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Full Episode Fridays: Home Sweet Home - 4 Classic Southern Home-Cooking Recipes
Mar 19, 2021
4 Classic Southern Home-Cooking Recipes - In episode 4 of Paula's Best Dishes, Paula shares 4 classic Southern home cooked comfort food recipes!
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01:03 Beef Stroganoff Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/beef-stroganoff/
02:21 Okra & Tomatoes Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/okra-and-tomatoes/
15:03 Never-Fail Pound Cake Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/never-fail-pound-cake/
18:28 Apple Fritters Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/apple-fritters/
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y'all i can honestly say that i had the
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most delightful childhood
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today my brother papa and i are
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reminiscing about the good old days
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and just cooking up some family
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favorites
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first it's a hearty beef stroganoff
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whoa about lost my noodles
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then it's our mama's recipe for okra and
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tomatoes
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i'm not gonna tell you no but dessert
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how about grandma nelly lou's never fail
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pound cake
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and to finish it off grandma paul's
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delicious apple fritters
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our two grandmas i'm in here in the
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kitchen with that sweet little brother
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who's not so little anymore
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he's still sweet but he ain't little
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uh we are recreating
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some things that we remember our mother
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cooking in the kitchen when we were
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growing
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up and one of my favorite things bubba
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was mama's
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beef stroganoff do you remember her beef
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stroganoff gosh yes
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it was so good bubba has cut the round
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steak and tossed it in a little bit of
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flour and he's browned it off in half
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butter
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and half olive oil i'm gonna be slicing
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up the mushrooms the onions
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you know bubba and i try to set aside a
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little time
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to uh spin with each other because we
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live in
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very very busy times yeah and invariably
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we wind up
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talking about the good old days
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you know i remember us girls having
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spent the night parties
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what i remember about your girlfriends
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they put me in a blanket
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in the in the living room and y'all
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would all grab a corner
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and throw me to the ceiling and i was
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just
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having a big time you don't remember
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that oh i do
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i'm gonna take the meat out and thanks
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for chopping my
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onions and my mushrooms and and you know
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wow now i'm gonna be adding these
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i've got my water boiling for the
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noodles okay for our stroganoff so you
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can just finish that
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i'm gonna saute the onions and the
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mushrooms
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okey-dokey so we'll let that cook for a
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few minutes
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and you know bubba one of my favorite
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vegetables
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what's that as a kid was mama's okra and
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tomatoes
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and down here i've got some fresh
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tomatoes
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you want to come down here and slice the
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okra okay
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and i'll peel these tomatoes i'll keep
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an eye on your
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mushrooms and onions paul i was thinking
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do you remember daddy's daddy's office
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number i i was gonna ask you
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i absolutely do what was his office
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number was 20336.
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20336. and i would i would remember
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calling daddy and saying
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diddy diddy he said oh no he can i
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borrow
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50 cents and he'd say yeah blue come on
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down here and get
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it now why did he call you blue because
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i dyed my hair so black it was
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blue let me tell you what
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daddy's nickname for bubba he was so
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mean to me wasn't he
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no he was he loved you to pieces but he
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called bobby mildred
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now i don't know why
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he really did he called me mildred do i
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look like a mildred it's a wonder bubble
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was not screwed up for the rest of his
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life
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cause bubba would act kind of um like an
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old woman i think sometimes i don't know
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but do you remember bubba us
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now sick daddy i know you're up in
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heaven you shouldn't have done this
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but you encouraged bubba not a fight
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every minute he was home which which
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story are you going to tell
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what do you remember you remember you
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would you would hear a new joke
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and you would that's the story i was
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going to tell you i would tell it
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well no well so we're still we're still
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remembering the same stuff
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well daddy would come home and i'd heard
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a joke
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and i wanted to tell daddy this joke
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and paula would pretend like she'd never
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heard it
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and she'd be standing daddy i'd be
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facing daddy i was about this tall
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and paula would be standing right there
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on the side and as soon
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as i'd get to the punch line she would
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jump in
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between us and she would tell him the
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punchline
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and and i would just go to wailing on
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her you
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i'd get these little hands going like
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this and she'd be backed up in the
