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- I'm fixing to share a recipe with y'all
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for a cookie that I made years
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and years and years ago.
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And I loved them then.
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I can't exactly remember what I did with them.
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It was on one of my shows,
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best dishes or home cooking, I can't remember.
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So I'm gonna make those same kind of cookie,
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I'm gonna address them differently
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from what I did a hundred years ago.
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So these are called chocolate dipped brandy sticks.
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And in the recipe, it tells you
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to bake no more than six at the time.
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Well, if memory serves me right,
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I didn't wanna bake, but like three at the time,
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because we're gonna be rolling these up
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and they're gonna be thin.
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And if we don't get 'em while they're still warm,
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ain't no way we're gonna get 'em rolled.
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So I don't decide about that as we come along.
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- [Cameraperson] Why are we making these, Paula?
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- Oh, y'all, guess what?
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This is a ninth day of Christmas cookies.
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I forgot to tell y'all that.
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I think in an earlier film, I was doing some cookies,
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and I said 10 days of Christmas.
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It's 12 days of Christmas cookies,
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and this is number nine.
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All right, I've got my butter, I've got my heat on low,
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I've got my sugar, I have got my dark corn syrup,
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I've got my cinnamon, and I've got my ginger.
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Now if Michael was here, he'd say,
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"Well, I always like Maryanne better." (laughs)
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I mean, I can bank on him saying
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that every time I mention the spice ginger.
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All right, so in goes our cinnamon
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and in goes Miss Ginger. (chuckles)
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All right, so we're just gonna stir this
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until it's melted over low heat.
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And then I have a cup of all-purpose flour over here
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and I've got a little brandy
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that we're going to add to it.
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And when this is nice and everything's melted,
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we'll add that flour and our brandy to it.
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It appears to be everything nice and melted.
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I'm just trying to work the butter and our melted butter
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into the rest of our ingredients.
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I'm gonna go ahead and add our two teaspoons of brandy.
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Whoa, I'm going over on that one.
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(metal utensil rattles)
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And I've got my cup of all purpose flour
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and take that off the heat, and we're going to stir it in.
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And I'm using, I love this parchment paper
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'cause you can reuse it.
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And I had baked some cookies on it earlier,
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so we gonna get the goodie out of that.
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Now we're gonna bake these for about 10 to 14 minutes
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until they're kind of a caramel color,
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when they're already almost a caramel color right now.
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All right, so we're gonna drop these
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by a heaping teaspoon.
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And you know what I'm gonna do?
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I'm gonna go for six and hope it works. (laughs)
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All right, that first one was a little shy,
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so I'm gonna go back in.
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Oops, I forgot to cut my fire off.
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All right, so in the oven this goes
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about 14 minutes, and we're gonna take 'em out.
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And you see this spoon right here?
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This spoon is very important
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because we're gonna take them off of our cookie sheet
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and we're gonna roll 'em around the handle of this spoon.
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So you have to work quickly.
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That's all I gotta say about that. (laughs)
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So in the oven these goes, these goes. (laughs)
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Okay, y'all, we're gonna have to work quick, quick, quick.
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I wish I could get them off of there.
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There we go. (laughs)
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Now I can work better, more gooder.
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Okay, I am going to get 'em started,
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and then I'm gonna wrap it around my spoon,
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And I'm gonna let 'em cool.
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So see, you can't let 'em get too crisp
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Come on, tighten up, baby.
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That one's not tight enough.
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I think I can do that one better just by hands.
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So I think I'm gonna be able to do six at the time,
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y'all, with not a great deal of effort.
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And you wanna roll 'em tight
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because we're just halfway home with this recipe.
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Once we get 'em all rolled, we'll be half through.
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I just love these things.
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If you wanna get cheap, (laughs) really cheap,
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you could buy these things that are like in the can.
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What are they called?
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- [Cameraperson] Pirouettes.
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And you could just do the second half
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of the recipe. (laughs)
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But I want 'em all homemade.
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- [Cameraperson] You ready to put the next batch in?
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- Yeah, just one second.
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I wanna roll this one a little bit tighter if I can.
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Okay, now it's time for our cookies
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to get the last step.
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I've got a cup of chocolate chips
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and one tablespoon of butter flavored shortening.
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And I'm gonna melt this in the microwave
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and I'm gonna start like at 45 seconds,
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I'm gonna take it out, stir it,
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put it back for 15 or 20 seconds.
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Okay, y'all, I've got my butter and my shortening melted,
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and I'll probably have to go back
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and I decided to put mine in a cup
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'cause you wanna go about halfway up,
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and then we gonna come over here
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and we gonna roll it nuts.
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And that's number nine of our Christmas cookies.
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Now I love the base of this cookie
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because, you know, there's so many ways
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that you could change it up
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and do it a bunch of different ways.
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I love to think about maybe piping it,
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you know, before I make that last thing
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with maybe some flavored cream cheese or something.
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I mean, just let your imagination run wild with you, y'all.
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Yes, with a cup of coffee.
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Look at our finished product.
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Now, you know, if your family's not a chocolate fan,
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you can do like buttercream icing, you know,
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just make it a little bit thicker than you normally would.
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But I just happened to think about this container
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that I had and I used to put little small glass,
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like shot glasses in there, and put fresh flowers in it.
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Sometimes I would use them to stick my wooden utensils in.
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But Eddie, when I asked Eddie, I said,
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"Have you seen anything like that?"
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He said, "Yeah, I know right where it is."
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So he went to my garage that's swipe full,
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and look how cute this is because they're hard to stack.
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And I put these in the refrigerator
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for about 10 or 15 minutes,
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and I'm so ready to taste them.
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I'm gonna start at the other end.
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(stick continues crunching)
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Michael and I adored crispy stuff.
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And this kinda tastes like Susan Green, my bubbles.
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She makes a cookie that's real, real thin.
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She doesn't roll 'em up.
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And that's why it reminds me of that particular.
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You about to shut up, Paula.
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Please try this for Christmas.
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And remember, this is the ninth day of Christmas cookie.
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It's the ninth cookie of...
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- [Cameraperson] The 12-day Christmas.
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- I don't know why that's hard for me to say.
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I'm sweating like a fat girl, right?
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And I'd love another, y'all.
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I'm so hot in here. (laughs)
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It's fun, it's different, and it's delicious. (laughs)
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
