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This brings back so many memories.
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Some of 'em good, some of 'em hard, y'all.
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My cousin George is here
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and he's over there gobbling down some lunch.
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He lives in Colorado.
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Huh, you doing your part? - [George] I'm doing my part.
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- Yes, he came to check on his mama.
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And so he spent a lot of time
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with great, great my aunt Peggy.
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So what I'm fixing to share with y'all today,
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make sure you keep this in your recipe file
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because it's so good,
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especially during the summer
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when all the fruits are just at their peak.
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And it's french cream.
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because to me, a custard is cooked,
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I'm gonna start by whipping one cup of heavy cream,
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along with a fourth of a cup of sugar,
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is my measurement that I use for each cup of whipping cream.
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I've got lemon juice.
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I've got pineapple juice.
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I've got confectioner's sugar and I've got cream cheese.
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And I made this every day when I started the Bag Lady.
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For y'all that don't know,
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I started the Bag Lady.
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Jamie and I ran our first route on June the 19th, 1989.
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And my husband had given me $200
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for my income tax refund.
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And I took that $200.
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I bought a cooler, a business license,
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and $50 worth of groceries.
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it was such an experience.
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So both of my children and eventually their girlfriends,
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so we had at one time, five routes here in Savannah,
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my boys and their girlfriends ran the four main routes here
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And they would bring in,
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I would wait for them to get back home,
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they'd bring in their receipts,
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and I would take that
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and I would immediately leave for the grocery store
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to go buy tomorrow's food.
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And you know, I said, only in America.
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Only in America can something like that happen
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to a southern, overweight, gray-headed,
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But you know, that's the thing, y'all,
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if you're passionate about something,
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don't lose that passion.
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The only catch is it's gonna require hard, hard work.
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So I went on for the next seven years
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to the hardest time of my life,
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working 16, sometimes 18 hour a day, every day.
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So thank God I was blessed and I survived.
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I was so thankful for my physical ability
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to be able to stand up and work.
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And I still say that today,
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and I've met so many wonderful people along my journey.
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Okay, so french cream,
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I had the little clam shells, you know,
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the clear clam shell containers.
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And I would put my beautiful green lettuce
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and then I'd pile it full of my fruits.
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And then I would have a container of French cream
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for people to dip in.
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And I couldn't make enough of them.
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The women just loved them.
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(mixer softly whirring)
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I'm gonna start out slower
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or else I'm gonna have this all over me.
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So I just dropped my eight ounce package of cream cheese
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in with my whipping cream,
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and it's at room temperature.
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You'll wanna make sure it's at room temperature.
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So now I'm gonna add my confectioner's sugar.
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I'm gonna add my lemon juice.
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I'm gonna add a little pineapple juice.
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Now, it depends on what kind of juice you had.
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I use these juices just to thin it a little bit.
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And this is pineapple juice.
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You know, it was whatever I had in my refrigerator.
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Pineapple, orange juice.
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Gosh, you could even use apple juice.
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I really use that as a thinning agent for it.
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Look at this beautiful French cream, would you?
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beautiful, beautiful.
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And last, I add my zest.
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And I don't add this using the mixer
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because I don't want my zest to get lost in the blades
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and I lose half of it.
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I don't want that to happen.
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So at the end, I just stir or fold that in.
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Okay. (spatula bangs)
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Like I said, I wish my boys were here
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George, did you ever-
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- [George] I'm just sitting here wondering
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when you're gonna say, "He'll do."
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Mmm! - [George] Yeah, he'll do.
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This is the way I like to eat the French custard.
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Oh, the french cream.
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Isn't that delicious? - [George] Mm-hmm.
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- Like I said, keep this in y'all's file
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watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew,
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whatever kind of fruit you choose,
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Love to the Bag Lady.
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And now the Bag Lady still lives,
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but it lives in the form of my foundation,
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the Paula Deen Bag Lady Foundation.
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And our goal is to help women
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and their children should they have any.
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So it's a very worthy foundation
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and you can go online if you want to
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and learn more about it there.
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So I love you Bag Lady.
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Love and best dishes from the original Bag Lady.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
