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Holiday Recipes: Peppermint Bark - Today Paula’s sharin' an inexpensive and heartfelt homemade gift idea that’s delicious and great if you’re in a pinch…Peppermint Bark!
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- Hey y'all, come on in the kitchen with me.
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Today, I kind of look like a peppermint candy, don't I Eddy?
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- [Eddy] Mhm.
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- Well guess what,
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recipe I'm fixing to share with y'all now?
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I think I'm dressed appropriately.
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We're going to be making peppermint bark.
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And I've got in mind y'all,
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I know when my boys were in grade school
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and Christmas would come around, I'd go to the dime store.
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And I bought, you know,
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pretty little cheap glass containers.
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They were probably all 99 cents,
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and I would make all different kinds of candies
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and fill those jars up, and put a pretty bow on them.
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And my children would give those as their teacher's gifts.
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And I remember Jamie Dean still talks about it this day.
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He said, "Mama, I was so proud."
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"I was so proud when I walked in."
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And she said, "Oh Jamie, that's beautiful."
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And he was so proud to say, "My mama made it."
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"My mama made it."
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And like I said, to this day at 53
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he still talks about that.
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So if you want to give somebody a special gift
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but you don't have a budget that would choke a horse.
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Personally, I love gifts where people didn't necessarily
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have to go out and buy anything,
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but they actually gave of themselves.
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Because when you give something like this,
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you're given your time which is very valuable.
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And to me, that makes it so, so special.
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So, when we get through with it,
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I have some little containers over here
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that we're going to put it in.
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And I do still like those glass jars
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that I used to get and use.
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So we're melting y'all two pounds of white chocolate,
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and I've got them over a double boiler.
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You want to make sure that your bowl,
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the bottom of your bowl doesn't actually touch the water.
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So to this we're gonna add about two teaspoons
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of peppermint extract.
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So.
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We're going to take our candy canes
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or the round peppermints, whatever you have,
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and I like putting these in a bag and take my hammer.
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Take my hammer to them, and crush them.
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And you know, peppermint these days comes
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in all different colors.
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It's not necessarily just the red and the whites
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so you can mix your colors.
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Personally I like the green and the red
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because my favorite Christmas ice cream.
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Y'all want to see it?
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Let me show it to you.
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This is my favorite, favorite special vanilla.
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Got some vanilla.
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But look at it,
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Michael and I have almost eaten all of it.
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And see how it's got the red
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and the green peppermints in it?
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Oh, it's so good.
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So that would be pretty to fix a bowl
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of this ice cream all balled up,
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and stick a piece of peppermint bark in it.
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That'd be a nice gift, if your ice cream wouldn't melt.
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All right.
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So I'm stirring these up
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because that water is just boiling.
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And while I'm showing y'all
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my favorite specialty Christmas ice cream.
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A friend that I've never met sent me this scoop,
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this ice cream scoop.
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If something happened to this, I would cry like a baby.
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I put this under just the hottest water I can get
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out of my faucet and I turn it over,
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and let it run on that for a few minutes.
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And you can see it's got a liquid in it,
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in the handle that kind of helps it keep everything warm
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or cold, whichever you want.
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But thank you my friend for sending me this ice cream scoop.
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It is literally the best ice cream scoop I've ever had.
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All right.
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Let's see what it says.
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www.thatinventions.com.
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Scoop, what does that say Eddy?
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I gotta watch my chocolate, or I'm going to have a mess.
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Y'all just, if you're an ice cream eater
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and I tell y'all what, Michael and I eat a bowl
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of ice cream every night of our lives
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before we go to bed.
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We just look so forward to.
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Michael will be watching TV in another room
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and he'll come in and walk into the kitchen
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and look and see what's out and around.
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Have you had ice cream yet?
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And he acts like he gets pure mad
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if I have eaten my ice cream and not called him
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to come in and get his, but this is so good.
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And this is a premium Publix brand of ice cream.
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I'll be back to you tonight.
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Love, love.
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I wish I could be that in love with carrots or celery.
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Why does it have to be ice cream?
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All right.
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It's starting to get melted y'all.
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It's still got some chunks in it.
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I just want to make sure that it's not touching the bottom.
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I don't think it is.
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You know, probably most of y'all
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have a actual double boiler, you know,
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that came with maybe your kitchen ware
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or something like that.
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But if you don't have one,
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this works very, very well to just use a glass bowl
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and a pot that fits your glass bowl properly.
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So you don't have to go out and buy anything.
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This will work just fine.
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Okay, we're almost there.
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Okay, that's melted and it's beautiful y'all,
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it's real smooth.
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And now I'm going to add like two teaspoons
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of peppermint extract.
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Now just use your imagination when you're making something
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like this, and create it any way you want to.
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You know, I think nuts would be good in this.
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So just think about it.
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I think raisins would be good in it.
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So just let your imagination run wild.
