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- Hey, my dear friends.
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To refresh your memory, I am doing the 12 days
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of Christmas cookies.
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So the next one that I want to share with y'all
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is really very good.
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And it's called Memaw's kitchen sink cookies,
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and Memaw happens to be Brooke Deen,
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my daughter-in-law's grandmother, who's no longer with us,
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but she did love her Memaw so very, very much.
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And so I'm proud to share this recipe with y'all
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because it comes from MeMe with a whole lot of love.
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I didn't get to meet her,
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but I understand that she was just one fine lady.
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So let's get started.
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We have our all purpose flour,
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and I am going to add to this, our salt,
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our cream of tartar and our baking soda,
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not powder, but soda.
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So I'm just going to give this a little stir.
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When you're working with flour and adding other
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ingredients to it, if you'll use a whisk,
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it almost acts like a sifter, which is good.
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Okay so there we go, that's mixed up real good.
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Now our first step is to cream our sugars.
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So that's white sugar, Brown sugar.
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And remember they will,
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the recipe will appear on this recipe, right?
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- [Eddie] Oh yeah, yeah, there's a link.
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- Yeah, a link, that's what I was trying to say.
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There'll be a link--
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- [Eddie] for the measurements?
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- Yeah, for the measurements.
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Help me Eddie, help me Eddie.
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I'm trying to do two things at once,
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talking, unwrap butter,
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and those things are getting harder and harder.
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I don't know why. (chuckles)
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Doing two things at one time is getting harder.
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All right.
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And we're just going to cream these up real good,
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it'll take just a few minutes.
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My stepdaughter, Michelle,
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she continues her family's tradition and that was making,
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Oh my gosh, I bet they make 10 or 15 different cookies.
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And they start in October baking them.
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She texts me the other day and she said,
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we're in the kitchen, starting the Christmas cookies.
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And I said, well, it's not Halloween yet.
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She said, well, we always start this early.
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And they put them in the freezer.
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So when Christmas comes around,
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they get together and take a bag to family members
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or school teachers or something like that.
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But anyway, it's nice that they have just a little
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love gift to give to her friends and family.
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Alrighty, this is creaming pretty good, y'all
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and I love Memaw's name for this: the kitchen sink.
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Okay, the next thing we're gonna do is add our oil,
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and this looks like a lot,
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but that's what's going to make it so good.
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And we're gonna add our egg.
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You're not supposed to do that.
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You're not supposed to crack your egg over
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your bowl of ingredients because if that egg was bad,
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I'd had to start it all over again.
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So I made a booboo y'all.
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Okay, look at this, look at this, look at this.
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So Memaw says to add your flour in three times. (chuckles)
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What am I trying to say, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Three increments?
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- Yeah, three increments, thank you. (chuckles)
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All right, so Memaw tells us:
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don't forget to stop and scrape down the sides.
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Make sure everything gets mixed up good.
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I cannot wait for y'all to make all these cookies.
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I tell you what,
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one of the best cookies I have ever put in my mouth was
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sent to us by a photographer that worked with us
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opening up Paula Deen's Family Kitchen
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in Nashville, Tennessee, Phillip.
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Oh my goodness.
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Oh my goodness, you've got to watch that video.
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I'm addicted to that cookie.
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And you will know the name of it: corn flake cookies.
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They're better than any butter cookie
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you have ever, ever eaten.
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In fact, we gobbled them all down,
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like two recipes and they ain't a cookie in sight.
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What you shaking your head for, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] I've got some hidden.
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- You've got some hidden?
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You little buzzard.
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I didn't see you hide any.
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Okay so I'm gonna turn this up a little bit.
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I'm gonna get all that mixed up real good.
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You see I'm going around the sides of that bowl
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Make sure all of that gets incorporated.
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Okay, Memaw says to just beat these in lightly.
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I would almost think you'd want to fold that because I would
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think beating them is gonna break them up some.
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- [Eddie] Now what is that?
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- This is rice krispies and they are not frosted,
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they're unsweetened and this is oatmeal.
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And I'm almost thinking, we'll see, let's see what happens.
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That's on the only lowest speed we've got.
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And I think that's all I'm going to do.
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I think I'm actually going to fold in the rest.
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I'm going to try to sling some of that batter off the
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beaters and not get me and Eddie
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Did I get you Eddie?
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I didn't get me. - [Eddie] No, no.
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- All right. Yeah.
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So I'm just going to fold that in so it won't get crushed.
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Cause I do like the,
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that's what makes those cornflake cookie so good, Eddie--
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- [Eddie] Got that crunch?
