started with our old timey fudge right now.
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And I'm going to put three cups of sugar
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and a cup of evaporated milk.
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I'm to put that on this side,
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and then over here,
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I'm going to put our cocoa
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and we're just gonna incorporate that real good
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until our sugar has dissolved and our cocoa
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is well blended in there.
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All right, now I'm going to stir in about three tablespoons
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of a white corn syrup,
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and this is going to make our candy just come all together.
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Like I said, you just want to make sure you have a good
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thermometer that you can read.
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Some of them today, they're hard to read.
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All right, so I'm going to go ahead
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and clip this on to our pot.
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Yeah, we're just
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150 degrees right now.
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So we're going to just let that cook over
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kind of medium heat.
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So we'll want to keep a close eye on our thermometer.
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All right, now over here,
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we're going to move on to our pecan praline morsels.
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I've got my two cups of pecans here
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and I've got a half a cup of light brown sugar
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and a half a cup of heavy cream.
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The brown sugar and the heavy cream
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are going to give it kind of a praline coating
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on these pecans,
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and they're just going to be so good.
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Now we're going to put these on our pan.
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We're going to put them in 350 preheated oven,
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and we're going to let them bake for about 20 minutes.
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After about 10 minutes,
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I'm going to go the oven and stir them
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because you have to be very, very careful with nuts
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because if they burn,
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which they will burn easily,
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there's just nothing you can do
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to get that burn taste out of them.
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All right, so we're going to give our pan a squirt.
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All right, we're going to dump these onto our cookie sheet.
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All right.
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So let's get these in the oven.
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'Cause I've got to give my attention back to that fudge.
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All right.
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10 Minutes, we'll give those a quick little turn
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to just make sure they're not burning.
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It's right there, y'all.
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Around 234, 235 if this thermometer is reading properly.
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All right.
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I'm going to take that out,
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and I'm going to add six tablespoons of butter.
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May have been seven tablespoons I added, I can't tell.
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All right, we're going to add about a teaspoon and a half
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of vanilla flavoring and cup of chopped nuts.
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Or about a cup and a half.
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I like to add the pecan to it,
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but you can do walnuts, macadamia nuts.
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All right, we've got our dish nice and buttered.
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Now we're just going to stir this.
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I think to save some wear and tear on my arm,
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I think I'm going to do this with the electric mixer.
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Just a little hand mixer.
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We're going to beat it until it's not quite so shiny.
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(whirring of electric mixer)
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We want to work quickly from this point
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and it looks very good, y'all.
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Let's get this into our buttered dish
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before it gets too hard.
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Let it cool for a few minutes
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and then I'm going to score it and cut it.
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But I think we have created a wonderful pan
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of old timey fudge.
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I've got to run over here and check on these pecans
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'cause I know it's been 10 minutes
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and we need to turn them.
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And toss them around.
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See what we've got.
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Yeah, those look pretty good.
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Just going to give them a quick toss.
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All right, now we're going to stick those in
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for about 10 more minutes.
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Now when we come back,
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I'm going to be making buttery nut fingers.
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So y'all don't go anywhere
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'cause we got some more good, sweet things coming up.
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See you in a couple.
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I hope y'all are enjoying the show
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and I want to hear from you.
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Tell me what recipes or videos you'd like to see me
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make by just leaving a short comment below.
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Now, let's get back to the show, y'all.
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All right, I want to get my spoon out
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because I know I'm going to need it in a minute.
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But in the meantime, we've got to check on our pecans.
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All right.
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Those look delicious, don't they?
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All right, let's...
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Ooh, it's hot.
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Let's get them up and get them in our bowl
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'cause we don't want to keep these on that hot cookie sheet
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because they will continue to cook.
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(scraping of spatula on cookie tray)
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I don't know what happened to all my little spatulas,
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but this one's working out good,
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in fact, I'm really starting to get attached to it.
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Perfect.
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Right, now I'm going to move this
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because we're fixing to move on to
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an old standard of cookie.
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Now this particular recipe that I used
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was my grandmother Paul's
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and Grandma made hers in balls.
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Well, and sometimes I do them that way too.
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But over the years I just started making them in fingers.
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But in the meantime,
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I've got two and a half cups of plain flour
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or all purpose flour,
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three quarters of a cup of granulated sugar.
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We're just going to mix those two ingredients together.
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This cookie is very, very easy,
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but it does take a while
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because they have to bake for about 20 or 25 minutes,
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which is, what, about 15 minutes longer
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than a normal cookie.