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corner just laughing
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you would go bonkers and do you would go
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bonkers when i'd give the punchline he'd
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be standing over there laughing too
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oh and daddy would get so tickled
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and he wanted it he's safe screwed up
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get her mildred
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get her and i'm doubled over in the
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corner just about to wet my britches
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laughing
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cause bubba is so mad all right so bubba
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you can toss that meat in there and go
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ahead and
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okay well let me add a teaspoon of flour
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and i got our tomatoes peeled and i'm
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just kind of rough chopping them cause
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they're going in the pot
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and they will cook down you know you can
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use canned tomatoes for this
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um canned tomatoes work beautifully but
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if you got fresh
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you know if you're making this during
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the summer there's nothing better than
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fresh tomatoes
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all right i'm gonna check my noodles all
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right with
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they're doing this is looking delicious
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our mushrooms and our onions are
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tender oh it looks good
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all right now all we're gonna do at this
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point y'all is add a can of beef broth
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and a can of cream of mushroom soup
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i'm gonna turn that up a little bit
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bubba all right ten and three quarter
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ounce can
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you know mama was good at making dishes
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that you
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uh ate along with like rice or
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mashed potatoes i remember i remember
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mama made the best short ribs of anybody
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in the world i remember her being a good
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cook
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but she was fabulous i don't remember
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every dish
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that she made all right here's every
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dish you don't remember
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ever dish every dish that's that's
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you're so country sounding bubba i know
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it
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i guess that because i'm just old
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country of course i don't sound a bit
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country how long are we going to cook
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this for you
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we're going to put it on low heat and
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simmer for about 30 minutes okay that
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sounds great
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and i'm gonna gather up our tomatoes and
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our okra and they're gonna go in the pot
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okay the pasta's almost ready so we'll
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take a quick
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break okay and then we'll come back
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and we'll pull these dishes together and
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continue our walk down memory lane oh
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good
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we'll see y'all in a minute up next
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y'all
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it's my mama's okra and tomatoes and
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later
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grandma's pound cake and the most
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delicious
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apple fritters you have ever put in your
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mouth
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oh that's beautiful look at that pretty
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oh yes
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back after the break
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[Music]
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bubba i think this is ready oh it looks
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delicious
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it does now all i've got to do now y'all
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at this point
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is add some sour cream to it so why
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don't you get the noodles yeah get the
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noodles ready bubba
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and i'm going to stir in the sour cream
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now you want to make sure that you add
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the sour cream the very
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last couple of minutes before you serve
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it
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looks great bubba the noodles look
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delicious too
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well i'm so glad
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i mean a noodle is a noodle is a noodle
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you know what i mean
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so see how that sour cream has taken it
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from kind of a dark brown to
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a nice light brown
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and you can serve this y'all on any type
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of noodle
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anywhere from a fettuccine heck you
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could serve it on a macaroni noodle
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as far as that's concerned or like i
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said the way mama used to serve it
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was over rice now after you put in your
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sour cream you
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really don't want this to come to a ball
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you just kind of want to simmer it on
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low so i'm going to cut this down okay
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and i'm gonna dip you up whoa
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about lost my noodles
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i've done that on more than one occasion
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um yeah every now and then
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there you go i like to mix mine up
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oh oh well then i'm fixing my own bowl
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because
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that's the way michael eats now see i
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like mine right on top
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really and i don't like to mix it i like
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to go through the
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layers because see mine's much prettier
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than yours
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oh yes i forgot the parsley this is a
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great
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belly warming dish
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you know bubba
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[Music]
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you know what finished it off the side
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cream
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it's out of this world bubba wow well
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let's move on down here bubba
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okay to okra and tomatoes all right now
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y'all i've got a
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black skillet heating here i've got some
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bacon down here you can go ahead and eat
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your beef stroganoff bubba
