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- Y'all know how much I love hearing from y'all.
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I enjoy reading your notes and your recipes
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that you send me.
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I think it's so important that we not let go
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of those recipes that our mothers and grandmothers
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made for us,
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that we love so dearly.
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So it just thrills me, every time
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I get a note from somebody out there that says,
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this is what I've been making for years and it's so good.
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Well, what night was it?
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Saturday night, Michael was at work.
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I was here by myself,
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and I wanted something sweet so bad,
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and I didn't have anything sweet,
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which is unusual in this house.
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So, I went in the office and started going through the mail
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that I have gotten, from, my,
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for lack of a better word fans.
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I like to think of y'all is friends, myself.
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And these are,
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so I ran up on some mail,
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that, I got right before
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we packed up to move back in this house.
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So I just hadn't gotten around to making it,
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but I came up on, this note
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and, the recipe was melting moments cookies,
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melting moments cookies.
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I said that is for me.
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And I read the ingredients.
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I said, dad gum, this is so easy.
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So,
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Rosemary Brewington,
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I don't know, I think I ate six of these cookies.
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- [Eddie] I mean really the title describes it perfectly.
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I mean those things definitely just melt.
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- They melt in,
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- [Michael] And you do have a moment.
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- your mouth.
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And like I said,
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I think I ate six of them, Eddie.
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I was by myself.
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Nobody was here to count on 'em.
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(laughing)
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- [Eddie] Actually, I was kinda of surprised.
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I was like, just tell me, how many did she make
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cause there was only like three or four
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under the cake dome this morning.
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I don't know.
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- Well, Michael,
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if I put things out like that with glass
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and Michael Gruber can see it,
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and I can see it,
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it is not hidden too well from us.
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All right, but here's what she says,
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Paula, I am 65 years old and I have been cooking these
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since I was 12, mainly Southern cooking.
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And I have been cooking since I was 12,
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mainly Southern cooking.
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I have saved all of your recipes
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to cook something different.
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God bless you and your family,
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Rosemary Brewington Atlka, Tennessee.
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A-T-L-K-A, Atlka.
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Wouldn't that be pronounced Attica, Tennessee.
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So I receive this,
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the envelope is postmarked August, of 21.
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So, Rosemary actually sent me,
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three or four recipes.
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She sent me a recipe for prune cake.
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Now I used to have a prune cake and it was so good.
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Kind of like the fig cake.
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And she sent me a frozen cranberry salad recipe,
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and,
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she sent me a recipe for cashew pralines.
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It sounds awfully good.
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But the one that caught my eye
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was these melting moment cookies.
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Rosemary, your so stinking good.
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They don't make very many though.
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(laughing)
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They melted almost,
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before anybody could get any.
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So I want to share Rosemary Brewington's recipe
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for melting moments cookies.
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And when I tell you it's easier, so easy.
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The other night, when I went to make them,
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I couldn't believe I was out of corn starch,
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but I was,
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and so I started doing some research,
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to see what I could substitute corn starch with.
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Well, as it turns out, you can use just plain old flour,
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but if a recipe calls for two tablespoons of corn starch,
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then you, no,
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if the recipe calls for, yeah, two teaspoons of corn starch
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and you gotta substitute with flour
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you would put four teaspoons of flour,
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because, corn starch is,
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more potent, than regular flour.
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So I did and like I said,
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I certainly wouldn't throw them in the trashcan.
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I thought they were delicious.
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So, I'm really anxious now to,
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make a batch using a corn starch.
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Oh, and I've got something right here.
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Now Eddie, do we know who sent this?
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh oh, got some butter on that.
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Oh, Joey, that's not her name.
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Her name is Stephanie Morris from Henderson, Kentucky.
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She says, dear Paula,
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I've so enjoyed watching your YouTube videos
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every time you said, no butt shots Eddie.
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I cracked up and I thought that saying should be
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on a tea towel so I made you one.
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When I lean over to put something in the oven,
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I was so afraid Eddie was gonna take a butt shot,
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cause' it ain't putting no mower.
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So Stephanie, this is precious.
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This is precious.
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And I love an old flour sack tea towel so much.
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No butt shot Eddie.
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- [Eddie] She did, true of this one,
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hanging besides the stove in there.
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There's one more that she did.
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- And so she did that when Baking Day.
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- Yeah.
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- Oh, it's so cute.
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Bring it in here Teresa.
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It's hanging on the side of the oven.
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- Yeah, right there.
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- [Teresa] Oh, wow.
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Ain't that adorable.