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- Uh-huh, yeah, it's got that crunch and you,
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I don't know, and you beat the, you fold those corn flakes
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into your flour mixture very gently
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so they don't get crushed up.
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You gotta go find that video y'all and make those cookies.
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Your family would be so happy.
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All right now I'm gonna stir in coconut.
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And then after this, I'm going to see if I can get
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the kitchen sink unhooked and put that in there.
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Cause it calls for a kitchen sink.
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I'm kidding.
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I'm kidding.
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Don't do that kiddies.
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So I'm going to drop these on tablespoons by the tablespoon
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and bake them in the oven.
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This is one of those ingredients that makes it so good,
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y'all cause these are crunchy and this is just
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bits of brickle.
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And you can buy this in a chocolate covered brickle too.
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just the plain English toffee.
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I'll put this in cakes, cookies,
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whatever I'm doing at the time that's sweet,
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because they really add a lot to any of your sweet pastries.
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And you can see this dough is real thick.
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And now Memaw tells us to cover this
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and let it sit in the refrigerator for one hour.
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And I don't understand that part because the dough is plenty
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thick enough.
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And I may just try foregoing that step. Eddie,
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what you think?
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Why not, right?
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- Well, Hey everybody.
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I'm Bobby Deen and I'm here with my mom.
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- Look who walked in, y'all!
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- Look everybody.
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- I was so excited to see Bobby walk in.
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- Aren't you still excited?
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- Yes I am.
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- Your lipstick is just-- - oh.
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- Can you get close on that, Eddie?
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- No! (laughing)
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- Deserving of a close-up.
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It's got that crazy lady look.
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- When it runs into those wrinkles.
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- Where it's just kind of just dripping down.
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- One day you're gonna have lines around your lips too,
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but hopefully you won't have a problem with lipstick.
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All right., So here I am.
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- So anyway, what I was gonna tell him,
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I don't even think you knew that I was doing the 12 days
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of Christmas cookies.
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Did you even know?
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- I didn't know it, but I just came over on the right day.
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I love cookies and I love the 12 days of Christmas.
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- And you love your mom. - And I love you.
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- Okay, great.
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Well, before you go--
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- What day is this?
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- Thursday.
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- [Eddie] It's the second day.
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- No, is it the second?
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I thought it was like third or fourth.
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- [Teresa] Well, we're not really playing that.
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- Okay, we're not doing it that way, y'all.
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- There's the boss.
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There's Mrs. Clause.
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- [Paula] Ms. Producer.
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- What day is it, Teresa?
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- And Mr. Director.
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- [Teresa] We're not locking into which day
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these are getting posted.
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- And I'm their puppet.
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- So this'll be whatever day it happens to be.
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- [Teresa] It'll be one of the 12 days of Christmas.
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- But I do like that there's a theme
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and I do like that's it's the 12 days of Christmas cookies,
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that's really great.
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- So I made these up, Bobby, this is Memaw's Kitchen Sink
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Christmas cookies.
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And 'cause Memaw was Brooke's grandmother.
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You know, she adored her grandmother.
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- I misunderstood because you said you made these up,
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but what you mean is you made this batch,
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you didn't create this recipe.
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- Right, and it had to sit in the refrigerator for an hour
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so it's gotten stiff.
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But after we bake them off, there's still another step.
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I think that's why Memaw called these kitchen sink cookies.
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- After they're baked off. there's another step?
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That would be called eating, right?
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- [Paula] No, before we eat.
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- [Bobby] There's another preparation step.
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- So I got, I started dipping them up using that tablespoon.
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So if you would finish, Bobby.
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I will, I will, but first I wanna show everybody
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how awesome this tablespoon is, isn't it, right?
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This is some of moms, your, your products, right?
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And this goes back a few years.
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This is not new. - Many years.
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This goes back a little ways, but it's just that beautiful
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hammered look. - [Eddie] Pewter.
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- Yeah, pewter.
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- And you know, this is for dry ingredients,
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measuring dry ingredients.
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- [Bobby] Do you have more for wet?
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- Uh huh, and that's the standard measuring cup,
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you know, with the spout?
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- I've got one.
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- That's for liquids.
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- And the shape goes like this.
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Cooking lesson's over!
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- [Teresa] Did you know that in real life, Bobby?
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- I did, yeah, I've got two different
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Pyrex brand measuring cups.
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- [Teresa] 'cause she's busted me out because
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I did not know that.
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- The one that's made for wet is obvious because
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usually they have like-- - You got a spout.
