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- I'm starting to cry.
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This is the 11th day of Christmas cookies, isn't it Theresa?
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- 11, which means just one more.
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And the next cookie I'm making.
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I love, love, love gingerbread men.
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And there was a lady that, I think it was in North Carolina,
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she made the most incredible gingerbread, boys and girls.
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I didn't, I didn't get the recipe.
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I don't know that she would even share it
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'cause I think she may sell 'em.
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But I've tried to reproduce it, but I couldn't do it.
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All right, so let's start with ginger snaps, y'all.
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I am using a solid shortening,
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and you can buy them, you know, in sticks, which I love
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'cause I never like digging
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in the solid shortening bucket
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and trying to measure it out.
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and it's marked so it's easy to count.
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All right, so we're just gonna beat this up real good.
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Now I have beat that for three to four minutes
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and you know, remember to scrape the sides of your bowl.
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And now I'm going to beat in my one egg
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And then I'm gonna stop
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and I'm gonna add our molasses,
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which looks like motor oil, doesn't it?
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All right, those are molasses.
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All right, now we've got our sparkling sugar.
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And when I'm ready to put these on the baking sheet,
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I'm gonna roll 'em all in that sparkling sugar.
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And here we've got flour.
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I don't want to get mixed up on these.
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We've got two and a third cup of all purpose flour.
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I've got one tablespoon of ground ginger.
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I've got two teaspoons of baking soda,
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and I've got two teaspoons of cinnamon.
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because one of these is going into the sparkling sugar,
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and the other teaspoon is going into our flour.
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And now I've got my salt.
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And last but not least,
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So these, these cookies
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have a wonderful, distinct flavor.
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I wish I could pin down that recipe
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for gingerbread people.
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Have a feeling this makes about 30,
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30 cookies, if I remember correctly.
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So I'm going to just add my dry to my wet.
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And I'm going to kind of do it a little bit at a time.
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This is gonna be real thick.
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And you know, I always spray.
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And then I've got cinnamon and my sparkling sugar.
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And that cinnamon's gonna give it
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a little different color, you know?
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they're going to crinkle, you know what I mean?
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When they bake and start spreading.
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All right, here's what they look like
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after they've had the sanding sugar rolled on them.
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- [Camera Operator] Like Munchkins.
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- [Camera Operator] Like Dunkin' Donuts.
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It looks like donut holes, doesn't it?
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And it said we would get 30.
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So my scooper was a little bit bigger.
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And I can't hardly wait to taste these.
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It's probably been a year,
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a full year since I made gingerbread.
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375 for about 13 minutes.
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Yes'm you gotta help me taste.
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Y'all may think I got a bunch of cousins.
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We have a very small family,
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but I've got another cousin here
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that's here for a while.
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And so I'm gonna ask him.
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You got your teeth in?
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I have been aggravating this man for.
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- No, it's been longer than that now.
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How many years older than I been?
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- You're a little more than two years old.
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- That's what I thought.
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That's what I thought. - Yeah, yeah.
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But we've had so much fun too.
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- Yes we have. - Yeah.
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- And you have taken the kidding like a man, honey.
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You've taken my domain.
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- Well you need to when you.
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- [Paula] But you can dish it back too.
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- Well I'm pretty good at it, but not as good as you.
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I gotta say ginger snaps
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remind me of my childhood.
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- Because Grandma used to make them,
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and it was a special cookie always around the holidays.
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- Now, which grandmother?
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- Okay, I was gonna say
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I never a remember Grandma Harris make a gingersnap.
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And it was not a favorite cookie of mine,
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although it was a special cookie around all holidays.
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This is a special ginger snap.
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- Good, thank you cousin.
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Thank you for taking my joking, pulling me.
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- I love you too Don.
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And I love y'all out there.
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And what was this cookie number 11?
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- [Theresa] Yes ma'am.
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- I'm going to cry when I get to the 12th one,
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'cause it's gonna be over.
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I think of all the recipes that I've shared, Don.
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- These are the most rewarding
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because I get to taste some wonderful cookies.
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- But I'm saying love and best dishes
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to all y'all out there.
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We got one more to go.
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And I hadn't tasted a bomb yet.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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