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- There is certain candies or cookie-like things
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that you have to have at Christmas.
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You know that Theresa, don't you?
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- [Theresa] Mm hmm.
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- And my cousin, Don, well,
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before COVID.
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Now this will be the first Christmas
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that we're going to celebrate,
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like a normal Christmas,
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in two year,
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two Christmases.
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Has it been, I know last year, you know,
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I didn't see or do anything,
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but Christmas is going to be as close to normal
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as I can get it
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this year.
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And cousin Don and his wife, Darlene,
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would always come spend Christmas with us
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and stay two or three weeks.
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Well, they're coming again
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and Don's going to be here on Friday
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and they have bought them a RV
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(laughs)
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So my cousin is somewhere
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out on the highway driving this RV.
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And let me go ahead and apologize for him
0:57
because he'll stop, stop, stop, stop, go.
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(laughs)
1:02
That would be my cousin out there.
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If you see something like that going on
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in an RV.
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But he's going to get here Friday
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and I'm going to work his little fanny off.
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I'm going to have him shooting some old videos with me
1:15
and just busy, busy in this kitchen.
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So I can't wait for them to get here.
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And he always makes this crack candy every Christmas.
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- [Theresa] So, see, you'll have some for him
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when he gets here.
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- Yes, I will have some ready for him to eat
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and he'll be most proud.
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So, you know, this,
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and I'm sure you probably had this recipe
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at some point
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because it's so dadgum easy.
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I want it to be called redneck candy.
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(laughs)
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Shouldn't it?
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- [Theresa] It's so good.
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- It is so, so good.
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I'm going to start with two sticks of butter,
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getting those melted.
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And
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the base to our cookie candy.
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You know, to me it's not a cookie
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and it's not really a candy,
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it's kind of a candy cookie.
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- [Theresa] Anything with (indistinct).
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- Yeah, you know, kind of.
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- [Theresa] It's kind of like a toffee, really .
2:12
- Yes, kind of, well,
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it's got toffee in it.
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So, first you start with saltine crackers
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which makes for such an easy, easy cookie.
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And we're going to use one and a half sleeves.
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I'm going to take out the broken ones
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and we're using a parchment paper.
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Now, if you don't,
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if you don't want to use parchment paper,
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you don't have to,
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you would just want to spray your pan real good
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and go line up our saltines
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just like this.
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Like I said, I'm taking out the broken ones.
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- [Theresa] I'm going to turn on the stove,
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if that's okay?
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- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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we can start that melting.
3:05
Yeah, so we really don't want to cook anything.
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Once we add the brown sugar, Theresa,
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just needs to kind of cook
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for about three minutes.
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Is that mounted enough?
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- That's up to you.
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- All right, yeah.
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As long as we can mix that brown sugar
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in with it.
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So I'm gonna add these crackers back to that sleeve
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because that'll be wonderful on top of it.
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I think, didn't Michael make some split pea soup.
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He'd love that
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on top of the soup he made.
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Okay, so.
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- It's almost melted.
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- Yeah we're going to let that cook
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for just a few minutes.
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Let me see what you, you turned it down,
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didn't you?
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Or did you turn it up?
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Anyway, that's good.
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So, over here,
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we have one cup of milk chocolate.
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We have one cup of tiny
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more so semi-sweet chocolate.
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And then we've got a cup of toffee.
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And you find this in your baking section.
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And this toffee also comes
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within a chocolate coated toffee.
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And if that's all you can find,
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that's fine to use,
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it really doesn't matter.
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All righty,
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Theresa.
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- [Theresa] I'm going to let you take over.
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- Thank you, thank you.
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- [Theresa] I just didn't want it to burn.
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- I don't want it to burn either.
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So,
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those of you out,
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out in,
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what would that be called?
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Cyber land?
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Or computer land?
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How would we refer to our friends
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that we can't meet face to face yet?
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Social media land?
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- [Theresa] Video world?
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- Yeah, video world.
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I knew I was looking for something like that, Theresa,
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and I knew you'd come up with it.
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If y'all have never made this
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and you make another kind of candy,
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share the recipe with me
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because I have so much fun sharing.
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People out there in social media land,
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when y'all send me your recipes.
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- [Theresa] We've gotten amazing recipes.
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- I know, I know.
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- [Theresa] It's crazy.
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- And it's just wonderful
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when y'all share with us.
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People enjoy those.
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- [Theresa] Well candy is such a great thing
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because it can be a gift.
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- Yes.
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- [Theresa] A giftable.
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- Absolutely
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- [Theresa] You can take it to a cookie swap.
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- Uh huh, yeah a cookie swap
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or just anybody,
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your Sunday school teacher,
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the children's teacher,
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it just makes a nice little gift.
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And you can go out and find,
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go to yard sales,
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and find some pretty jars
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and put a ribbon on those
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and decorate them up.
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And so they have something they can keep too.
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Okay.
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This just looks delicious.
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You know, my mother,
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always made divinity at Christmas time,
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always.
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And she made the most delicious,
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beautiful divinity that I've ever seen.
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And, you know,
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I've got mama's recipe,
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but I just,
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they'll never come out like mama's.
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Hers looked like an ice,
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a perfect ice-cream cone topping.
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And so, so good.
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I may try
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making some divinity, this,
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this Christmas, Eddy.
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- [Eddy] You've never done that.
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- You know, it takes two people,
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it takes two people,
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because you have to pour that hot syrup
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very, very slowly into a fine stream.
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And then once your divinity gets ready,
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it'll lose it's shine that quick.
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And you have dip, dip, dip.
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Okay, this has got a light boil to it.
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Let me see.
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Can you get down in there, Eddy?
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Can you,
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can you see in that pot?
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Yeah.
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So after it starts boiling,
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you want to let it boil
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for about three minutes.
