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Full Episode Fridays: Jams, Jellies & Preserves - 3 Recipes for Homemade Jam Jelly, and Preserves
Jul 6, 2018
Summer brings an explosion of fresh produce that can be enjoyed in all seasons with preserves.
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In this episode, Paula teaches us all about preserves and some things that can go with them. Today she will cook:
Pear Honey
https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/pear-honey/
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hey y'all I'm Paula Deen you know
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sometimes it's really hard to say
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goodbye to summer's fruits and veggies
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so what better way to enjoy them than by
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preserving them and I mean literally and
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today we're gonna do just that but
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before we get started let's run out to
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the garden to see a friend and has me
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fresh produce for us and then we'll head
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back to the kitchen where we're gonna
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really sweeten up things with a pear
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honey that's just heavenly and then
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we're gonna need something to dip into
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all that goodness and you know what my
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buttery biscuit sticks will do the trick
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but that's not all y'all next up I'm
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gonna be making a mouth-watering
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strawberry apricot preserve and then to
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finish things up it's a jelly that'll
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kick you my pepper jelly so come on
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y'all let's get started cause all day is
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jelly day today's show is all about
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canning making preserves and jellies and
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you know if you're gonna preserve these
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foods you might as well grow them too so
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I'm gonna take y'all to a favorite
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little secret spot of mine and it's a
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little bitty bit of a garden and I see
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my buddy brand and branch is out here
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working in the garden so let's go in and
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speak to him and see what all he's doing
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hey Brandon hey Paula how's it going
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it's going great I'm getting everything
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ready in the house I'm good on the
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picking some peppers we have a lot of
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jalapeno peppers coming along and bell
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peppers in there peak season right now
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I think they'll be perfect for you to
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make a nice pepper jelly today wonderful
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explain to me Brandon how you're able to
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the plant and harvest such a beautiful
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garden without using pesticides I like
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to use marigolds because the sin of the
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Maragos help keeps pests away
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also I've been to spring the plants with
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a mixture of water and liquid health so
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really yeah I don't like the sides well
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Brandon while you're finishing up your
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work out here I'm gonna take these in
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the house and going in start on this
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pepper jelly so in a while I want you to
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come up to the house and taste it okay
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and now I'm gonna give you some jars
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Satan sent home to mama
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oh mama love that I love them I'll see
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you a little while before look at all
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these beautiful peppers
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in how a piñas that we're going to be
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using you know I just love jelly and
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preserve Dave it just brings back the
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time said I was in the kitchen with my
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grandmother Paul and the first one I'm
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gonna show you all today is pear honey
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now you can see today's pears I'm
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cutting them just like a potato that you
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were making potato salad so we're gonna
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start by putting these in the pot and
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we're going to add a large can of
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crushed pineapple with its juice and I'm
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gonna add four nice pieces of ginger
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alright for those that have never made
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jellies and preserves this may shock you
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what you're fixing to see but it
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requires a lot of sugar to make jellies
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and jams this could send you into a coma
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just watching Paula do this but it
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really is required
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would you believe ten cups all right now
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we're gonna cut that on and we're just
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gonna stir that up and you can see I'm
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not adding any liquid to it at all
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because it's gonna the sugar in the
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fruit and the pineapple is gonna make
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its own syrup now when my Aunt Peggy
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makes pear preserves she doesn't use the
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ginger but she uses actual lemon rind
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but instead of putting the lemon rind in
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there I just used to give it a little
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bit of juice okay now I'm gonna move
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this over to this eye and let this cook
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down and you'll notice that I'm actually
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cooking mine with the lid off because I
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want them to thicken
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I've actually got a pot of pears down
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here that have already been cooking for
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about an hour but you can see the syrup
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is getting real thick and I can smell
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that ginger really going to work in
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there all right that sugar is finally
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starting to melt in our pears and our
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pineapple and y'all probably hurt a
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little jiggling going on while I'm
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getting all this together well it's
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actually our jars that we're gonna pour
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our preserves in and they've probably
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been sterilizing now for about ten
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minutes well the next thing I'm gonna do
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is add the Rings and the lids so I'm
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gonna slip them down in there and I
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actually even put my tongs down in there
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to sterilize them and in the meantime
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our preserves are just a bawling away
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and I let them cook on up to the last
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minute because you want to feel your hot
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jars with a hot liquid because you want
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to make sure that all your jars see
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ellonija and you've got that fruit good
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and safe all right now you want to be
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really really careful that you've got a
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good grip on them because you don't want
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them splashing back in that water and
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burning yourself for anybody that's
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around you while you're doing these all
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right so these have been nice and
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sterilized I can't tell you how
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important it is for your jars to be
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sterilized real good so now we're just
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gonna fill these jars with our pear
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honey now you want to leave about a half
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an inch to an inch on the top of your
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preserves and my grandmother taught me
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to wet a paper towel and then run it
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around the rim of your jars because you
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don't want anything interfering with
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that lid sealing on you all right and
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I'm gonna come over here and pull this
