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Paula's Best Dishes: 3 Vintage Southern Recipes - On this classic episode of Paula's Best Dishes, Paula makes 3 old-fashioned recipes, including Grapefruit Cake, Fried Crab, and a Southern Biscuits & Gravy recipe.
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0:32 Grapefruit Cake Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/grapefruit-cake-with-grapefruit-cream-cheese-frosting/
8:43 Lip Smackin' Biscuits & Gravy Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/biscuits-with-milk-gravy/
18:16 Deep-Fried Crab Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/deep-fried-crabs/
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[Music]
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today we're making old things new again
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and reviving long lost recipes
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first i'm recreating a recipe from one
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of hollywood's most
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legendary restaurants delicious
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grapefruit cake
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becky then i'm helping a home viewer
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recreate
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a long lost family recipe
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lip smacking biscuits and milk gravy
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thank you and finally i'm making a
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recipe
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from my childhood fried crab
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we're going to be kicking things off
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y'all with a delicious grapefruit cake
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that was inspired by hollywood's famous
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brown derby restaurant
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and you know what it's relatively easy
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to make
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we're going to sift together
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three-fourths a cup of sugar
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one and a half cups of cake flour
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along with one and a half teaspoons of
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baking powder
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and a half a teaspoon of salt now i've
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already got
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all those ingredients sifted in the bowl
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for you because you don't want to watch
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me sifting do you
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the brown derby was actually
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opened the year that my mother was born
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1926 and they closed in 1985
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and as long as they were in business
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they would not release or share any of
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their recipes
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so i'm looking so forward to this one
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all right
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now we've got our things sifted we're
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just gonna make a little well
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because we're gonna add our wet
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ingredients now a fourth
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of a cup of water a fourth a cup
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of vegetable oil about a half a teaspoon
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of grapefruit zest you know i love
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grapefruit i think better than i do
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oranges oh i just love them and these
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bring back
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so many good memories for me my
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grandmother and grandfather hires lived
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in winter haven florida
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and they had great fruit trees and
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orange trees
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all over their yard and my little
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grandmother
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i can see grandma hires right now
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teetering
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out in the yard in her high heels i
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never saw her
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in any shoe other than a high heel i
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never saw her in
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any clothes other than a dress and she
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would teeter out
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there four foot ten inches tall
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she would reach up into that grapefruit
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tree in the morning
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pull down those wonderful grapefruits
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and come back in the house and uh
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squeezed me some fresh grapefruit juice
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for breakfast
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and there was just nothing better
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so just the smell of grapefruit brings
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back wonderful memories to me
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so we're gonna need about three
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tablespoons of grapefruit juice
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so i'm gonna just juice that over my
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little strainer to catch our seeds and
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that looks like it should render about
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three tablespoons
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let's see what we got here all right
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look it's the color of my shirt
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because i'm using a pink grapefruit
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well look i had a little bit more than
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three tablespoons
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so i'm just finished drinking that off
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so good all right now i'm gonna add
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three
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egg yolks
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i have beaten the three egg whites that
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came off those yolks along with a
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quarter of a teaspoon of crema tarta
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to make them nice and stiff
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we just take our mixer and we're just
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gonna mix those ingredients
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we've got our cake almost together
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easy easy cake you know and it's not a
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big cake
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is it it's not like a lot of the cakes
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we make here in the south where they can
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be
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anywhere from four to eight to 12 layers
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so there we go i'm gonna turn it up just
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a little bit
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making sure i mix those ingredients
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together real good
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there we go all right we're gonna come
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over here and we're to take our egg
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whites
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and we are going to fold those in to our
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batter
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and you'll want to remember you know
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anything involving
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egg white you might want to save a
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pretty day
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because rainy weather can really
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mess up meringues
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[Music]
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so we've got this all blended together
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now i'm gonna cook this cake in just one
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layer
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and i have lined the bottom of my pan
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with wax paper
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and i've sprayed it so that our cake
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will come out nice and even for us
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i've preheated our oven to 350 degrees
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and we're gonna bake this cake layer off
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about 25 minutes
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so we just want to even that out
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and i can see a lot of bubbles in this
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batter so i'm just going to drop it
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see look at all the bubbles see them
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bursting
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so just a few drops on the counter
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will cause those bubbles to rise and pop
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so we won't have those bubbles in the
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middle of our cake
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after it's baked so in the oven it goes
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for about 25 minutes up next
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we're gonna be making biscuits and milk
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gravy
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just the way becky's grandma used to
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make them and
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later it's fried crabs y'all just like
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my grandma paul used to make do you ever
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get
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too old to miss your grandparents
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i so hope y'all are enjoying the show
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and
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if you do be sure to click like
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and we'll be right back after the break
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hey y'all welcome back i've got our cake
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baked and i just cut that layer into
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with a serrated knife
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all we're gonna do is take some fresh
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grapefruit sections
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put this on top of the filling
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that we've put on our first layer of
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cake
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now we're going to take our top layer
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and we're just going to put it