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Whoops!
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Pillsbury dough girl.
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All right, now I'm going to start this off
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by using a wooden spoon to just kind of cut that butter
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in there a little.
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All right, now I'm going to put in some vanilla flavoring
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and if you wanted to kind of shake your flavoring up,
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you could do, gosh, just about any kind of flavoring
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you want to.
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Orange flavoring would be nice.
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Almond would be delicious in there.
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All right, now I'm going to add our chopped pecans
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and you can see how quickly me getting my hands in here
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is coming together.
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I still think that some of my best utensils
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are the ones that God gave me.
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These two hands right here.
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They make great spoons and mixers.
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So like I said, my grandmother Paul
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used to roll these into balls,
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but I'm going to roll mine into fingers.
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And I just remembered our oven is on 350 from our pecans.
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So I'm going to reach over here and turn that to 325.
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And if my hands are not too greasy,
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I'm just going to fan it to cool it down for a minute
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because we're ready to put these in the oven.
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All right, so here we go.
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Into the oven.
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Okay, so we got those in the oven,
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but I've gotten dough all over my hands.
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So I'm going to give a quick rinse.
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(water running)
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I love raw cookie dough,
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but I don't want to mix it in with my fudge, so
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do want to get rid of that.
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All right.
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Now I think this is probably my favorite time right now.
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I get to cut into my fudge.
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And let's see how it does.
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Oh, and look, y'all.
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Look down here at my side.
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She's enjoying this unusually cool,
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but wonderful day we're having.
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It's made all the dogs sleepy.
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Including this dog.
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I could take a nap too.
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Look at this wonderful fudge.
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Oh my goodness, this brings back so many memories.
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Oh, it could not be any more perfect.
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It is just hard to beat the old timey cooked fudge.
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Just can't hardly wait.
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Not that this fudge needs it, not at all,
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but I just want to garnish the plate a little bit.
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So I'm just going to dust it with a little cocoa.
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And just to make sure I do have enough nuts on it,
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I'm just going to sprinkle it with a few extra
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'cause I can always take my piece of fudge
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and dunk in there like that and get me a few more nuts.
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Mm.
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This is so good, it's kind of got me dewy eyed.
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I'm lost in it.
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But if I don't work my way out of this,
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we're going to have bud burned...
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If I can say it.
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We're going to have burned buttery fingers.
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So let's go over here and check.
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You can see how they've swelled up a little.
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Those are perfect, just barely a light brown.
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Let's see if I can.
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All right.
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Now we just gonna toss these in our powdered sugar
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while they're warm,
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and look, it's sticking so nicely.
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And I've got me a plate.
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And when we come back, I'm gonna show you some tips
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on how to wrap all these wonderful little goodies up.
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I so hope y'all are enjoying the show.
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And if you do.
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Be sure to click like, subscribe and
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And we'll be right back after the break.
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I want to share a few tips with y'all
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on packaging your candy
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now that we've got it all made.
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You can take tissue papers and it's very, very pretty
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to take two different kinds of tissue paper
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and offset one of them.
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Pile your candy in the center,
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as much as you want to give,
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and then pull up the corners.
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Like so.
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And tie them up with a pretty ribbon.
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(Paula whistles)
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And you've got a perfect container.
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And you can also buy little colored sacks.
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You can get your corresponding colors
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and write a message on them,
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just like this.
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And our pecans will go nicely in these sacks.
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'Cause it kind of looks like a little peanut sack anyway.
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And we'll just tie those up with a pretty ribbon.
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You can use Halloween colors.
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And look how cute that is.
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A great little handout for the children at Halloween.
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So if you don't have time to make your candy,
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don't fret over it.
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Don't feel guilty, don't feel bad.
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You can go to the grocery store or the candy store
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and find all kinds of beautiful candy
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in all different colors.
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And you can package them in a clear bag
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and put the ribbon that matches the occasion on them.
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It's going to make your candy-giving so easy.
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Boys and girls, moms and dads,
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grandmas, and grandpas, aunts, and uncles.
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Whatever you're making of these dishes,
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the butternut fingers, the chocolate almond coconut balls,
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the pecan praline morsels or old timey, old fashioned fudge.
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Whether you want to pass these out at holiday time,
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or you just want to have them around your house
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for your family and friends when they drop in,
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you're going to find that they're all easy,
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delicious recipes.
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So until next time America,
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I want to send y'all best dishes
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from my sweet tooth to yours.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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