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out and they cool off rather quickly I'm
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just gonna make sure that's placed on
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there good and then I'm gonna take my
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ring I'm just gonna turn it until it's
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nice and tight and I'm gonna sit this
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over here so they can start cooling all
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right so on to our second jar look at
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that piece of ginger going into there if
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we've done them properly these should
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last a good full year the important
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thing is that your jars seal and the way
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you know that they're sealed is they're
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gonna pop then you'll know that you've
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done it properly and all's well
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I want to stop and go over here and give
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these pairs a quick twirl and make sure
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they're all right when they are you can
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see how this the sugar has melted and
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it's becoming real liquidy so before we
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know it they'll be balling when I'm
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making preserves I cook them until
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they're the way I like for them to look
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which would be anywhere from 30 minutes
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to an hour and that a beautiful color
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all right I've got all the preserves
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filled in the jars and I'm gonna bathe
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them in the same water that I sterilize
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the jars in and you'll want to be very
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careful because these jars are heavy
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once you fill them all right I've got
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the jars in there so I'm gonna let that
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water bath for about five to ten minutes
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now this particular jar right here it's
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going straight into the refrigerator and
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we gonna find ways to eat this up pretty
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quick in fact while I was standing here
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I thought of a way to start eating these
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up before they ruin on me
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I just love love love hot Siamese though
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I thought this would just be delicious
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on top of this ice cream don't that look
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wonderful I said won't burn my mouth and
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oh my gracious mmm
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I really don't think it matters whether
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I bake biscuits today or not but
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whatever that's coming up next
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[Music]
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[Music]
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our pair honey turned out so good and I
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can't wait to share this little recipe
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with y'all because it's so deliciously
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simple I'm gonna make some biscuit
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sticks so we're gonna start with some
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all-purpose flour and some baking powder
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and some salt and we're just gonna sift
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that into our bowl and we're gonna cut
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some butter into it or I could use like
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some type of shortening and I've got the
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butter in little cubes we're just gonna
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dump that all in there so we're just
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gonna cut that up and you can see the
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butter is chill so you can just cut up
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the pieces so now we're gonna make a
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well in our Bowl and we're just gonna
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pour our milk in there okay so we're
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just gonna work that flour into that
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milk and a lot of people especially
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Grandmama's do this with their hands oh
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and speaking of hands Michael groover is
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just gonna shoot me cuz one more time I
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have forgotten to take off my rings
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because I better do that I'm gonna get
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so in trouble frightens me to take them
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off cuz I'm so afraid I'm gonna lose
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them then I would be in trouble okay now
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we're just gonna put out a little flour
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all right so we're just gonna need our
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dough just a little bit not much
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let's see that made a real pretty dope
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alright so we're just gonna roll that
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out you want to make sure you got plenty
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of flour cuz you don't want the rolling
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pin to stick to your dough
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oh that looks real pretty right so now
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I'm gonna take my knife and I'm gonna
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cut these in strips cuz I wanted to be
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kind of pretty little sticks all right
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so we're gonna Pat these out just a
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little bit and we're gonna make these
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just like we would a normal biscuit but
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we're just gonna cut them a little
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different so that you can kind of just
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dip them in your preserves okay we've
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got our biscuit sticks ready and you can
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see they're just like a regular biscuit
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but we've just
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just up the shape of them a little bit
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so we're just gonna brush those with
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butter put them into a preheated 450
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degree oven maybe for 10 to 12 minutes
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you know can we've got some ready over
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here one pan and then moving around
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nicely cuz that pan was sprayed as well
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as being cooked on a nonstick pan so
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they look really good
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while those cool off a little bit let's
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move on over time preserves that we're
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making this is one of my very favorite
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recipes I have found that it's the
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simplest of all the preserves but
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normally I use FIGS well there are no
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figs this time of year so today I'm
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actually using apricots and we're gonna
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put those in the pan along with some
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sugar now the trick to these preserves
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is strawberry gelatin so we're just
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gonna let this cook and it doesn't take
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very long at all I've already got our
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jars sterilized and now I'm gonna drop
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in the Rings and I sterilize them for
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about two minutes and I want to tell you
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something else it's very very important
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these lids are only for one-time use as
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far as sealing them of course they're
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fine to store in the refrigerator but
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for preserves any kind of canning you
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always have to start with a newly that's
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very very important all right so I've
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moved this pot over here and can see how
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quickly those are becoming more of a
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liquid and I've got the boiling jars
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ready so when we come back we're gonna
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take these that are ready and Jarmo and
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we're gonna stick some biscuits in them
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[Music]
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[Music]
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okay this is ready and looking good so
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we're ready to jar this up and our jars
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are just a bubbling over here so I'm
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gonna turn that down a little bit and
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I'm gonna very carefully lift out the
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jars you want to be careful you don't
