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- Hey, y'all. I'm Jamie Deen.
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Guess what? It's tea time.
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Hmm, welcome to Mom's kitchen.
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I'm making tea today.
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Let me tell y'all what, when we grew up,
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we had sweet tea for breakfast every morning,
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Look, I'm gonna boil one cup of water
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and I got our lime juice in here.
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I'm gonna bring this to a boil while I'm talking.
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And we're gonna melt our sugar in there.
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So we would always go through a gallon jug of milk.
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Mom would wash that out and that's where we kept our tea.
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A gallon of sweet tea was always in our kitchen growing up.
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Made the local dentist happy.
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So tea, tea, tea, tea, tea.
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We drank so much tea growing up and I got to college,
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I was still drinking tea and I was working at Jeff's too.
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Hey, boss, if you're watching.
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And I'd gotten so hot and I drank two glasses of sweet tea,
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I'll never forget, as fast as I could.
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And that was the last day that I had sweet tea.
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I was just too hot and it backed up on me
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So now, I cut it with a little bit of lemonade
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or a little bit of unsweetened tea.
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And we're gonna make this the way that Mama used to.
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We're gonna melt our sugar water down first.
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Although, remember, this has got lime juice in it.
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Lime and Diet Coke is one of my really,
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truly flavors that I love.
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So we're gonna incorporate our lime juice,
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right here in the beginning, with our sugar water.
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And I've got another pot here
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that we're gonna brew our tea in.
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We're just using regular tea that Mom had here at the house.
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I'm gonna be putting three bags in there.
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So while this is boiling,
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we want all this sugar to melt in here.
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And now, here's what you gotta do.
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You gotta be a little patient.
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Once I get all this sugar melted in here,
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we're gonna stop now and we're gonna wait
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and let this cool completely before we finish our other tea.
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We want this flavor to really marry up together
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and be as strong as it can be
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to give us a really sweet lime flavor for this.
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So it's a pretty simple recipe,
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but it's one I've never had before.
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Lime tea, sounds good to me.
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Y'all stick around, when we come back from the break,
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we'll find out together.
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All right, let's go and take these out.
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Now, look, you can make this a giant recipe
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or you can make it a small recipe.
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We've made it a small recipe here.
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So if you wanted to, I think the recipe
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that you'll find online called for five tea bags.
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So we've kind of cut down on this.
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I'm gonna pour our tea in here.
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Just our straight tea.
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Fresh-brewed, delish.
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And now, we're coming back to our simple syrup.
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It's got our sugar and our lime in it.
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And we're gonna add this.
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We've cooled this down. (syrup trickling)
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Oh, my gosh, look at this huge mess I just made.
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At least, it won't be sticky.
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We just made a short pitcher.
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(spoon clinking) It's a good thing too.
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Look at the size of the mess I made
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just making these few cups of tea.
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All right, let's give it a taste.
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Oh, Mom, you're just in time. I'm making lime tea.
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- Something a little different for y'all,
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as you're sitting around this spring and summertime,
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and you want something fresh to drink.
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Is it sweet or unsweetened?
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- It's sweet and it's made with lime juice.
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- You don't look quite camera-ready, so cheers to you.
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(Jamie and crew laughing) - [Paula] (laughs) I'm not.
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- [Paula] I'm up next.
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It's a good thin y'all tuned in early.
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Mom will be around the corner later.
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This is a delicious tea right here, y'all, ooh.
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- [Paula] Mm-hmm, I bet it is.
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- Put fresh lime in it, Mama, and it's delicious.
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- Or vodka. - It really is.
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Y'all should try it. Mama just said vodka.
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It's time for us to stop.
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I'm Jamie Deen, thanks for tuning in.
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See y'all around the kitchen. Hmm.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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