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- During the hot summer months, y'all,
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our children stay thirsty
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and I know we want to encourage them to drink water,
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I have an addiction to diet sodas.
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So I am thinking that I'm gonna try,
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during the hot summer months,
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I'm gonna try to drink more iced tea than I do diet drinks
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because I've heard from everybody they're not good for ya
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but they sure do taste good.
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So I'm gonna share with y'all
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this recipe for a blackberry mint tea.
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Let me give you the proper name for it.
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Blackberry lemon mint tea.
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And so I'm gonna, I'm only doing a half a recipe
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because we don't have any children here today
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to take advantage of guinea's blackberry mint tea.
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All right, now I've got one quart of water
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that I'm gonna bring to a boil.
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I've got three family size Luzianne tea bags
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that I'm gonna be adding to the water
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and I've got, like I said, I'm only halving this recipe
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and it calls for eight fresh mint leaves torn
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so I'm only gonna use the four.
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And we wanna tear this up or at least crush it
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because unless you crush that mint,
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that flavor is not gonna do what it's supposed to.
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Must be crushed and it smells so good.
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So after that water boils, we want,
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oh, I think one more would be good.
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All right, so as soon as that boils,
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this is gonna go in there
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and our other ingredients are gonna be fresh blackberries,
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a cup of sugar and a teaspoon of lemon zest
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but we've got to get this done first
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before we can start adding everything else.
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Our water has come to a boil.
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and I'm gonna dunk our three tea bags in here
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and remember, that's because we are only making a half,
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And then our mint leaves.
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And we're gonna let this sit and steep for 15 minutes.
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15 minutes, it's gonna do its magic.
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Our tea and our mint has been steeping for 15 minutes
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and now, I'm gonna pour our blackberries
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into a nice big black bowl.
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I'm gonna cover them with our sugar
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which that lemon zest is gonna just really be an ingredient
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that the doctor ordered.
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It's gonna be so good.
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And this is piping hot.
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Always get all the goody out of the tea bags
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but of course, I'm sure y'all know that by now
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and I'm gonna get all the goody.
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Pour in the hot tea and the mint
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over the sugar and the blackberries and I'm gonna stir it
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because I want that sugar to go ahead and dissolve.
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And we're gonna let this sit for 20 minutes
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Sure does smell good, y'all.
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I love lemon in my tea, in my iced tea.
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This is just too yummy.
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All right, our blackberries and our sugar and our mint
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has been sitting there approximately 20 minutes
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and I'm gonna just kinda squeeze the liquid
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out of those blackberries.
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I got all these beautiful blackberries, y'all,
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and they're nice and sweet.
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You know what I'm gonna do with 'em?
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I'm gonna put together a little blackberry cobbler
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It's got just enough blackberries
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for two to four people to have as dessert
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so I'm gonna get good mileage out of these blackberries.
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Now, you may wanna strain that
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because the seeds from the blackberries went to the,
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oh, there it is, went to the bottom.
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Some people do not like the blackberry seeds
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'cause they get all in your teeth.
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But it's worth using a little dental floss, y'all.
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And I tell y'all, I've been,
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as it was cooling, I was kinda getting me a spoon
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and sipping on it and it is delicious.
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You want a sip, Therese?
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- [Theresa] It's got great flavor.
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- Eddie, would you like some?
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It's probably, had I not mashed those blackberries,
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it probably wouldn't have been as maybe purple
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but I squeezed the last breath of juice out of 'em.
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So this is a great, great refresher for the summer
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and it does have sugar in it
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but you could use a sugar substitute
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and I wouldn't feel bad about the children having this
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So happy summer to y'all.
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You're gonna want a drink
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by the time them children go back to school.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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