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So in goes our peppermint pieces.
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So we're just going to stir that up.
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I mean this is super simple.
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And coming up, I'm going to share some other recipes
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that I think are wonderful for gift giving.
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And we're going to talk about compound butters.
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So now we're just gonna flip this over.
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So I'm trying to go against, or go with the roll.
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All right.
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I'm going to get a little spray,
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and then we'll spray the back of my spatula.
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So hopefully none of this will stick.
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And we're just going to spread this out,
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and then we're going to stick it in the refrigerator.
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And let it get cold again.
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All right, I'm going to have to slip to the one
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that I prepared Eddy.
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See it works much better if you spray it.
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And you can make this as thick as you want,
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or as thin as you want.
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Just depends on how much rubbing you want to do to it.
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Do you like yours thick or thin Eddy?
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- [Eddy] I think I like a thin.
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- [Paula] Okay, somehow I knew you would say that.
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He wants to see me do more work doesn't he y'all?
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All right.
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Okay I'm gonna get this over here where I can.
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- [Eddy] Smells so good.
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- [Paula] Doesn't it smell delicious
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that peppermint extract?
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Can you imagine this with a bowl of that ice cream?
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- [Eddy] Mhm.
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You might crinkle some of that up.
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- [Paula] I know, I know.
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Speaking of crinkle and sprinkling, all that good stuff.
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Do you think, is it getting thin enough for you yet Eddy?
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- [Eddy] Yeah it looks good.
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I'll just eat the outside pieces.
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- [Paula] Aha.
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(Paula laughs)
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Yeah.
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Okay here we go.
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Here we go.
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Let's do something that I've never done before
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when I was making bark, but what the heck?
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Let's try it.
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You know if it messes up, I'll keep it and eat it.
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I got some sprinkles.
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So let's just sprinkle it and see what happens.
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- [Eddy] That's some green.
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- [Paula] That's pretty.
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Ain't that pretty y'all?
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- [Eddy] Mhm.
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- [Paula] All right, so now let's add some more red.
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So say you really can, just whatever your imagination,
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just use it, use it and be creative.
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Oops, I dropped some right over there Eddy.
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Hear that peppermint?
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It's good.
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So I'm going to take this out
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and put it in the big refrigerator outside
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in the garage, and I'll probably leave it
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for about 45 minutes.
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And then we'll break it up,
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and we gonna put it in our pretty little gift boxes.
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You know, there must be a lot of folks out there that are
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in cookie swaps or gives homemade things for gifts,
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because they have so many of these,
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like at the dollar store.
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- [Theresa] That's where I got those, the dollar store.
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- You know, pay a dollar for them.
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And this one, I love this one.
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That Theresa picked up because you can see through it.
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You can see what you're getting.
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- [Theresa] I knew you would like the open one.
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- Yes.
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All right, so Theresa, would you like to take
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that since you're closest to that refrigerator?
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And after it hardens, I'll come back
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and I'll fill these gift boxes and just show y'all,
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you know kind of what it looks like.
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And then like I said, we're going to be talking
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about other great gift ideas that come from your kitchen,
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and from your heart.
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Okay, our candy is ready,
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our peppermint candy with the red
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and the green speckles.
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Now, all I'm going to do is just break this up
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into what I feel like is edible sizes.
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You know, some people may like half this cookie sheet,
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but I'm just going to do it in what I think is doable sizes.
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Now I have parchment paper that comes in a roll
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so you can cut any size you need.
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So I cut me a square of parchment paper,
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and naturally we wash these containers y'all,
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you don't want to put any type of food
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that you're giving away or even keeping.
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You don't want to put them in a container
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that has not been washed.
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So I'm using, oh my gosh this is so pretty.
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And it takes no time y'all to get it hard,
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and I love the sprinkles on it, don't you Eddy?
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- [Eddy] Yeah it looks great.
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- It really kind of perked it up.
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So now, I'm going to see if our cover will go on with
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the parchment paper.
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And I think it would work, that sealed up pretty good.
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And just kind of cramp it up.
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Put a little bow on it.
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And you're going to make somebody very, very happy.
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- [Theresa] Me.
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- [Paula] Theresa said her y'all.
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- [Eddie] The lid with the clear top looks nice.
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- [Paula] Yeah isn't that nice?
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You got fingerprints on it so.
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If I had taken my time I'm sure I can get a prettier piece
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of tissue paper, or you know what you could do,
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you could use the real tissue paper
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'cause it's much thinner.
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That would be pretty too.
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But I know that Jamie Deans teachers would have loved
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this as a gift.
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So Merry Christmas y'all.
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And I will be back with more ideas for homemade gift giving.
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As soon as I get through with this bark.
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So good.
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Would you like a piece of my bark Eddy?
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- [Eddy] Yes.
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- Please.
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So good.
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Theresa, would you like some?
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Or are you taking the whole thing home?
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