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on top of the grapefruit and the icing
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our icing is real simple to make it's
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just one
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12 ounce container of soft cream cheese
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3 4 cup of powdered sugar 2 teaspoons of
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fresh grapefruit juice
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one teaspoon grapefruit zest and
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six drops of a yellow food coloring
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and we're just gonna frost this cake
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tops and sides i'm gonna be making this
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for my fat boy
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so i'm just gonna
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put a few pieces of grapefruit
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section just like this it's beautiful
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isn't it
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i'm gonna taste that in a few minutes
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but i want to share with y'all
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an email that i got from a viewer it was
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so sweet i get a lot of mail and
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this email came from a young woman named
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becky
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her grandmother lived in northeast
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florida for over 40 years
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she said every sunday we'd wake up to
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the smell of her making
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her special breakfast homemade biscuits
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and milk
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gravy it was
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heaven she says and i can't tell you
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what i wouldn't give
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for just one more sunday with my bamba
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we're gonna see if we can help her with
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some biscuits
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hey becky you're going to make me cry
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listen if you read that you know you
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made me want to cry listen it's so sweet
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so often we lose those recipes
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so i'm gonna see if i can't help you
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thank you very much
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well thank you honey so let's start by
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making the biscuit
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okay now we have some flour a little
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sugar
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baking powder baking soda and buttermilk
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okay and of course
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the thing that makes it so good and
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that's the shortening
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so let's measure out three cups of
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all-purpose
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flour into our bowl i warned you i'm not
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a good cook sorry
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listen i bet you're a better cook than
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you think you're not and my husband is
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the cook in our family i'm very
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lucky now we are gonna add two
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tablespoons of sugar okay
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now we need two and a half teaspoons
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of baking powder now because we're using
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buttermilk
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we're gonna add some soda to our
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biscuits
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a half a teaspoon of baking soda all
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right
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now the last thing we're gonna add is
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about a half teaspoon
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of salt okay so if you'll take your fork
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now just fluff
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all your ingredients together all right
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[Music]
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we've got a half a cup of solid
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shortening here put that into your
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that doesn't look healthy there we go
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when you're eating a biscuit you don't
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care do you
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anybody really care no
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does this look like i'm doing it
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correctly it looks like you're doing it
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correctly
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and maybe by tomorrow we'll have it cut
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in and there you go
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i can't do it
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so you just keep cutting girl all right
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and i'll start pouring in your
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buttermilk for you
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and you can just work that buttermilk
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into your dry ingredients
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there you go and you can see
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that your dough is really really wet now
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if you want to wash your hands off
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just help yourself we're going to move
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our bowl on over here
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knead this dough just a few times
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okay we don't want to overwork it though
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because that'll make our biscuits tough
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am i doing it correctly yes you're doing
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it correctly
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all right that looks great
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so we wound up using a cup of buttermilk
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all right so i'm just gonna put that
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down just like that
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now we're gonna take our rolling pin
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we're gonna
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dust it with flour and then we're just
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gonna
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gently roll out our biscuit dough okay
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may i do that yes you may okay
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there you go i would stop right there
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if i were you because i like thicker
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biscuits detail
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all right now here's your flour and here
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are your biscuit cutters
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so just dip your biscuit cutter down in
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there okay
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and press it down into your dough
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these are great looking biscuits girl
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so i'll spray the pan for you
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and you just lay those biscuits out the
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way you like them
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so now i'm just going to push down the
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middle of these because
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the last thing that we're going to do
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butter
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you got it hit it girl i don't think you
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need
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any directions on that do you no
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i like a lot of butter is that okay that
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no that's not it
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of course it's okay girl all right
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our biscuits are ready to go in the oven
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and hopefully these are gonna live up to
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becky's memory of her bomba's
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biscuits so we're gonna bake these now
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put those in the oven
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450 and we'll probably bake them for
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about 14 minutes
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coming up i'm making a milk gravy
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[Music]
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it's delicious makes me want to cry
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dusty
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it does and later
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fried crabs y'all just like my grandma
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paul used to make
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ladies crab on your guests and they will
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love them
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i hope y'all are enjoying the show and i
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want to hear from
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you tell me what recipes or videos you'd
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like to see me make
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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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hey y'all i'm in here in the kitchen
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today with this
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cute young woman named becky becky
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emailed me that she was having trouble
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with one of her grandma's recipes so
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today's show
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is all about lost recipes
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so i want you and i to be the first one
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to taste this grapefruit cake that was
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inspired by hollywood's famous brown
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derby restaurant
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it's delicious
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this is delicious i ate half the cake in
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one bite
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look at that big old bite becky
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you know we got to make gravy
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[Laughter]
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your grandma made a milk gravy she did
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and she didn't use sausage so a lot of