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- [Teresa] That is adorable.
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Stephanie, I used to do, so today is Baking Day.
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How about that?
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- [Teresa] So Baking Day No Butt Shots Eddie.
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- And that's my motto for the day.
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(laughing)
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Stephanie, this is darling.
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I used to do things like this years ago,
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but, oh look, we've got something on it.
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We've been using it, Stephanie.
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All right.
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So let's move on to Rosemary's melt in your mouth cookies.
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So I've got, and did I say thank you, Stephanie.
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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
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I love them, y'all are so sweet out layer.
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All right, so I've got one cup of butter
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that's been softened,
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a fourth of a cup of corn starch.
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And let's see, I believe that's a corn starch, right Teresa?
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- [Teresa] Yes Ma'am.
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- And a third of a cup of powdered sugar.
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- [Teresa] would be the other small one.
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- The fourth, looks larger than the third, doesn't it?
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Oh well.
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- [Teresa] I promise you I measure.
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- This is the largest one.
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The third is the largest one.
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So I may have set it back.
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Okay, in goes the corn starch.
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In goes the powdered sugar.
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And, then Rosemary said to slowly add the flour.
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(mixer humming)
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The other night when I made 'em,
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Michael burned up my little hand mixer
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making twice baked potatoes for Christmas.
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Cause it was so many potatoes,
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cause we had to fix it for like 40 people.
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And, it was burned it right on up.
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- [Eddie] It used to be used, the egg mixer.
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- I know, I know, but,
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working with Michael, I don't know.
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I don't know if they've been so easy, to accomplish.
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All right, so I'm gon' add a couple of tablespoons
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of flour at the same time.
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So, Rosemary,
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I made them just by the recipe Saturday night,
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except for having to substitute the corn starch.
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But, I kept thinking, now these,
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the little drop, the little frosting that you put in.
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It's like a thumbprint cookie.
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Y'all you make your thumb print,
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then after they come out of the oven,
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you drop the frosting, in the center.
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And, I thought, oh my gosh,
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this would be so good with, maybe almond flavoring
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or an orange flavoring.
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So, I'm not gonna play around with the cookie
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because it's just wonderfully,
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melt in your mouth short made cookie.
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So, I'm not gon change that but I do think
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that I'm gon' play around with the frosting
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we gon' drop in the center.
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And so, I'm debating, orange,
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almond, coconut,
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I mean, anything that you got laboring for, you can use.
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I don't know if I even finished telling y'all a minute ago
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that my mixer was burned up by Michael.
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So I just mix this with, with my, by hand, with a fork.
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Cause your butter is so soft,
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that you can truly just stir it together.
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All right, so Rosemary said to,
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drop this by the teaspoon fulls,
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and that very first one, I didn't,
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that's not big enough to suit me.
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So did those look like the same size again?
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- [Eddie] Yeah.
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- So this is my powdered sugar, and,
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this is what I'm used to make, the frosting.
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But right now I'm gon' use it, to wet my cookies.
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Because if I didn't use flour
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or powdered sugar,
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it would all stick to my hands.
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So, to me, this is the best way to,
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get your indention done.
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See how good that works.
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There you go.
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And we gon cook those, in a 350 preheated degree oven.
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For I think like 10, I think she said like 10, yeah,
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10 to 12 minutes.
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And then she told me in the letter, she said,
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let 'em cool slightly, but Rosemary,
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I did not let them cool,
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because I tried, I put the frost in one oven
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and I thought it would spread out,
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but it didn't, it remained right there in the center.
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So, I just went ahead and frosted them all.
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Okay, now, since our cookies bake so quickly,
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I'm gon go ahead.
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Teresa is finishing up, putting them out on the tray
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and I'm gonna go ahead and make up our frosting
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because as soon as I take those cookies out of the oven,
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I want to be able to start loading them.
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All right, I don't think that's quite a cup.
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Like I missed a little bit.
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There you go.
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So, here's the decision we've got to make.
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Eddie, we've also got a lemon flavoring up there,
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and this is orange.
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Oh, and it smells so good.
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Did you smell? - [Eddie] Yes.
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- It smells, it's so citrusy smelling.
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And of course almond, who doesn't love almond?
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I love all my almond.
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So, I was thinking-
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- [Eddie] You have, peppermint one too.
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- Peppermint is for Christmas, so I think.
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I don't like peppermint, too much.
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- Alright nick calls for three ounces,
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of cream cheese, and course,
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I've been cutting off an eighth ounce.
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Blocks of-
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Doesn't that look about three ounces right there?
