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Full Episode Fridays: Ice Cream & Frozen Treats | 4 Summer Frozen Dessert Recipes
Aug 15, 2025
4 Summer Frozen Dessert Recipes - The best kind of summer desserts are cold! Get great frozen desserts to make at home, including an orange ice cream recipe. Paula’s Home Cooking, Season 3, Episode 3.
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00:00 Intro
2:50 Golda’s Frozen Waldorf Salad Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/goldas-frozen-waldorf-salad/
5:30 Lemon Pineapple Sherbet Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/lemon-pineapple-sherbet/
9:03 Ice Cream and Cake Pops Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/ice-cream-and-cake-pops/
13:54 Orange Ice Cream Cups Recipe
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- [Paula] Hi, y'all I'm Paula Dean.
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And whether you're a kid
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or like me, just a kid at heart,
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we all get excited for dessert.
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Well, today I'm gonna get my kitchen turning
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with a perfect dessert.
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Ice cream and other frozen treats.
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But first I gotta head to Abercorn Antique Village,
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to find some things from the past
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to help me out with the present
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and then next I'm gonna turn y'all out,
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a lemon and pineapple sherbet
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that's been around since the turn of the last century.
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And after that, it's a classic frozen Waldorf salad,
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and then last but not least,
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I'm gonna whip y'all up the sweetest orange ice cream cups
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that are perfect for serving anytime.
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So y'all grab your spoon and your favorite topping,
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'cause we're all screaming for ice cream.
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- Well, guess what, y'all?
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I'm doing my second favorite thing in the whole wide world.
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I'm going antique shopping,
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but don't worry it has to do with food.
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So y'all hop in and come with me.
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We're going to one of my favorite shops.
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- [Paula] I love antiquing.
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For me, it's like taking a trip down memory lane.
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I'm constantly looking for antique items for my home
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or either the restaurant.
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And I think it started maybe
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when my grandmother gave me her old spatula
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and you've probably seen me even cook with it on my show.
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And you know that's also
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how I find some of my cast-iron pots
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that I just can't live without.
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And you know, it's a real treat to find something rare
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when you're out there antiquing.
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Like this old fashioned ice cream maker.
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In today's time though,
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I make frozen treats at home
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with my electric ice cream maker,
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because it saves me a whole lot of time.
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But I have to tell you
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it's hard to pass up this little beauty,
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even if I'm going to use it just to decorate my kitchen.
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I remember my mama having
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these beautiful little dessert cups
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and these pretty little spoons
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that she served her ice cream with.
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And lucky for me,
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I found some at the antique shop today,
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but when you're gonna use them,
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you'll wanna make sure
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that you clean them up real, real good.
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And if you're buying fragile antiques like glass,
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you wanna make sure that they're not chipped or cracked.
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Well, I don't know about y'all,
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but I think I'm ready to start churning.
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- I couldn't believe today
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when I walked into Albercon Antiques
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that Terry had this old ice cream churn.
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It just took me right back to my childhood.
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This is what we actually used to make our ice cream
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when I was, gosh, a youngster 10 or 12 years old.
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This kind of machine though,
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just gives you like pop-out arms
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because this is how we would churn it.
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But I'm gonna show y'all later on
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how we can have our ice cream
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without having to do all that churning.
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Cause we gon' use electricity.
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Well, the first thing I wanna make for y'all
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is just a Waldorf salad,
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but I renamed it Golda's frozen Waldorf salad.
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It's very nutritious, pretty, and colorful.
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And it's very simple to put together.
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We're gonna start with some lemon juice
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and some pineapple juice
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and some sugar and just a pinch of salt.
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Now we're gonna let this cook for about five minutes
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until it just gets thick.
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And then we're gonna put this aside
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and let it cool for a few minutes.
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And I already have some ready for us right here.
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That's cooled off and you can see it's got nice and thick.
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Now all we're gonna do to this
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is add some fresh whipped cream.
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And I wanna tell y'all who Golda is.
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She was actually my uncle George's mother.
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From the time I remember as a child,
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she was totally bedridden.
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She was an invalid from arthritis.
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And I used to love to go over there
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and sit on the foot of Golda's bed
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and she would tell me all kinds of stories.
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But Aunt Peggy used to tell me
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about this wonderful frozen salad that Golda would make.
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So my Aunt Peggy didn't have the recipe,
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but I just talked to my aunt Peggy
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and talked to my Aunt Peggy
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until I could formulate this and put it to use.
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All right now I have folded in the whipped cream
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into our syrup.
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Now I'm just gonna toss in apples
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because apples are the main ingredient
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and some dice celery and some miniature marshmallows.
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The kids love those.
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Some split grapes.
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And I do recommend you using a seedless grape,
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and some crushed pineapple,
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and these are walnuts and you can use your favorite nut.
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You could actually use a macadamia nut, I love those.
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So we're just gonna fold that altogether.
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Look how pretty that looks all of your different colors.