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Just make sure everything
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is incorporated well.
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Okay, I think it's been about three minutes,
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I bet you, Eddy,
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since it first started boiling.
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Turn that off.
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Oh, and you know what we need to do?
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I need to heat the oven.
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Preheat the oven.
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All right, so,
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I'm just using a ladle
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because it'll give me a little bit more control
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over where my hot syrup is going.
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- [Eddy] You know what I discovered,
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I think you got a little leak in that now.
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We're going to have to plug,
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plug that.
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- What?
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- [Eddy] Your ladle.
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- No.
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- [Eddy] I think the tin has worn out
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in a section.
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- No.
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- [Eddy] Yeah.
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- No, that can't be,
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that can't be.
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Oh, I bought this, Eddy,
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I'm sure,
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from a yard sale
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and I just adore it.
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All right, now I'm going,
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I'm just going to take my spoon
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and spread that hot syrup
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over everything.
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Just like that.
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Oh, that syrup is very, very hot.
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So handle that with care, y'all.
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You want to do this kind of gently
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because it will move your crackers around.
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Now I thought you were telling me
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I had a hole in this pan
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and I was going to say
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oh my gosh, that's awful.
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- [Eddy] No, when I was washing it the other night,
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I had filled it up with water
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because I think there was pea soup in there.
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- Yeah.
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(laughs)
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- [Eddy] And I,
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when I was holding it up,
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water was, like,
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squirting out of that.
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- Oh no,
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no.
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Okay,
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that's pretty well distributed.
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Looks pretty good to me.
10:47
All right,
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so we're going to put this in the oven, y'all,
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350 preheated, 350.
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And we're going to let it cook
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for three to five minutes.
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So it's been maybe four minutes
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and it looks like our oven might be working.
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I hope, I hope, I hope.
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So, the caramel has melted a little bit more,
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I'm gonna see if I can get it,
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spread it out.
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Now we want to do this fairly quickly, y'all,
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because, all right,
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I'm going to turn our stove off
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and we're going to set these back in here,
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in the oven for a few minutes
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and let the leftover heat
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just melt all of our chocolate
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and our toffee
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and our nuts
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and everything.
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That looks very uneven
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but I'll make it up with this bowl.
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I do love milk chocolate though.
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And that bowl is milk chocolate.
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In fact, I think normally,
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I use just milk chocolate.
12:14
(cat meows)
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What, pumpkin?
12:21
What, pumpkin?
12:25
Okay.
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Next with the toffee,
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- [Theresa] Hmm.
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which the toffee just brings it right on over the top.
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- [Theresa] I forget how easy this is.
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- It's so easy.
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Right, does it look like I'm getting it even?
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- [Theresa] Maybe some like right in that area,
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like kinda of the center.
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- Oh, right there.
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Eyes are not what they use to be.
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Maybe right there?
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- [Theresa] I'd put a little bit more, like,
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right in here.
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- Okay, right there.
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- [Theresa] There you go, mm hmm.
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- All right, now,
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to me,
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this is the best part,
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the nuts.
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I am a nut lover.
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And it's so hard to believe people, that, say
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- [Theresa] Well, think about people that are allergic.
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- Yeah.
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- [Theresa] I mean, that would be a terrible.
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- Yeah, but, you know,
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when they tell me
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now don't put any nuts in the cream cheese icing.
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- [Theresa] What?
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(laughs)
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What, are you serious?
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- Does that look pretty even, Theresa?
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- [Theresa] Yes, ma'am.
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- Good.
13:53
All right, so,
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back in the oven these go.
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The oven's been turned off.
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We don't need it to cook,
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we just need to melt.
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There we go,
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three minutes.
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Mm mm mm.
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So that was three minutes, y'all.
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And they will cut easier
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if you cut them while they're warm.
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And I would try to cut them
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the size of the saltine,
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like that.
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Now where can I,
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where can I find that other saltine.
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It's hard to tell.
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- [Theresa] I know all that butter melts
14:58
into those saltines.
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- It just melts into it.
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All right, I got out one cracker.
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(laughs)
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Heavenly days, y'all.
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The salty from the saltine crackers
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with the sweet,
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so good.
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Yeah, you'd think you could tell.
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- [Theresa] I have to be honest,
15:52
the time that I think I made this,
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which has been,
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I didn't,
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I let it cool off.
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- Yeah.
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- [Theresa] And then it kind of broke up.
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- Yeah, Yeah.
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- [Theresa] It may not have broken up beautifully into,
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but it broke up like pieces of candy.
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- Right.
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- [Theresa] Like crack candy.
16:07
- Yeah.
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(laughs)
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So I think you get the gist
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or as Aunt Peggy said.
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I got so (indistinct) at her one day.
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Oh, and if Michael was here,
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he'd laugh all over again too,
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because he was there when she said it.
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Oh, you get the zest.
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(laughs)
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I love you, Aunt Peggy.
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Eddy and I just got back from Albany.
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I went to Albany, Indiana book signing
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at Anne's garden shop.
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And it's, you know, Theresa,
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that was the first book signing I've done since COVID.
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- [Theresa] I know.
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- And it was a huge turnout,
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huge turnout.
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- [Theresa] I bet Anne was,
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did Anne know what to do with herself.
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- She was running around, honey,
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working her head off.
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- [Theresa] I don't think people ever realize
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how many people are really going to show up.
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- Well, you, you don't ever know.
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- [Theresa] I've learned.
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- Okay.
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I'm thinking she'd show up, right here,
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at this crack party.
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- [Theresa] I can tell.
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- Delicious.
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Would you like some crack?
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- [Theresa] I sure would.
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- Your family is going to love it.
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Or whoever you share it with,
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they going to love it.
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Merry Christmas.
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