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- Every Christmas, y'all, my mother made eggnog.
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And everybody loved Corrie's eggnog.
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My mother's name was Corrie.
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And I remember, on Christmas Eve, friends coming in
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and them having that eggnog
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with some bourbon in it.
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Mama let me taste it one time.
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I liked it just plain.
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But it's a very, very good Christmas
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and New Year's Eve drink.
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all right, in a saucepan,
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I'm gonna add two cups of milk.
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And I'm not making the whole recipe
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because, as I said before,
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none of us need to be intoxicated in the middle of the day.
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- [Theresa] This has no alcohol in it.
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- Oh, we're not going pour bourbon in?
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- [Theresa] You don't have to. You can if you want.
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- But you can. - But this recipe doesn't...
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Mama and Daddy always dipped up the eggnog
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and then poured a little bourbon in it.
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never did, she never did cook her eggnog.
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And, you know, after she was gone,
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and I wanted to keep that eggnog going,
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Peppermint extract, y'all.
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I never could stand the thoughts
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of drinking raw eggs.
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I just couldn't (indistinct).
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the custard part, and it was incredible.
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I think it's better than my mother's.
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Which Daddy would've probably said, "No, it's not," but...
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- [Theresa] That's a loyal husband.
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- Yes, I remember right after Jimmy and I were married,
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my daddy was so sick,
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but Mommy and Daddy had ridden over to our little house.
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And I said, "Daddy, I made some sweet tea.
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Can I get you a glass?"
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And I said, "Daddy, is it good?
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It's as good as mama's, isn't it?"
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He said, "No, honey, it's not as good as your mama's.
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But it's pretty good."
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I'll never forget him saying that.
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All right, so we're gonna heat this.
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We don't want it to boil.
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We just gonna heat it till little bubbles
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start forming around the edge.
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And then we have our sugar and our eggs.
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And I'm gonna beat that together.
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And then we're going to temper them.
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And when I say temper,
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we're gonna slowly add the hot mixture to this
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because we don't want our eggs to become scrambled eggs.
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This is not eggnog and scrambled eggs.
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It's not that recipe.
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So I'm gonna transfer
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into this measuring cup.
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And I'm gonna add a little bit of salt.
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And I'm gonna add my sugar.
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And I'm gonna whip these together.
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And then like I said, we're gonna slowly add the hot
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Warm enough to start tempering my eggs.
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Oop. - [Theresa] Don't make a mess.
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I just like to be sure.
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I'd rather be safe than sorry.
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So I'm gonna add this back to our pot.
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Working that egg mixture into
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our milk, our sweetened milk.
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Now we're gonna cook this for about eight minutes,
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but we don't want it to boil.
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You know, we're gonna cook it.
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Said cook over medium heat,
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but you know, your medium and my medium
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may be two different things.
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when you have that instant fire,
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have to be a little careful.
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Okay, we're almost through with our eggnog.
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But I'm gonna need, I got these white chocolate chips,
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and I need to melt them.
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So I'm gonna do that at like ten-second intervals.
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Okay, so I got my white chocolate melted.
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So now I'm going to take my cups
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and rim them in my melted chocolate.
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And then I'm gonna dip it
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into my crushed peppermint.
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This is gonna be a very special drink
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for very special people.
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- [Theresa] Do you want me to stick them in the refrigerator
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- [Theresa] Okay, just...
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- Now I'm going to pour my eggnog
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Yeah, we might need to...
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Oh, that's so pretty, though.
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The way it's falling.
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Yeah, we could probably stand to...
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because we're adding our hot eggnog.
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So once we get these filled,
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we're gonna put them in the refrigerator
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and let them get nice and cold.
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I wish I could taste it, but I can't.
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It's got to go in the fridge.
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'Cause I'm coming in with it.
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Like I said, it's a very...
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You can put it in the refrigerator if you want to.
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I think that was a good idea you had.
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And you know what I think I would do?
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This next time, I think I'd put
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that whole thing in the refrigerator.
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You know what I'm seeing? - Mm-hm.
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- You know what I'm saying? - I sure do.
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- Before I sign off with y'all,
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I wanna just give you a couple of hints.
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Have plenty of crushed peppermint.
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Have plenty of white chocolate melted.
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And you need to put them on a cookie sheet
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and leave them upside down
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on that cookie sheet with all that white chocolate
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and peppermint on it.
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And this is what you'll have if you do that.
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- [Theresa] That is such a good Christmas drink.
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- Yes. - It screams Christmassy.
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You know what else it screams, Theresa?
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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