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i'm just gonna dice up some bacon
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probably about six slices bubba that i'm
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dicing up
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oh we gonna render that
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fat okay yeah smelling good out of that
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bacon and
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i'm gonna add just a wee little bit of
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oil okay
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and just a wee little bit of butter
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are we a wee little bit yes what's a
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weed
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we is we can sometimes be this
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or we can be bad we like depending
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on yes depending on what kind of mood we
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are in
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all right well let me tell y'all what i
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have
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these are onion goggles really
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all they need is some diamonds around
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them now well i'll work on that next
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cause some people are just very very
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sensitive to onions
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so this is the perfect smell that onion
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is that burning your eyes
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just a little bit well you don't have
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makeup on because you don't have too
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much that's too bad
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the bacon is smelling good that's got my
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attention you know what
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i've always said i wanted to come up
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with a room deodorizer
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that smelled like bacon and onions oh i
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would buy it
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okay now i'm gonna go on and throw in
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our garlic
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got a couple of cloves of fresh garlic
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and i'm gonna toss in our onions
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one medium onion yeah okay
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and i got a bell pepper over here all
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right
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and i'm gonna finish dicing it up
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so this this is our mama's recipe too
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isn't it well you know
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yeah yeah this is the way mama cooked it
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and
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what did she serve us with it paula oh
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my goodness she
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you know mama always cooked all those
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vegetables bubba
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but you always when you had okra and
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tomatoes
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mama always cooked a pot of rice
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all right bubba i'm gonna toss in about
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a half a teaspoon
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of um seasoning salt about a tablespoon
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of chicken base okay garlic powder yes
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maybe just like a fourth of a teaspoon
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four cups of tomatoes and those are
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gonna cook down
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now i'm adding four cups of cut fresh
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okra y'all
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a cup of water now if we were using
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canned tomatoes
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you know they come with the tomato juice
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so you might not have to do this so
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we're just gonna let that
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sit down bubba okay probably a half an
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hour
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oh oh a drop but let's clean up this
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mess
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and when we come back what we're gonna
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do
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we're gonna make one of your favorite
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cakes that the
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sweetest little grandma in the whole
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world used to make
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coming up it's just the perfect never
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fail pound cake
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oh yeah look at that and later on
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it's crispy apple fritters y'all
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let's get back to the show y'all
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[Music]
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hey y'all i'm so glad that you came back
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bubba and i in here in the kitchen
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uh it's all about home sweet home today
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y'all and our okra and tomatoes look
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great and you know i told you that mama
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always served this with rice yes
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so let's put a little rice in our bowl
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and a little butter
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you know just a little bit of butter i'm
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not gonna tell you no
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all right dip you up some of those okras
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and tomatoes
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and see if that doesn't bring back some
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sweet memories
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and of course mama always had oh i'll
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just dip me a little bit you
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you you eat a little bit more than i do
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bubba
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believe it or not there you go
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and course if we were back at home at
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1600 whitney avenue
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we'd have a piece of lace hockey oh my
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god
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oh i love the lace remember the bail she
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had on the back porch
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and she'd come out there when it was
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time for
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if it was a weekend for lunch or mainly
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supper time
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she'd go out down that back porch and
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ring that bell she'd ring that bell
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and i could hear it half a mile away i
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know
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you knew it was and i was barefooted in
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my shorts
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with no shirt on running down the alley
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i've got so many pictures of you like
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that
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and those little shorts and barefooted
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we got so many funny stories i'm telling
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you
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remember the horse the pony
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oh gosh get on down here and let's make
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cake we'll wind up here talking all day
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long
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i know those are so funny yes i'm
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telling you
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what i i that dated
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let's get to making this cake okay i'll
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see if i can't tell this story this is
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granny paul oh no granny hi
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this is grandmother hires never failed
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pound cake
