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- [Paula] We were looking at this, uh, this recipe,
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now that sounds like an old timey Christmas cookie.
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And we, Casey and I both said, yes it does.
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And Jamie Williams sent this one in to me.
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And it's, it says, no title provided "raisin balls"
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So that's a good name for me, Jamie, raisin balls.
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She said, my mom made this cookie every year for Christmas.
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I hope you pick me for your 12 days of Christmas cookies.
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I love you all so much.
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And we return that love to ya, girl.
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Nothings sweeter than the sound of your words.
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All right, I'm gonna put in two cups of golden raisins
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in the skillet and I'm gonna cover it with one cup of water.
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And Jamie says to, uh,
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let those cook until all the water
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has cooked out of them.
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So that's, that's what we're gonna do.
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So they gonna be real plump
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Jamie told us to, uh, cook our golden raisins, two cups
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of raisins and one cup of water until the water is gone.
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And you can see the water is gone.
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(Casey laughs off-screen)
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So we're gonna have some wonderful plump
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golden raisins for our raisin balls.
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Now the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna cream
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is it one cup of oil?
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- Not a cup and a half?
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Wonder where my glasses are?
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(Laughing) Let me get 'em.
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one and a half cups of sugar.
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That's where I saw the one and a half.
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All right, so we're gonna beat our
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our oil and our sugar.
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Normally at this point it would usually you think
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about butter, but uh these are gonna be with oil
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So that's gonna be very interesting.
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- Do you ever make cookies using oil?
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- You know, I don't recall it either.
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just don't recall it.
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All right, let's see.
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Cream those together then add two eggs,
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three cups of flour, a half a teaspoon of salt
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and one teaspoon of vanilla extract
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along with one teaspoon of baking soda.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and add, oops.
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I'm gonna go ahead and add our eggs
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and I'll go ahead and add our vanilla
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- [Casey] Here's some more if you need
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- Thank you. You know, I want some more vanilla.
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If it calls for one teaspoon, I'll usually do two
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(Laughing off-screen)
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All right, we got a little salt
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So I'm mixing our dry ingredients together.
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Why does that vanilla always look like it
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Some wants to stay in the bottom of the bowl.
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We're on our way, Jamie.
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Now the last thing that we're gonna add
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is gonna be our raisins
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after they're cooled.
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You wanna stick those in the fridge, Casey, or either
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in this refrigerator drawer right there?
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- [Casey] Mm-hmm, yep.
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- Because these are gonna mix up pretty quickly,
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I think the raisins to cool.
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I think this'll get done first.
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And Jamie says this makes like seven dozen
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Is that what she said?
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- That's a bunch of raisin balls.
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And we're gonna roll these in sugar
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before we bake 'em right?
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And I like that. That gives your cookies
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a little crackled, kind of a little crackled look.
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The last thing to go in our bowl
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And if you didn't have golden raisins
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I think a regular raisin would work fine.
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- Does a golden raisin taste different from
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- [Eddie] I don't know.
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I've never done a taste test.
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And again, this is a stiff batter
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so it's gonna require a little work.
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I'm getting my workout today.
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Looks like mashed potatoes with raisins.
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(Laughing off-screen)
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And, uh, Jamie said they make
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So I'm thinking she must make 'em
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cause they're gonna puff up.
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I couldn't wait for it to cool. I'm sorry.
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But I'm one of those people that I love
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but this is really good.
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They're kind of cakey
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and your instructions said bake for 10 to 15
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And I probably baked these about 13 to 14 minutes.
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So thank you so much, girl, for sharing this recipe with us.
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This is one of those cookies that's gonna get better
