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I want to share with y'all an email that
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I got from a viewer it was so sweet I
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get a lot of mail and this email came
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from a young woman named Becky her
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grandmother lived in Northeast Florida
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for over 40 years she said every Sunday
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we'd wake up to the smell of her making
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her special breakfast homemade biscuits
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and milk gravy it was Heaven she says
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and I can't tell you what I wouldn't
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give for just one more Sunday with my
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bomba we're going to see if we can help
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Becky you're going to make me cry and
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listen you read that email made me want
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to cry listen it's so sweet so often we
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lose those recipes so I'm going to see
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if I can't help you thank you very much
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well thank you honey so let's start by
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making the biscuit okay now we have some
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flour little sugar baking powder baking
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soda and buttermilk okay and of course
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the thing that makes it so good and
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shortening so let's measure out three
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cups of allpurpose flour into our Bowl I
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warned you I'm not a good cook listen I
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bet you're a better cook than you give
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yourself my husband is the cook in our
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is now we are going to add 2 tablespoon
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of sugar now we need 2 and 1/2 teaspoon
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of bacon powder now because we're using
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buttermilk we're going to add some soda
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to our biscuits a half a teaspoon of
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baking soda all right now the last thing
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we're going to add is about a half a
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teaspoon of salt okay so if you'll take
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your fork now and just fluff all your
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ingredients together all right
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we've got a half a cup of solid
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shortening here put that into your that
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healthy there we go when you're eating a
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biscuit you don't care do you anybody
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no does this look like I'm doing it
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correctly it looks like you're doing it
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correctly and maybe by tomorrow we'll
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have it cut in there you
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go you see not to me I can't
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cut so you just keep cutting girl all
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right and I'll start pointing your
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buttermilk for you and you can just work
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that buttermilk into your dry
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ingredients there you
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go and you can see that your dough is
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really really wet now if you want to
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wash your hands off just help yourself
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we're going to move our Bowl on over
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need this dough just a few times okay we
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don't want to overwork it though because
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that'll make our biscuits
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tough am I doing it correctly yes you're
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correctly all right that looks
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great so we wound up using a cup of
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Buttermilk all right so I'm just going
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to put that down just like that now
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we're going to take our rolling pen
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we're going to dust it with flour and
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then we're just going to
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gently roll out our biscuit dough okay
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may I do that yes you may okay there you
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go I would stop right there if I were
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you cuz I like thicker biscuits I did
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too all right now here's your flour and
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here are your biscuit Cutters so just
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dip your biscuit cutter down in there
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okay and press it down into your DP
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these are great looking biscuits girl so
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I'll spray the pan for you and you just
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lay those biscuits out the way you like
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them so now I'm just going to push down
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the middle of these because the last
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thing that we're going to do butter you
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got it hit it girl I don't think you
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need any directions on that do you
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no I like a lot of butter is that okay
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that no that's not okay of course it's
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okay girl all right our biscuits are
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ready to go in the oven and hopefully
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these are going to live up to Becky's
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memory of her bomas biscuits so we're
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going to bake these now put those in the
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450 and we'll probably bake them for
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about 14 minutes all right let's see if
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Becky they look so good we did good girl
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good I'm just going to split that
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biscuit I can't wait to try
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it I'm not going to cry on TV and I'm
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not going to cry either
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it's perfect Becky I hope that you go
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home and get in the kitchen on the
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weekends and make these biscuits and
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gravy and think of all the times that
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you spent feeling safe and secure with
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your bomba absolutely you've got
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wonderful memories absolutely that
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nobody can ever take away from you as
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long as you're breathing