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and it's one stick of butter that's been
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softened three cups of sugar
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now we're just gonna cream this butter
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and sugar together
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until it's kind of creamy and then i'm
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gonna crack these five eggs that i've
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got here in front of me
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okay and i'm gonna just drop those in
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one at the time while you continue to
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cream
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all right you got all the eggs in here
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yes i got all my
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it's looking good yeah it does it looks
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real good now we're gonna alternately
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add three cups of cake flour with one
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cup of milk and we're gonna start with
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our flour and always end with your flour
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okay
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just makes for a creamier cake
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now this is finally i finally got the
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last of the flour
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now grandma hires always flavored her
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pound cakes bubba
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with some kind of uh extract
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okay so we're gonna put in two teaspoons
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of lemon extract
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and i remember these as a kid mama
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always saved us a beater ditch oh yes
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all right so in our pan this
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goes but you'd always get my beater too
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yes you know i was pretty smart but even
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baby
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you know it but so long i was bigger
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and brighter you know i was bigger and i
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was older than you
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all right bub i'm just gonna give that a
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shake to level it out so
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if you'd get this in the oven i'll start
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cleaning up everything
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okay granny hires her recipe called
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starting out in a cold oven once you put
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the cake in then you put it on 325
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degrees
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and cook it for one hour for one hour
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okay sounds good to me
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and then we're gonna cook it at 350 for
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a half an hour and not open the oven at
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all
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you cannot peek oh while you're baking
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this cake y'all
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so remember cold oven no
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peeky
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[Laughter]
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that sounds great and this is gonna be
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so
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so good there's nothing better that i
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love than a warm piece of pancake
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straight out of the oven
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none better than me either up next
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it's apple fritters and pound cake y'all
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you know you're the best brother i am
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i so hope y'all are enjoying the show
17:59
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be right back
18:09
after the break
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now we just took our grandma hires his
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never fail pound cake
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out of the oven now i'm just gonna turn
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this
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out and let it rest just for a minute
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because that's all it's gonna take us to
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get our apple fritters together
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and they're so easy to make i've got my
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self-rising flour here
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okay i've got an egg
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beat that up and i'm gonna add a half a
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cup of milk
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okay a couple of teaspoons of sugar a
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teaspoon of
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cinnamon and one cup of sour cream
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i've got some all heating up over here
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i'm using peanut oil y'all
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maybe a half a cup so now i'm gonna add
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one cup of self-rising flour now you've
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been
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pairing our granny smith apples
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you've got them peeled right and
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bubba is cutting them about a fourth of
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an inch thick
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these look great so we'll just
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niche out the core and then we're just
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gonna
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run these through our fritter batter
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so from the batter
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to the frying pan
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[Music]
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i love cooking with you you know that i
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know it and i love cooking with you
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look at that y'all look bubba
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oh that's beautiful look at that freddie
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oh yes
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doesn't that look great oh you ain't
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kidding this is gonna and like i said
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it's not gonna take but just just a
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minute or so
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on each side and you can see when your
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batter
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starts forming bubbles that it's about
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time for you to turn it
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all right so baba our apples are ready
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all right good don't they look
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delicious absolutely i'm just going to
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put them on paper drain a little bit
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let them drain a second okay and i've
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got some powdered sugar over here
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okay good just going to sprinkle them
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with a little powdered sugar
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and i think this is so wonderful you and
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i are standing up in our kitchen
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in our age preparing one
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recipe from each grandmother it's taken
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me back paula so many years i know it
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well i know it has you too
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let's come on down here now okay and
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check out
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little nelly lou's pound cake
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nelly hires nellie lou savage hires
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oh yeah look at that
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[Music]
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our two grandmas that pound cake
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mmm it's perfect
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oh my goodness look at that mm-hmm
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perfect you know you're the best brother
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i
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am oh you're the only brother
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