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- Well, both mine have spouts, but they may both be made
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for liquid, but one of them is shaped more like
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an upside down volcano; that's the one for liquid
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and it's got a sticky bottom on so it doesn't slide.
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- You and Teresa can have a measuring cup
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conversation later.
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- All right, so after Bobby gets us baked off,
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we're putting them in a 350--
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- How many rows, three rows of four?
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- Yeah, like four.
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What was I saying?
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Now you done cut me off.
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In a preheated 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes.
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Now make sure, it's very important, Bobby,
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that your cookie batter hits the cookie sheet.
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all the same size.
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Because if you've got a bunch of dough here
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and not much here, well then the one not right here
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with not much is going to get done quicker
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than the one with a lot.
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So you want them to all get done--
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- [Bobby] It's called uniform, son!
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- [Paula] Uniform!
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- So Merry Christmas everybody.
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It's almost Thanksgiving.
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What are y'all going to do with that?
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What are you going to do for Thanksgiving?
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Not gathering obviously, right?
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It's going to be small, small little,
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I guess Claudia and I are going to eat pine cones
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with our children.
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- I know it!
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Y'all gonna be eating pine cones and pine straw.
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- That's what my brother always says about me.
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Everybody makes fun of me and that's all right.
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It's all right.
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- They eat so healthy and so natural.
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- Compared, compared to everybody else,
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that's what they're talking about.
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- We feel like all they do is go out in the yard--
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- And eat pine cones, that's my brother's joke.
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- Pick up sticks and eat sticks.
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- Y'all just eating pine cones.
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What are you talking about?
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- [Eddie] Aren't we going to his house to eat pine cones?
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- Well, we got plenty of them so y'all can all come
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as long as you stay socially distanced
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and outside the gate.
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You can eat the pine cones that fall out
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of the neighbor's trees and you can peek over the gate
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if you got a stool.
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- You are too good to your family.
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You know that, right?
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I'm sure you've been told.
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Y'all want to give away the secret.
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You wanna tell the truth now?
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You live at my house.
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- I do, y'all because we sold Riverbend
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and it just, as you get older, you just don't want
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that kind of responsibility of that much property.
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Five acres was tough.
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But so anyway,
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we never sold this Dogwood house because this is where
16:53
Michael and I met,
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this is where he lived his whole entire life.
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- I'm not Michael.
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So, you know, we just never wanted to sell it.
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- Yeah and tt was a good choice because look how
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beautiful this house is.
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it's always been special to me.
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It's always been special to me because we shot all of
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Paula's best dishes here.
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So much of Paula's home cooking,
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and this room over here behind Eddie
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that he's about to show,
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like I can just see Gordon Elliot and his crew.
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- [Paula] I know, I was just talking about that.
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- [Bobby] In there and us just laughing
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and having the best time.
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- [Paula] Kids sitting on there playing the guitar.
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- [Bobby] Yeah, this is where I got a buddy that,
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that plays major league baseball, his name's Albert Pujols,
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and he and I shot together in this kitchen.
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- Yeah and then he came and shot a show with me.
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- Then Albert and I went and played the golf tournament
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down in Brunswick, Georgia with another baseball buddy,
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named Adam Wainright, who's from this area.
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And golly, Mama's had so many special and important guests
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and different kind of people in this house and in here
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making food with her and it's just,
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you know, we talked about this when Mom was getting ready
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to move out of the big house over there, the Riverbend house
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and this was a conversation we had,
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aren't you gonna miss it, don't you feel bad?
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Yeah, go ahead and put those in there
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and I'll do the second one.
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You know you're gonna miss it, there's just so much
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important stuff that happened here.
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And this is all just so great.
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I like this house and this property so much better.
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I've got many more--
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- That's what all of you children have said.
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- I've got many more important memories here
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than at Riverbend.
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Yeah, that's true for me.
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- Oh I'm so glad.
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Michelle and Anthony are so excited.
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- Oh I'm sure, it's like a homecoming.
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- Right, it's like going home again.
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- This is, you know, this is for me,
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this is just mom's house, you know, for a long time.
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But, but for what you're seeing right now,
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you see this picture of the chicken up there,
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and then the painting, pictures.
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And then the, you know, the wood burn oven
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And like, this is the iconic, this is the set of
19:21
your TV show for years and years and years.
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- Probably almost 10 years.
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- It's a pretty special place to me.
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All right, so these cookies are coming out like perfectly.
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I'm not having any problems.
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What's the next step?
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- Well, I just made myself a double bullet
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using a glass bowl.
