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- Hey, y'all.
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Over the years, there have been a few recipes that,
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I don't care what piece of the country I'm in,
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somebody's gonna say something about a certain recipe.
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Well, this is one of those recipes.
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And you talk about easy, easy, easy,
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and it's my orange blossoms or lemon blossoms.
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And the recipe was in, I think, my second cookbook,
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"The Lady & Sons, Too!"
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And I know that it's also in the "Kitchen Classics" book.
0:41
So you can make an orange blossom,
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which is the recipe here in the book,
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but I'm gonna make lemon blossoms
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in the little miniature cups.
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And you're just not gonna believe how good these are.
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And I'm starting with a cake mix, y'all.
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And
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I have instructions
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(package rustling)
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in the recipe
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as to how to put the cake together.
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And it's real simple, too.
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One yellow cake mix,
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one small box of lemon instant pudding,
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and let's see, I've got 3/4 a cup of oil,
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and 3/4 a cup of water.
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So I think that's pretty much
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what it said on the box, didn't it Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yes.
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- Some cake mixes call for softened butter,
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some call for oil.
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So, I just like the way oil,
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how it reacts with the cake mix.
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It just makes it very, very moist.
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All right, so we just gonna mix this up good.
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We gonna beat beat it for a couple of minutes
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and now I'm gonna add my eggs.
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Kind of one at a time.
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(mixer whirs)
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And, you don't wanna use,
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you don't wanna use the little muffin liners
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for this recipe,
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because after we bake 'em off,
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they gonna be taken a wonderful bath.
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All right.
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So on with our lemon blossoms.
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All right, I'm gonna wanna make sure,
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these are nonstick pans,
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but I wanna make sure that I spray 'em real, real good
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because we don't want any sticking.
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(cooking spray fizzes)
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and I'm using the
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(cooking spray fizzes)
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(pan clatters)
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the spray that has flour in it also,
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so it's really good to keep it from sticking.
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So every time I go look for something, y'all
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(Paula chuckling)
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I have to remember that we're not living in our house,
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we're living in Bobby's house (chuckling)
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and my stuff is in storage. (chuckling)
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So, you wanna make sure that your muffin tins
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are filled
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exactly even.
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Now, I've sprayed this.
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I sprayed this so that our batter will come out
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and I'm using about a tablespoon per hole
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'cause, like I said, we wanna make sure
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they all get cooked at the same time.
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So I'm not gonna ask y'all to watch this.
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This is like watching paint dry.
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- [Michael] Why do they call it badder?
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They shoulda called it gooder.
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(Paula laughing)
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- Now y'all see what I live with?
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He thinks of all this crazy stuff that I never think of.
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But it's like his little mind never stops. (chuckling)
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He thinks up the goofiest stuff.
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Well, it's batter, not better.
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See, if it was called better,
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I'm like you, I would question it, but it's batter.
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- [Michael] Yeah, like bad, badder.
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(Paula chuckling)
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- But it's actually gooder. (chuckling)
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Okay, we've got all the tins filled
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and it's actually gonna make about four dozen.
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You know, it could vary a little bit,
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depending on how full you filled your cups.
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So, in the oven they go.
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(pan clatters)
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Gosh, I can't remember how long I normally bake these,
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but I had the oven preheated at 325.
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And let's see what I said, bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
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So while those are baking, I'm going to,
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you know, I told you they was gonna get a bath,
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so I'll show you what they gonna be bathing in.
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And I'm gonna go back to my cookbook
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and refer to measurements.
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All right, for our glaze,
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we've got three cups of confectioner's sugar,
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1/2 a cup.
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Where'd I put it?
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Oh.
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I put it over here in Michael's area.
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So I'm gonna add 1/2 a cup of concentrated lemonade.
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You know, the frozen little containers of lemonade?
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I'm using 1/2 a cup.
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Now, if we were making the orange blossoms,
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I would be doing orange juice.
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And I'm adding three tablespoons of melted butter.
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(bowl clatters)
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And I'm gonna need three tablespoons of water.
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(water splashing)
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So, it's all pretty easy.
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What I'd do with my?
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Oh, there it is.
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(water splashing)
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How you coming with your tuna fish?
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- [Michael] Good, it's almost a egg salad tuna fish.
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- All right, it's hard to fill up a-
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- [Eddie] Egg salad tuna fish.
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(Michael laughing)
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(spoon clinking)
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Paula, maybe you and Michael can reenact
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what's going on on your shirt after this episode?
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- Oh! (laughing)
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Listen, I was with the triplets this morning
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and you know how much they love ballerinas, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yes.
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- And I had some ballerina pillows made for their cribs
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for the two girls, not Linton.
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And
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I walked up to 'em and they said,
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"Ah, Guinea, ballerinas, ballerinas."
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Even Linton was saying, "Guinea, Guinea, ballerinas.
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Senor, senor." (laughing)
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Talking about the man.
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I said, "Well, that's Patrick Swayze, baby."
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Or is it Peepaw? (laughing)
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- [Michael] Hell of a resemblance.