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want to burn yourself and they actually
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make a lot of equipment for canning day
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they actually have little jar removers
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alright I'm gonna take our Rings out
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when those jars are still a little hot
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it looks just like strawberry preserves
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only the fruit is apricot seal that up
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and you'll want to remember not screw
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your jars too tight because they're
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gonna be expanding and shrinking and all
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of that so you don't want to really bear
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down on that ring until after they've
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cooled and then you can go back and
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tighten them all up and remember to
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leave about a half an inch head in your
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jar a few minutes ago I was making pear
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honey and I cooked it a little longer
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than I would a normal preserve because I
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wanted it to take on the color of honey
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but you can also cook it a little less
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and have it more the color of the pear
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right now we're going to process those
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for a few minutes and in the meantime
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we're going to move over here and make
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one of my favorite jellies that my
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grandmother used to make she used to
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keep pepper jelly around and it's real
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real simple to make so we're gonna take
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our bell pepper and I have a Pina pepper
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because our pepper jelly is actually
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going to have a bite to it I also like
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making this with a red bell pepper the
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red and green together is so pretty so
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I'm gonna process this
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just just a little bit because I want
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you to be able to crunch on that pepper
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when you're eating your jelly ooh and my
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gracious it smells good so we're just
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gonna put these in our pot like I said
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these make great gifts I remember
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grandma giving everybody she knew a jar
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pepper jelly but you can fix up a cute
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little basket and put the cream cheese
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in it and some nice crackers and have a
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complete little gift basket so to this
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we're going to add the sugar an apple
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cider vinegar and we're going to add
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some certo and this is going to act as a
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thickening agent for us certo is a
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liquid fruit pectin in fact because
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we're using this for some reason it
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works as magic that's not gonna require
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a water bath all right
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see how pretty that is the greens coming
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alive but it's not quite as green as I
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would like it so I'm gonna fix that by
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in just a few drops of green food
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coloring okay so all we have to do with
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this is just dissolve it and it's ready
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to put in our jars that we have
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processed so we're just gonna bring that
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to a bowl and then we're gonna cut it
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off and load our jars I swear I hear one
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of those biscuit sticks back there
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saying yes I knew I heard it alright so
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I'm gonna come over here since we got
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some strawberry jam left and just see
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how it is on that biscuit
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that's delicious
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you know I think our our jars have
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probably processed long enough I'm gonna
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very gently take these out and sit him
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right up there mm-hmm
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look did you hear that ping that was
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that was very quick fit to seal that
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quick you see they don't seal that
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quickly all right and I'm just gonna let
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them sit there and cool look how pretty
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those do look all right this looks ready
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now so we're gonna seal these up now I
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have sterilized these jars so oh this
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pepper jelly looks delicious look at
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those colors I'm gonna clean that room
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real good when I serve this I normally
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just get a 8 ounce block of cream cheese
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and put it on a little platter and then
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just pour the pepper jelly all on top of
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it so I've got some spreadable cream
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cheese right here so I'm just gonna make
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sure this is good as granny's not even
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gonna wait foot to cool done that look
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yummy and of course once it's cooled
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it'll be a little thicker than that this
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is great for st. Patrick's Day when you
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wanting to have everything green that
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you did y'all hear that ping I heard
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another one seal that's a very very good
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sound when you're canning mmm tastes
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just like Grandma palms when we come
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back labeling and decorating they're
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gonna make great gifts
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[Music]
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[Music]
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when you're giving your beautiful
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homemade preserves as gifts you want to
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jazz them up just a little bit and I
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love using a fabric that coordinates
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with whatever the preserve is just
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remove your ring and put your fabric on
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your jar so it's got a little dress on
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and see how pretty that is
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and I also found the gold liquid pin
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laying around the house and it looks
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real pretty to just write directly on
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the jar and it's very important that I
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put the date on these so that the people
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that I give these to will know how long
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they can keep it on their shelves and
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people are just gonna love the gift that
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you gave them because you know what it's
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a little piece of yourself I hope that
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our time together has helped child to
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realize not only is this yummy to the
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tummy it's easy and it's almost
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therapeutic and I think you're gonna
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just love this pepper jelly if you've
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never had it before by all means try it
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and you can use the green peppers you
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can use the yellow or you can use the
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red and all we gonna do I've got just a
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plain block of cream cheese and this is
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my favorite way to eat pepper jelly so I
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hope this show is inspired y'all to get
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into your kitchen with your family or
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your dog and take advantage of some of
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the things that are around you this time
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of year and available so you know as
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usual Gertie and I wish y'all best
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dishes from our kitchen to yours good
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girl
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Oh
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you
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