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Looks like it to me.
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Hey, go ahead and just use it all.
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Cause I don't like to be short on the frosty.
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Okay.
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So, the recipe for the icing is three ounces
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of cream cheese, one cup of powdered sugar
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and one teaspoon of vanilla.
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So, I'm gonna get this mixed up right here.
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So, since I can't make up my mind
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and y'all are not offering a lot of hay up.
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Oh, oh gosh, that's flung everywhere.
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Oh, since you two ain't offering any advice.
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I think I'm gonna separate this in half
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and do half orange and half almond.
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What y'all think about that?
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- [Eddie] Yeah. - [Teresa] Most definitely.
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- Yeah, yeah I got a respondence.
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So, I'm gonna put,
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a little almond in that one.
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And just that little bit of flavoring, moistens it up.
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Yum.
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- [Teresa] Let's see how the orange one turns out.
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- Admirable.
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Yes, so now we're gonna try the orange.
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I just, the orange just sounds like
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it could be real refreshing.
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I wish I'd thought of,
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made a little zest.
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That's good, It's,
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and another one that would have been good y'all is lemon.
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So, while we're waiting on our cookies to bake,
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I'm gonna take this orange,
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and I'm gonna wash it,
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and I'm gonna zest it.
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Rosemary.
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Now, I don't know what happened girl,
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but, those that I made Saturday night,
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they stayed up,
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and,
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the little indention stayed down on em.
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But these didn't.
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So you know what I'm thinking?
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I'm thinking, that I might go back to the way
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I did 'em Saturday night, just substituting
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an little extra flour in place of the corn starch.
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Cause my indention is gone.
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And I was just afraid I was gon' to ruin 'em.
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So, I made them about that size the other night.
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And like I said, when I pulled them out of the oven,
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they all had my thumb indention.
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There was still one left when he came here wanting it.
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So this is the orange.
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And, - [Teresa] Smells so good.
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- Then the orange smell delicious.
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So,
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did a little,
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zest.
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I can't remember what I paid that was.
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- [Eddie] Jest.
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- Jest.
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- Like in Jest, like you say something in jest.
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And see, you think that this frosting would melt,
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but it doesn't.
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- [Teresa] Yeah, even on the flat cookie.
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- I know.
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So, I can't believe it Rosemary.
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So, I will make these again.
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And,
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so, I don't know what I did wrong.
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I think with you telling me,
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that to make an indention in the cookies
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that you would tell me that
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because they would come out of the oven,
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with an indention.
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So,
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we shall see.
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It can't hurt the taste of them at all.
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They smell so good.
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So, if you wanna make these,
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and you don't have any corn starch,
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and it calls for a third of a cup,
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a fourth of a cup of corn starch,
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you would use a half a cup of extra flour.
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So, it's like the corn starch, didn't,
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thicken up and out.
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So, they still good,
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but I'm gon try making them again.
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The flavor of these cookies are so good
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and Rosemary, they did perfectly, Saturday night for me.
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And I just increased the flour,
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because I didn't have any corn starch,
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which flour is substitute.
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I mean, you can't even get them off.
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So I said, there's not many things,
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that you can't fix, in the kitchen.
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Look I have buttery.
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So I took,
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the cookies that I had made.
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And like I said, it,
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you couldn't even get it up with a, spatular.
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So I just changed this cookie into a-
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- [Eddie] A cake pop. - Cake pop.
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That's right.
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Don't try to trick us girls.
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We can get it done,
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but I'm certainly gon make these again, Rosemary.
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And,
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I think I'm gon hold off the corn starch
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and just increase my flour.
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Just like I did,
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cause they turned out perfect.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, you can get them off the plate,
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off the cookie sheet with a spatular.
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But when you go to pick them up they're so-
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- Yeah, they crumble.
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So I'll show y'all what I'm talking about,
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they're so thin,
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and look at my hands, if this is truly a buttery cookie.
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And you just mash your mouth together and it's gone.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, yeah. - So,
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- [Eddie] It's a good treat.
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- So Eddie, since your hands are not all messed up,
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I would like for you to try an orange cake pop.
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- [Eddie] Cake pop?
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Butter pop?
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It's good.
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- It is good, yeah.
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I have to say, you can fix almost anything,
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but, you can't fix scorched.
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If you have scorched something,
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you can put that in the trash,
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because I don't of, a way in the world to fix that.
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So that's my story, morning glory for the day.
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Thank you, Rosemary.
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And I'll, oh my gosh.
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I love my tea towels.
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Love, love.
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