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- Y'all, I am just walking the heck out
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of memory lane today.
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Oh, oh, this is getting too hot.
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Too hot, too hot, too hot.
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Let me add a little vegetable oil,
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and I'm going to pop that off of that heat for a minute.
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You know, our hoecakes probably really put
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the Lady and Sons on the map.
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Everybody loved those hoecakes,
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Now my mama used to make lace hoecakes.
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And at the restaurant,
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we used self-rising meal and flour.
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So they would puff up.
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Well, I'm going to make lace hoecakes today,
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but I'm adding a real country southern twist to it.
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We're going to be making okra hoecakes.
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Now I want to show you since we're making lace hoecakes,
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you know that cornbread's going to be thin.
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So if you cut your okra too thick,
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it's not going to get done.
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So I'm cutting these almost like paper thin,
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like stuff inside okras like glue.
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So I'm cutting them very, very thin.
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(knife lightly thumping)
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Now if you were making the ones
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that we served at the restaurant, at the Lady and Sons,
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you don't have to cut them quite that thin,
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because those at the restaurant, they puffed up.
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All right, so let's see.
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But to me, this is really poor man's cornbread.
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Because all it is plain meal
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and water and a little salt.
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And you want your batter
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(spoon lightly thumping)
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And I don't like yellow corn meal, y'all.
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But the grocery stores, apparently, don't get used
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very much even down south.
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But you have to go to a grocery store
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that really caters to back in the day things, you know.
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But I do see that's way too thick.
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It's thin, thin, thin, thin.
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And you can judge by the spoon.
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If you go down deep like that, that would be.
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And after your batter sits for a while,
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(spoon lightly tapping)
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it will get a little thicker.
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I'm going to use a ladle,
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because I can control it better.
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Oh, I forgot to put the okra in.
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We're just going to have lace cakes.
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So good with that okra in it.
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And you know, some people say,
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I don't like okra because it's slimy.
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Well, I can't disagree.
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It is and it's almost like glue.
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In fact, we could probably use okra stuff on projects.
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(Paula laughing) You know.
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Okay, let's try this again.
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I just don't like this kind of corn meal,
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You can see why they call it lace cornbread,
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because you can see the edges.
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I think I'm going to have to go on the hunt
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for some good corn meal.
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When I used to make these when the boys were growing up,
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oh my gosh, I didn't think we were ever
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going to be able to sit down and eat.
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Because every time I'd get one made,
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the boys would come by and grab it up.
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Oh, that's pretty though.
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Even though I don't like that corn meal.
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Can you see it, Eddie? - Yeah.
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- And it takes a long time.
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The thinner it is, the longer it takes to cook them.
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And that sounds crazy,
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because I tried when I first opened The Lady
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I tried to serve lace hoecakes,
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and oh my gosh, that day people ran it and raved over them.
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But it just took too long.
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Just took too long for me to get them produced.
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But they kept asking,
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when are you going to do some more lace?
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'Cause I would never get y'all fed.
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Now mama, she cooked a lot of lace hoecakes.
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And mama cooked them in the hoecake pan.
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She didn't make them individual like this.
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All right, I'm going to say that might be done.
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And you keep having to add
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a little vegetable all at the time,
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because they have to have something to fry in.
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And you can see how much thicker this has gotten
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But I can come through here,
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how much water I put in the pan.
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These are a lot of trouble, y'all,
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but you could start cooking them earlier in the day.
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And if you have an air fryer,
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heat them up in the air fryer,
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and they'll get right back crisp
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like you just had them.
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It's really a labor of love.
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And it was worth it to watch my boys
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Can't have a lace hoecake without a little butter, can we?
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- [Participant] Of course not.
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- Look at that, look at that.
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I wish y'all were here.
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Yep, that's what I'm going to do.
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I'm going to cook, cook, cook,
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put them in the air fryer when I get ready to serve dinner.
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And they going to be so good y'all.
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(spatula rattling) (Paula laughing)
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Thanks for walking down memory lane.
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One day soon, I'll make some self-rising hoecakes with okra.
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And I think you'll find that to work for you a lot better.
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But this is definitely a technique.
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And the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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Loving best dishes, y'all.
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