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I just love when you bite into it
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and all the fruits are frozen.
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It's just really, really good.
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All right, now all I'm gonna do is put it into my container.
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Looks like heavenly hash almost.
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All right, now I'm just gonna cover this
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with some plastic wrap
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and pop this into the freezer
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and we're gonna let it sit
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until it's completely frozen all the way through.
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Okay, and that's ready to go.
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And now we're gonna move on
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to the thing that's got me swallowing hard and real excited,
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and that's a lemon pineapple sherbet.
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Now I'm starting with a 14 ounce can
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of sweetened condensed milk.
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I'm adding two cups of sugar
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and a 20 ounce can of crushed pineapple.
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And we're just gonna fold that pineapple
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into our condensed milk.
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All right, now I'm gonna add a cup of lemon juice.
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And now I'm gonna add two quarts of milk.
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This is going to be delicious, okay.
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So we've got everything mixed up.
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Now I'm gonna show you how to load your churn
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into your ice cream maker.
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I showed y'all the hand cranked one earlier.
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Thank goodness for Benjamin Franklin and electricity.
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Now I've taken out my churn
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and I'm gonna put my ice cream into this.
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Your ice cream as it hardens,
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it's actually gonna expand.
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All right, so we're gonna put that
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into our ice cream bucket.
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And then we're gonna put our top on it.
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We're fixing to start layering our ice
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along with our ice cream salt.
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Ad you can't use regular salt for this,
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you have to use ice cream salt.
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Now I'm gonna take some ice
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and I'm gonna spread it around.
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And we're actually gonna use three parts ice
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to one part salt.
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So it takes a good bit.
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And then I'm gonna come in here.
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Just put a layer of salt,
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completely on top of that layer of ice.
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All right, and we're gonna keep doing that
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until we've got it filled with our ice and our salt.
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All right, now, we've got this filled up with our ice
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and the last thing going on
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will be another nice layer of salt.
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Now we've got our ice and our salt packed in there good.
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Now all we're gonna do is place our motor.
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Now, when I make my ice cream,
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when I churn homemade ice cream,
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I let it churn in the sink because as my ice melts,
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you wanna pour your water off.
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(ice cream maker buzzing)
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It's gonna need to churn for probably about 30 minutes
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and when your ice cream or your sherbet is almost ready,
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you actually hear your motor begin to delay.
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And if it does that go directly and unplug it,
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cause you don't want your motor to burn up on you.
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- [Paula] Next, I'm gonna be finishing up
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that licious lemon and pineapple sherbet
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and serving up frozen Waldorf salad.
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So y'all stick around.
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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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Now, before I finish up with the sherbet,
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I wanna show you all these little ice cream cake pops.
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I did them early because I had a feeling
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I wasn't gon' have time for 'em.
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So I started these by making just a regular box cake mix
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in this special little baking tray.
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And then once they were done and cool,
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I just put the Popsicle sticks through the bottom of it.
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And then I frosted them with ice cream.
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And once they were frosted, I rolled them in nuts,
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and then I throw them back in the freezer to firm up.
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You're gonna love this really quick and easy recipe
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and the kids are gonna have a fit over 'em.
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- All right, I wanna show you
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how my dear sweet, beautiful mother,
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packed our ice cream to ripen when I was a little girl.
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Oh, you see that hole right there
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where that water's coming out.
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That is why I like to make my ice cream in the sink.
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All right, now we're gonna take our motor off,
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gonna just slip it off.
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Get a paper towel.
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And make sure I get all that salt away from there
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'cause I don't want that falling in our sherbet.
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I told you how it was gonna expand and look at there.
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Oh, it looks so delicious.
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I can't hardly wait.
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Now the first thing we wanna do is remove our dasher.
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And my mother would always take out the dasher
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and put it in a bowl
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and my little brother, Bubba and I'd fight over it
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because we just loved licking those dashers.
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All right, so we're gonna get our ice cream back in there
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and we're gonna put back on our top.
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And you can see that the Dasher
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is what filled up our hole.
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So now we're gonna have to go to a little piece
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that they include in your ice cream maker.
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When I was a girl, it was actually a cork.
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And I see now it's some type of rubber plug,
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so we're gonna push that down in there.
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All right, now we're gonna pack it down,
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again with more ice,
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(ice crackling)
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and more salt.
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We wanna bring it almost all the way back up to the top.
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And we're gonna cover it with that other layer of rock salt.
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(salt crackling)
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Maybe one more scoop.
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And now I wanna share with y'all
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how my mama protected and covered our ice cream.
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She always covered it with old newspapers
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you mash that down in there.
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And then she would cover it with towels.
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And now we're gonna just shove this aside
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for about an hour and let it ripen.
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So while I'm waiting on that to ripen,
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I think I wanna slip over here
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and check on our Waldorf salad
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and see how that's doing and maybe it's ready for a taste.
12:28
It feels frozen,
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it looks frozen.
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I'm just gonna cut me a little plug outta here.
