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- I wanna share a little bit
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of this letter with y'all that I got.
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I know how this young woman feels.
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I have felt those same feelings that she has felt
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and her name is Jill Biggins and she starts off,
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"well, I have probably missed this opportunity
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but I wanted to share this very special recipe anyway.
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My dad hand wrote this recipe for me
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when I was around 18 years old
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and it's always been my favorite at any celebration.
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Everybody always loved it.
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And you can eat the raw dough
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'cause there's no eggs in this one."
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She said, "one of my biggest sadnesses in life
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has always been that I live so far away
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from the rest of my family.
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My family lives in Washington state"
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and she lives in Florida.
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I don't wanna make y'all sit through all of it,
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but she said, "she'd make these cookies
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and take and share with the class or bake sales"
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and her daughter even "started making these
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for her friend's birthday present
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and when my daughter got married,
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I asked my dad to write a copy of the recipe for her as well
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and I wanted it to look just like mine,
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handwritten on graphed paper and he was so happy to do so
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and the picture you see of him,"
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wait, maybe I have it right here.
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She sent me two pictures.
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There he is baking cookies with his daughter, with Jill.
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So that's wonderful that you have that, Jill.
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And this is another picture of her daddy.
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All right, so let's go back.
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"And he was happy to do so
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and he was testing the recipe to make sure it was perfect
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after all these years
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and he and Kandi came down for the wedding,"
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I guess Kandi is his partner,
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"to make sure the recipe was perfect.
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He and Kandi came down for the wedding
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and before he gave it to her,
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they had to make cookies together
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and that was the last time we were able to visit in person.
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My dad was one of the first
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to lose his battle with COVID in 2020
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but what a wonderful last memory I have.
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I believe it was the following year
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that I had a platter made for each of my kids
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with the recipe and his picture on it.
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If you ever get around to making 'em,
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I hope you enjoy 'em as much as we do.
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Sincerely, Jill Biggins."
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Thank you so much, Jill, for sharing
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something that means so much to you for the rest of us.
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So this is called an easy drop chocolate cookie
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and we're gonna start with a half a cup of shortening.
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Now, this is butter flavored.
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I just like using the butter flavored solid shortening
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Let me see, do we have, do we have a formula for this?
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Anyway, it's a half a cup of shortening.
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Three fourths a cup of sugar,
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a fourth of a cup of brown sugar
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and three fourths of a cup of buttermilk.
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"Now, daddy said, yuck.
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If I drank it from a glass cup or a carton,
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Listen, I'm the same way.
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I love buttermilk ranch dressing.
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I love buttermilk in my cakes
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but to drink it, no way Hosanna
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as Cari used to say when she was a little girl.
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And one teaspoon of vanilla.
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So I really don't see, let's see.
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He just says "mix thoroughly."
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So I'm gonna beat this up first.
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And then we have our dry ingredients
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that we need to gather up.
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Now, on our recipe, we have chosen to use walnuts
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'cause I love walnuts, y'all.
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But you can certainly use pecans or almond or macadamia nut,
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whatever your favorite nut is.
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So we have two cups of flour, we have baking soda,
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and we have walnuts and chocolate chips.
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So let's see, I'm gonna make sure
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I have the dry ingredients mixed together and I'm not gonna,
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I'm not gonna put these in using the mixer
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because I don't want it to chop up the chips and the walnuts
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so I'll just stir them in after we get all this blended.
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So I'm gonna fold in a cup of chocolate chips
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and I think they're semisweet.
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- [Theresa] No, those are actually,
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yes, those are semisweet.
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- Yeah, that's what I figured.
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Yeah, she just says "one cup of chocolate chips"
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so you could use milk chocolate,
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dark chocolate, semisweet, whatever you want
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and you know what's gonna make these cookies
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taste so good, y'all?
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I can go ahead and tell it right now.
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It's that orange zest.
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The orange smell smells like the ride at Disney World.
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I think it's called Soaring.
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And seems like your soaring trip starts down in Florida
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and the air is all of a sudden just full of orange juice
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and orange smell while you're soaring over Florida.
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It's just what it smells like in here.
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Now, they say to bake these cookies at 400 degrees,
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which is that's a hot, hot oven.
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I think that's what I read.
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Yeah, "bake at 400 for eight to 10 minutes."
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So that's a hot oven.
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All right and he said "do it by a heaping teaspoonful"
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All right, I'm gonna help me, help meself out a little bit.
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I'm gonna spray my spoon
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so hopefully the batter won't stick to.
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These are all really clean.
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It just had like dry ingredients in it, Theresa.
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You know what I'm gonna need?
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I'm gonna need two spoons.
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That looks like my mama's divinity.
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Yeah, I should moved him over a little closer.
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Thank you, Jill, for sharing that recipe with me.
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I did taste the raw dough
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and it is so very good with that orange zest.
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Okey-dokey, it's been such a fun day
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and such a good tasting day.
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And Jill, I thank you so much for sharing this recipe
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with all of us out there
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and I'm so glad that these cookies bring you good memories
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of when you were in the kitchen with your daddy making 'em.
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So thank you, girl, for sharing something
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that's very special to you
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and I have to tell you, I've already tasted one
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and they are delicious
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but I'll taste one more to just make sure.
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And it is delicious.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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