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- Hey guys, once again, it's Joseph.
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I'm filling in for Miss Paula
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while she spends some time with her family,
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and an honor to be with you guys again.
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If you would like to follow me,
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please visit my YouTube page, which is finally up.
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It's called Elevated Comfort.
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And on there, of course, we'll showcase
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all of the amazing, wonderful, elevated comfort dishes
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that I enjoy preparing.
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And it's just gonna be an amazing time.
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And so please be sure to like and subscribe on my page.
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It would be an honor to have you join me
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on those culinary adventures.
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And so, but today we are going to be making a wonderful,
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this is actually Elevated Comfort, my brand,
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A not nice way of saying it,
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I call it bougie tea. (chuckles)
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It's very, very foo-foo in the sense
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that it's not just ordinary sweet tea.
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And this is just taking beautiful tea
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that you would enjoy in the south
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and then elevating it with a little bit
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of different ingredients
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to make it extra special,
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especially for, like, a dinner party
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or doing something in the summer.
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I think it's just a great thing to add to your table.
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And so what we're doing now is we have some water boiling,
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and we're going to take two teabags each.
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We're going to take two teabags of Lemon Zinger tea,
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and then two other teabags of whatever fruit tea you enjoy.
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This, I think it's a berry tea.
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You can use cherry, you can use peach,
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you can use raspberry.
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You can use anything that you want.
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But make sure you have the lemon and also the fruit tea,
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and we're just gonna add that in
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and we're gonna allow this to steep.
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At the same time in this,
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we're actually going to add in our sugar too as well,
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just because we want the sugar to dissolve.
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And so I'm going to start with a cup and a half of sugar.
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I like sweet tea. (laughs)
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So it's up to you guys how much sugar you want.
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It doesn't have to be a lot, but I like it pretty sweet.
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My brother, when we were little,
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he used to be in charge of making sweet tea,
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but he would put, like, almost,
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it looked like a whole bag of sugar.
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And you would see in the bottom of the pitcher,
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like, this thick layer of syrup
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just from all the sugar that he put in it.
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And so anyway, I have fond memories of that.
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But right now, we're just gonna allow this
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to steep from the next maybe five, maybe 10 minutes
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if you want it extra strong.
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And then I will come back
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and I'll show you guys how to put it together.
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Okay guys, so now that our tea has steeped
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and our sugar has dissolved,
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we're going to just remove the teabags
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from our liquid and split this over here.
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Let's see. Let's move that.
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And then what we're going to do now
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is we're going to mix everything together.
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And this is the bougie part or the fancy part.
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(laughs) We're going to take some apple cider.
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We're just gonna pour that in the bottom of our pitcher.
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And I kind of like equal parts, apple juice
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or cider to tea and to water,
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equal ratios of that.
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And then what we're going to do now
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is we're gonna add just a little bit
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of filtered water to this.
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And then now what we're going to do
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is I'm going to add in
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our wonderful brewed tea.
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Okay. And see it changes colors.
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That's what makes it bougie. (laughs)
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And now what we're going to do
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is we're going to add in a little bit of flavor enhancer.
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So we're gonna add in some fresh mint,
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and we're also going to add in a couple of lemon slices.
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Ooh, that mint smells good.
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But I'm also going to add in some fresh lemon juice
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just to add in another level of depth of flavor.
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Put that in, mix it a little bit.
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And voila, you've got yourself some delicious tea
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But this is a signature tea.
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Okay, and we're just gonna try a little bit.
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Mm, it smells so good.
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All of the measurements are on the recipe.
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You can find it on the website.
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It's refreshing. It's so, so good.
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I think you guys are going to enjoy it.
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Again, you could also add, if you wanted to garnish it,
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put a little bit of lemon on that
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and just makes it extra bougie.
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So anyway, love you guys.
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It's such an honor to be here with you.
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and look at some of the other amazing videos
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that we've done recently,
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and love and best dishes to all of you guys.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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