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- And is this Guinea?
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Y'all, I loved, loved, loved, "Dirty Dancing."
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I swear to you, I have seen it,
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I know, at least a hundred times.
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Every time I see it on, I stop, sit down, and watch it.
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Because I just thought it was just wonderful.
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And
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(dishes clattering)
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so Teri, my friend that owns
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what, A Little Piece of Heaven?
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- [Eddie] A Little Bit of Heaven.
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- A Little Bit of Heaven, the bakery,
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you know, she did a show with me, a video with me.
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She was showing us how to make the cocoa bombs.
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Well she went up to the lodge
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where "Dirty Dancing" was actually filmed.
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And so while she was there,
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she bought me a "Dirty Dancing" t-shirt.
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And Teri, I have to tell ya,
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I don't know who loves it the most,
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my grandchildren or me. (chuckling)
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So every time I wear it, I'll think about you girl,
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and just cross my fingers that "Dirty Dancing"
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will come on for the 2000th time,
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'cause I will be watching it.
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All right, so I've got the timer set
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(whisk whumping)
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for 10 to 12 minutes,
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and I'm gonna run back over the measurements of this
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real quick like.
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It's three cups of confectioner's sugar,
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1/2 a cup of frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed,
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three tablespoons of melted butter,
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and three tablespoons of water.
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So when our lemon blossoms come out,
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we're gonna immediately dip 'em into their sugar bath.
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And
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(dishes clattering)
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I confess, in the recipe,
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I instruct everybody to dip 'em once,
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but I let 'em dry and I dip 'em twice.
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So I may have to make up more batter,
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but I just love the way it soaks up that
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frosting-like stuff. (chuckles)
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So, I'll see you in 10.
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(water splashing)
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Okay, so here we go, y'all.
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These made four dozen, and I just told Eddie,
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I said, "You know, it's been a while since I made 'em,
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and I really filled my little cups too full."
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So, it probably would make five dozen.
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You know, if I hadn't a been so eager to fill 'em so full.
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(pan clatters)
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All right, so I'm gonna bring 'em over here.
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(whisk tapping)
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And like I said, it's been a long time
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since I've made these,
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so I'm gonna see which is gonna be the best.
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To fork it, or tongue it.
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I think maybe fork it.
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And I'm definitely gonna have to make
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some more frosting up, Eddie,
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if I do 'em twice.
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You just won't believe how good these are.
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You know, I have to tell y'all this,
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to my knowledge,
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they used to make a box lemon cake mix
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and it was good.
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But then all of a sudden it changed
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and it was so artificial tasting.
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So y'all please don't think you can use a yellow cake mix.
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You know, it's-
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- [Eddie] A lemon cake mix?
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- What did I say?
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- [Eddie] A yellow.
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- Yeah, (laughing) a yellow.
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A lemon cake mix, I would not recommend that.
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I would stick with the yellow
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and the lemon or orange jello pudding. (chuckling)
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Look at that, look at that.
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Yum.
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So here we are friends, a double-dipped lemon blossom.
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So delicious, so easy to make,
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but look at the mess we made, Eddie.
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Look over there at our mess. (laughing)
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But you're not supposed to look at that,
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you're just supposed to look at this beautiful plate.
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And speaking of this plate,
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my best friend, Bubbles, Susan, Susan Green,
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and Phil, her husband, came over last weekend
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to bring Aunt Peggy here for her doctor's appointment.
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And Susan's mother is 94 years old.
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This beautiful crystal dish was given to her on her wedding.
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It was a wedding gift and she's 94.
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And Susan asked if I would like it.
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And I said, "Oh my gosh, yes."
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So,
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it's probably 75 years old, right Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yeah.
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I would assume she probably got married
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in her early twenties.
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- Yeah, well this means so much to me, this dish.
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I don't know how Susan parted with it,
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but she has probably got things like this out her ears
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because her mother never got rid of a thing.
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She was a little rat pack. (chuckling)
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So look how beautiful, Susan.
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Thank you, Bubbles.
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I wish I could send you one.
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And I just love my dish,
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it reminds me of my grandmother Paul's, that I treasure.
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It's much like this.
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Same shape, different little handle.
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But I hope y'all enjoy this.
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And in the cookbook, and maybe on the web,
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it's gonna come up orange blossoms.
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So just change it all out.
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And I did, (chuckles)
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I did double my glaze recipe
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'cause most folks probably wouldn't have 'em
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this coated, but I like it that way.
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- [Eddie] You're not gonna take a bite?
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- Huh?
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- [Eddie] You're not gonna take a bite?
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- You want me to take a bite?
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I've already eaten one, Eddie. (laughing)
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I'm gonna put these over here.
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I'm gonna eat so many of these things, y'all,
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it's gonna be sickening.
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And poor Michael's gonna have to sit there and watch me.
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You know, I gotta get my butt on a diet, too.
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I can't stand the thoughts of him getting skinny
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and me staying fat and fluffy. (laughing)
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Love and best dishes, y'all.
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And I will see y'all later.
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