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I am standing in for Paula this lovely day.
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Theresa roped me into doing this. (laughs)
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- I just- - And she is very grateful.
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- (chuckles) I sent her a recipe from my childhood.
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It was a dessert that...
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Or, yeah, I guess a dessert
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that my mother would make.
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Growing up, I would say our family house
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friends, relatives, everyone came
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for anything that we were having going on-
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- [Theresa] Eddie, tell 'em how many siblings you have.
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- There are nine of us,
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Let's put it this way, I'm towards, I'm number seven.
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And growing up, if a friend dropped me off,
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you know, after school,
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or you know, friends coming over
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and there would be maybe three or four cars
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in front of the house,
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and they'd be like, "Are you having a party?"
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"I think just more than one sibling showed up
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at the same time, that's it."
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So anyways, when I went home last year for Christmas,
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I was going through some of my mom's recipes
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and I started asking her, I said,
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"There was a dessert you made and it was called Lemon Lush."
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And I said, "I just remember," you know,
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as a kid, it was kind of more,
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I guess like on the side of the table
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that maybe, you know, the adults
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would probably go towards for food.
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It wasn't, you know, your typical cookie or brownie.
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And I, you know, ventured towards the Lemon Lush
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and I thought it was great.
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It has, you know, a nice crumbly base to it
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with chopped walnuts, which I think Paula will like.
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So anyways, we're gonna get started.
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This is, you know, just a couple of steps.
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We do have to bake the base.
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So, what you're gonna do is two sticks of butter
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and you're going to just use a pastry cutter
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and make it kind of crumbly.
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And that's still kind of hard, Theresa.
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- [Theresa] I think that's to help
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with the butter. - [Eddie] Yeah.
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- I mean, with the flour. - Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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- [Theresa] I've never truly understood
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why you have to keep your butter and your flour cold.
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Maybe there's somebody out there that know that secret
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and can comment on this video.
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- And I can honestly say, I have never made this.
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I've only had the pleasure of eating it.
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So if you're a lemon fan, I think you'll like it.
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Okay, so now that it's all into nice little pieces,
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the butter and the flour,
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that's two cups flour, one cup butter,
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we've got some chopped walnuts.
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- [Theresa] And there'll be a recipe for you.
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I'll link to a recipe, so if you're missing out.
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- [Eddie] And now, you're pretty much
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going to have to just use your hands, and-
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- [Theresa] I made Eddie wash them.
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before we started. (dish scraping)
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- She forced me to wash my hands. (laughs)
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- [Theresa] That's the last thing you gotta do with Eddie.
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- Okay, so I've got it all patted down into a 9 by 13.
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Kind of really wanna press it down,
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get all the butter and flour,
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walnuts all incorporated in there,
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and we're gonna go into a 350 oven
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for 20 to 25 minutes.
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Okay, we're back with step number two
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and we've got one eight ounce cream cheese block.
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Got a cup of powdered sugar,
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confection sugar as Paula calls, (laughs)
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and one cup Cool Whip.
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And so, we're going to start beating it up a little bit.
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(cream cheese squelching)
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Theresa got that very nicely softened.
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- [Theresa] I tried to, I was up early this morning.
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- All right, so I've got the cream cheese
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and the confection sugar incorporated pretty well.
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I'm going to add Cool Whip, one cup.
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All righty, we've got it all blended up.
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And while the crust is baking,
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we're going to just go on
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and stick this in the refrigerator for a little bit
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and we'll move on to step three.
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All right, step three, very simple.
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We're using some lemon jello
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and we're gonna blend it up just normal.
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Two 3.4 ounce boxes with three cups of milk.
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(bowl scraping and thunking)
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Look at that yellow. (chuckles)
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- [Theresa] Very pretty. (Eddie continues chuckling)
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- All right, and we're just gonna get this all blended up
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and again, put it in the refrigerator until crust is ready,
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and then we'll assemble all three pieces
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once the crust is cool.
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Okay, so all three pieces are now together.
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The crust is completely cool.
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After putting both of these in the refrigerator,
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we took 'em out, I re-whipped these a little bit
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just to smooth them out a little bit,
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and we're gonna add the cream cheese layer over the crust.
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All right, so we've got the cream cheese
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all spread out over the cookie base.
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And now, the lemon pudding,
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again, spread right up over.
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Okay, and then, the very last part
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with however much Cool Whip you want.
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I mean, if you wanna make your own just for the topping,
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I don't know that I would do it for the base,
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if you want to add your own, that's great.
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As you can see, that's not gonna be enough,
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so we move to the second one. (laughs)
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- [Theresa] Paula style.
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Eddie, you learned from the best. Your mama.
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- Well, you know what? - And I think your mama
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had a lot on top of it.
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- [Eddie] She did, yeah.
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That's what I was just saying. (Theresa murmuring)
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We need to add a nice, thick layer
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And like I said, I honestly have never made this
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and I don't really remember,
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I was not in the kitchen when she made most of this stuff,
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and I have no idea when she made all this stuff,
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but I'm from the generation. - Well, you shouldn't be.
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- Well, no, I mean I'm from the generation
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where you went out in the morning
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and you came home when it was dark
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and you knew it was time to eat.
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Everything was ready.
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So, we got a nice whipped cream topping to it.
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- [Theresa] What's the last but not least?
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- Okay, so the recipe,
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I don't remember her having coconut on top,
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so I'm just going to top it with the crushed walnuts,
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just a little bit on top.
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- [Theresa] But she does have in your recipe, Eddie,
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that you can add a half a cup of toasted coconut.
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But you know, some people don't like coconut.
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- Yeah. - And adding coconut
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with lemon, you know,
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that might be a different type of flavor (indistinct)
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- Yeah, I don't remember.
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I don't remember the coconut part,
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so we're not gonna do that. (laughs)
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Okay. So, there we go.
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It's ready to eat. No waiting.
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All righty. The moment of truth.
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Let's see how I did. (laughs)
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- [Theresa] Is it what you remember?
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- Well, you know what, I can smell it. It does smell.
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If you like- - Bring back memories?
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- If you like lemon, you will really like it.
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The walnut cookie base is just so good.
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It's nice and crisp and very good.
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I hope you enjoy it too. (chuckles)
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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