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It might be a good idea to take this out,
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maybe let it sit on the counter for five or 10 minutes.
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It might be easier for you to work with.
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I don't I think I'm gonna just stab him.
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There he comes.
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He's coming out.
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Can you see all the colors.
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The apple and the grapes and the celery.
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Hmm, it's delicious.
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Aunt Golda, we still miss you after all these years.
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Hmm, it's yummy.
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I'm gonna take a quick break, clean up a little bit,
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and when you come back,
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we're gonna taste ice cream.
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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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Ooh, look at this pretty orange.
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And what we're fixing to do
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with these wonderful little oranges
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is we're gonna make orange ice cream cups.
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You can use different kinds of oranges for your cups.
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I love this blood orange, they're tasty and delicious,
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but for this one I'm gonna use
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just a nice fat juicy Naval orange.
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And we're gonna start by going in around the pith.
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I'm gonna just cut this across
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and we're gonna scoop out this wonderful, juicy orange.
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We don't have to remove all the pulp,
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but I do wanna try to get all of the juice out,
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so the juice won't dilute our ice cream.
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Now the feelings is very, very simple.
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We're gonna use vanilla ice cream
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and I'm gonna use an orange sherbet.
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Now I'm using, like I said,
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just a good premium vanilla ice cream.
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This is a perfect summer dessert.
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The fun part of this is you can do any flavor that you want.
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Although the orange sherbet
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and the vanilla ice cream is wonderful.
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It gives you a flavor of that old dream sickle
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that we used to eat when we were children.
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All right now to this,
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I'm gonna add the pulp that I removed from the oranges,
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which is gonna give it a little texture in there.
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And I've already pre-measured my orange lacquer.
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So I wouldn't be tempted to put too much.
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I love that stuff.
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It's just wonderful for desserts.
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The liquids that we've added has made it really juicy.
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And now we're just gonna throw this back into the freezer
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and let it set up because you can't feel those cups
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if your ice cream is too liquidy.
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(dish clanking)
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And I've got some right here, this from back up.
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We're just gonna turn these over and feel these up.
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If you're willing to serve
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this yummy frozen dessert to the children,
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you'd need to leave out your orange lacquer.
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Slip these back into the freezer and let them set up again.
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And let them get all the way hard.
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Oh, they're gonna be just delicious.
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All right, now what I've been waiting for,
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it's time to taste the sherbet.
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Well if not taste it at least just look at it
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and let's see if it's ripened and firmed up.
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Okay, here we go.
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Oh, oh my gracious, this looks so good.
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Oh, the dogs know I've got the ice cream ready.
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Listen to them.
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It's like they have a sixth sense.
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Oh, wow kabow.
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All right, I'm just gonna put just a little zest on this.
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What I really wanna put on this is my lips.
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Oh, doesn't that look yummy.
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And do you just absolutely love
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this depression glass ice cream cup and saucer
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and spoon that I bought.
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Hmm, this is magnificent.
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If you don't have an ice cream churn get you one.
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It's worth the time.
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The flavor is so good and so homemade.
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Hmm, I wish you were here to taste it with me
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and speaking of tasting,
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I wanna check on our oranges
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and see if one of those are ready for us to sample.
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Hopefully they are.
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Oh, I think so.
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I think they're ready.
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Look how pretty that is.
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I think I'll put a little zest on it.
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Wonderful dessert.
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This just perfect to the end of a heavy meal.
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And the orange shells just make a beautiful container.
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It looks like you've been to a whole bunch of trouble.
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Hmm, this is just out of this world delicious.
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And y'all, don't go anywhere
18:46
because when we come back,
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I'm gonna show you
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how to make those frozen Waldorf salads very kid friendly.
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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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I'd like to share with y'all a few things
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that are a big here with my family and me on ice cream day.
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If I'm gonna work in some fruit,
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all I do is buy a bag of either a strawberries,
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blueberries, or peaches,
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and puree them in the blender
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and make a wonderful refreshing Cooley.
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Michael loves it when I make ice cream
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and the bowls to serve it in.
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And this is very easy to do.
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You just take an ordinary bowl, spray it,
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cover it with a plastic wrap, and then melt your chocolate.
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And you can use a semi-sweet,
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you can use unsweetened,
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or you can use a white chocolate.
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Melt it, brush it on to your bowl,
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and pop it into the freezer.
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And then they'll slip right off
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and give you this wonderful bowl.
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Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
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It's truly got to be one of America's favorites.
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The family's just gonna love you
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for getting in the kitchen
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and making them some of these frozen treats.
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And you saw me earlier today making Golda's,
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frozen Waldorf salad in this square pan.
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Well, if you wanna make your children
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a great, healthy little snack,
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all you have to do is put them in paper, lined muffin tins.
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When they come in from school,
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they can grab one out of the freezer.
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They don't need a dish
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and it's just going to be simply amazing.
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So until next time America,
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I send you love and the best dishes
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from my kitchen to yours.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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