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And it's sitting on top of a pot.
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The water is not touching the bottom of that bowl though.
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You want to make sure.
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- Good old double bullet.
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Hey, let me tell y'all something.
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- Wait, wait, wait, one second, son.
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- Sorry, you got enough cookie dough here
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for 25 Christmases.
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- Oh, and you're just getting started.
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- I am?
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Who are we making cookies for?
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America's Second Harvest?
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- That would be a good idea.
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- That would be a good idea, we should deliver some.
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America's Second harvest is the local food bank
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here in Savannah, Georgia, and my brother, God bless him,
20:19
He's a great guy, he just really is.
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He's got, he's got, he's very,
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he's got a very community oriented mind and heart,
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and he's worked with America's second harvest for years.
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You and I have done some stuff there too.
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And something that is really special for us too,
20:33
is we like to, well, I've already started to say it,
20:37
so I'm going to say it,
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but sometimes when you do things and then you talk about it,
20:42
it sort of robs away from the fact that you're doing it,
20:45
but we'd like to do some work with, with salvation army too.
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So the reason that I'm saying that is,
20:50
is not to toot your horn or hours,
20:55
but maybe suggest to you all out there,
20:57
if you're trying to figure out something to do for the
20:59
holidays this year to make something really special,
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if you visit a salvation army or America's second harvest
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and donate your time or some goods,
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it'll really do you a lot.
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- I don't ever think of publicly announced.
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- Yeah, well, it's different 'cause I did it.
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It's kind of natural because I was just thinking about it.
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- That gave me so much pleasure through the years
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to watch those children and to hug their
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mamas and their daddies.
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And I remember one man, his wife had died and he had
21:35
like three little children and he stood up there
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and hugged me and cried.
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I cried with him.
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I've got some good memories.
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- You've done a lot of good for a lot of people.
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All right, what's next?
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- What's next is I forgot to set a timer.
21:54
All right, so we've put our cookies in a 350 degree
21:57
preheated oven and Memaw said to bake them for 15 minutes.
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Well, I've probably had those in two minutes already.
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So I'm going to send them a 13.
22:07
And you know, the time will fly just like that.
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- Always does.
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- So I told ya that I put my white chocolate.
22:15
I had the bag, where'd it go?
22:17
Okay, let's show everybody what I'm using
22:21
'cause there's one more step, y'all to these cookies.
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And one of these ain't going to be enough for that bucket
22:30
full of dough. - Lot of dough.
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- Lot of dough.
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- All right, what you want me to do?
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Well, we can kind of wash the dishes and just wait
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for 15 minutes to pass.
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- I didn't come to wash no dishes.
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I do that at my house.
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- Well you sit there and watch the clock then.
22:51
Okay, now we're fixing to finish Mema's
22:54
kitchen sink cookies up.
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The last step is to dip them in our melted
23:03
white chocolate and then sprinkle them
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with crushed peppermint.
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How does that look, Bobby?
23:12
- It looks very very good, I would like one.
23:15
- Memaw is a winner.
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- [Bobby] Not just yet.
23:21
- Oh, okay, well, you said you wanted one.
23:23
- I do, but you see, I still need to go to the oven.
23:32
- I love this.
23:33
Now that that white chocolate, y'all,
23:36
is gonna get hard again.
23:45
So you'll be able to put these in.
23:46
Bobby, you want to do this?
23:48
This is fun.
23:50
- Is it?
23:51
Is it, Tom Sawyer?
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- Your children are gonna love this.
23:56
Tom Sawyer. (laughing)
24:00
- Wanna come paint my fence?
24:01
It's fun.
24:08
- I love these cookies and they're just the perfect size.
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You know, you can eat three and you just say
24:14
that it's real tiny.
24:16
- Just want three more.
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All right put some of the-- - Oh okay.
24:19
- I'll dip them and you load them up.
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- You dip 'em, I'll stick 'em.
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- With the peppermint.
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You just kind of drop it down in there.
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- Uh-huh, yeah, that's what you do.
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Oh, you did perfect on that one.
24:39
Look at all that.
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I love it.
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I hope the child will get in the kitchen and try some of
24:51
these recipes that my family and are sharing with y'all.
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You know, they've been tested.
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They are tried and true honey.
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So join me in our 12 day of Christmas cookies.
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Love and best dishes, y'all.
25:08
Bobby, tell them love and best dishes, son.
25:10
- We'll see y'all again soon.
25:13
- He ain't gonna say it.
25:14
- That's your line.
25:16
- Well, what's your line?
25:18
- Bye, y'all.
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