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times they have been in restaurants that
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have sausage
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that's right oh let me show you
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something okay if you don't mind
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before you get started i brought this
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give me an opportunity to
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eat more cake there you go this is my
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grandmother this is
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bombay her name was cleo motsley bandy
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and that's my favorite picture for her i
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think she was 16 at the time
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in kentucky she was gorgeous just
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pressure well let's just prop
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that right there so she can watch us
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make her milk gravy
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and watch us make this milk gravy so
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this is the bacon grease
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this is the bacon grease now we're gonna
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put a fourth of a cup
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so that's quite a bit of bacon grease a
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co-citius chow
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now we're gonna add a fourth of a cup of
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flour
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smell that bacon yes that's the smell
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that makes it so good to me now because
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this is a white gravy
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all right we're not gonna worry about
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browning it
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all if i'm gonna eat a white gravy i
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want it to kind of be white
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all right open that milk honey and pour
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some milk in
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it's about a cup and a half there we go
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i'm gonna change over to our
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whisk all right you want to whisk those
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lumps out
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and you want to work with it pretty
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quickly as you eat your cake
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as i eat my cake
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all right so a little bit more milk i
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think a little bit more milk not too too
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much but
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a little bit more okay all right that
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smells good i like for my gravy to come
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to a good rolling ball
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you know so that the flour taste will
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cook out
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so this will get thicker and thicker you
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know as it cooks
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does that look like the color you
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remember it does
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all right now see the way that's just
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cooking it's really boiling
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i'm gonna turn that down a little bit
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becky okay
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all right now let's add our salt and
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[Music]
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pepper
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that's delicious makes me want to cry
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dusty
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it does you know the secret becky
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is that bacon grease
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[Music]
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oh i would have never thought about
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doing that
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never ever let the butter get too far
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away from you
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butter and bacon grease
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[Music]
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i mean it's good girl all right let's
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see if our biscuits are ready
16:54
oh becky they look so good
16:57
we did good girl we have done so
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good i'm just gonna split that biscuit
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i can't wait to try this
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[Music]
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is it
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i'm not gonna cry on tv and i'm not
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gonna cry either
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oh it's perfect
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becky i hope that you go home and get in
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the kitchen on the weekends
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and make these biscuits and gravy
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and think of all the times that you
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spent
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feeling safe and secure with your bamba
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absolutely
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you've got wonderful memories absolutely
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nobody can
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ever take away from absolutely as long
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as you're breathing
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y'all don't go anywhere today is all
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about long-lost recipes
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up next fried crabs to remember
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i so hope y'all are enjoying the show
18:03
and
18:04
if you do be sure to click like
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subscribe and the notification bell so
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you'll
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back after the
18:14
break
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well i'm gonna finish up today making
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deep fried crabs it was just something
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that my grandmother paul used to cook
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no matter where i've traveled i've never
18:28
seen this done before
18:29
now she used cornmeal for all her frying
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because she loved cornmeal i've got a
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nice
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fine white cornmeal that i'm gonna use
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and i'm gonna add a little salt to that
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and grandma
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loved heat she was really into her black
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pepper
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now i'm just gonna take our crabs so
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we're gonna just par boil these for 10
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minutes
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with a little work getting that off i'm
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taking off the apron
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i've backed our crabs and i'm using blue
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crabs that we catch right out here
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in our backyard just gonna pull the
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center stuff out and you can see how the
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crab
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has an intention right in the center
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right down the middle
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so we're just going to snap those
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all right i'm going to remove that
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little leg right there and then grandma
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would take the crab run it through the
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meal
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just like this and she would deep fry
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them
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and they were so good
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if you're starving it'll take you a
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while to get
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full but the flavor of these crabs are
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wonderful
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it's just kind of a different way i
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thought it was a very
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unique way that grandma chose to serve
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crabs like i said
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i've never seen anybody do this but my
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grandmother palm
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this brings back so many memories
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into the fryer basket
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uh-oh i lost a piece of his crab
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piece of his cloth so drop those in
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just that quickly we have
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got our crabs to go in
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listen to them popping popping popping
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oh
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grandmama you know do you ever get so
20:25
old too old to miss your grandparents
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i don't think so
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the smell is coming up and it's only
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going to take a couple of minutes
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because when we steam our ball crabs
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we're looking at anywhere from
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eight to 15 minutes so they cook very
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very quickly
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you just want your meal to turn a nice
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golden brown
20:50
you know if you're having a casual party
20:52
out in the backyard
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and you want a wonderful quick hors
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d'oeuvre
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ladies crab on your guests
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and they will love them it'll certainly
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keep them occupied
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i'm just going to transfer them to the
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paper towel for a
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second and then i'm going to just move
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them right on over
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to our crab plate
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how delicious do those look
21:21
only my grandmama
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