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- I got the sweetest email
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from a young lady named Stephanie Long,
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and she said, "I would love to ask Paula Deen a question
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about a recipe that I've seen
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where people have sent her recipes
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and she makes them on a show,
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and I have one for her.
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I wanna share with her something
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that my grandmother used to make for me
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when I was a little girl,
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and my grandmother used to make homemade buttermilk biscuits
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and chocolate gravy, but my grandmother passed away
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and I no longer have her recipe for chocolate gravy.
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So I was wondering if Ms. Paula knew
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how to make chocolate gravy.
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And I know my grandmother used to use
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Hershey's cocoa powder,"
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so I am gonna make chocolate gravy this morning,
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and she sent me her grandmother's biscuit recipe,
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which sounds wonderful.
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And I think we need to post her grandmother's recipe
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at the end of this tape.
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So I've got the biscuits ready,
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I've brushed them with butter,
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and we're going to put these in the oven
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and we're gonna make our chocolate gravy
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while these are baking.
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Here we go, Stephanie. It's really, really easy.
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And this recipe goes back, the first time I did it
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was over four years ago now
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when I started quarantine cooking,
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when we were all made to stay in our house
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and not go anywhere, I started quarantine cooking,
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hopefully to just fill the long days
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with something positive for folks.
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So here we go. It's easy.
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You'll have no trouble doing it.
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I have melted a third of a stick of butter, Stephanie.
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All right, now I'm gonna add my sugar,
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and let's see, how much sugar was that?
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- I'm gonna add. - It's two thirds of a cup.
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- [Paula] Two thirds of a cup of sugar,
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and that looks like about two teaspoons of flour,
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which is gonna give us our thickness.
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So we just wanna incorporate that, Stephanie,
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and I would recommend using a whisk,
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because you don't want lumpy chocolate gravy, do you?
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I'm sure your grandma's wasn't lumpy.
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All right, now I'm gonna add my cocoa
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and I wanna make sure I give you the right measurements.
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That was two teaspoons of flour and the cocoa.
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- It's a third of a cup. - Third of a cup.
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That's what I thought.
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Okay, so in goes our chocolate cocoa.
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I wanna make sure the last thing you want to happen,
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Stephanie, is to scorch this,
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so I've turned the heat down some,
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'cause you know, you can fix a lot of things in the kitchen,
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but the only way to fix scorched anything
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is by putting it in the trash and starting over again.
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All right, so I've got a cup of milk
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and I'm gonna slowly- - It's actually two cups.
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Oh, it is two cups. I've got it, thank you, Theresa.
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I got the two cup measure here,
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and we're gonna slowly incorporate that using our whisk,
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making sure that we don't scorch it.
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And I sure do hope that this tastes
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like your grandma used to make it for you,
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but I found that I'll crave a taste
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that I knew from years ago,
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and when I finally reconnect with it,
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I think the memories are better than the actual thing.
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That's kind of the way I felt about my peanut butter balls.
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And I went to a little country school in Baconton, Georgia,
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right outside of Albany,
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and it was truly a little country school, and on Fridays,
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they served us peanut butter balls for dessert.
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Well, I want y'all to know, when I was in my 30s,
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I met the daughter of the woman
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that was a cook in the cafeteria.
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And she said, "Oh, Paula, yes, I'll give you that recipe."
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I said, well, it was just always,
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it was soup, toast, and peanut butter balls,
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and I swear I would run over somebody's back
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and get that peanut butter ball.
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Oh, and I loved them so much
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that I served them at Jamie and Brook's wedding reception
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with a chocolate fountain, just crazy delicious.
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But so I finally got the recipe that my Aunt Trina
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and I, she went to school there as well,
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wanted to know how they made them, and it's so simple.
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And so I made it and I said, "Well, that's it,"
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but that memory of eating that as a kid,
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it was nothing like those memories.
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So I hope this memory is very, very satisfying
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So I've got this on low,
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and I will eventually ease up the heat a little bit
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while we're waiting on our biscuits to cook.
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I did this in a very, very slow process,
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and I don't know how thick your grandmother
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used to make her chocolate gravy,
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so my recommendation, two teaspoons of flour,
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is not very much, so I keep this product on hand.
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It's a quick mixing flour, and it's all purpose,
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and you can sprinkle it right on top of the gravy
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that you're making and it won't lump, it'll blend right in.
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So I did sprinkle a little bit of this quick mixing flour
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to mine because I just wanted it a little bit thicker.
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And now I'm gonna do something now
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that I hadn't done before.
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Well, I think Eddie looked back in that video,
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the quarantine cooking video, and I said,
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"Well, I think I'm gonna add some vanilla to it,"
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so I did, but this time,
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I'm going to do something a wee bit different.
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I'm gonna add a half a teaspoon of almond flavoring
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because I love almond and chocolate together,
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and then I'm gonna add a half a teaspoon
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of vanilla flavoring.
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So you can try those, Stephanie.
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You may like it. You may not.
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This might be on this side of sinful, y'all.
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How good does that look?
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- [Theresa] You had me at biscuit.
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- Stephanie, I wish you were here, girl.
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I adore the almond flavoring in it, Stephanie,
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but it's certainly optional.
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And I wanna thank you, girl,
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for sharing these great memories with you
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and all of our friends out there.
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So now, you know you can make the chocolate gravy,
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hopefully very close to what your grandma did.
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So love and best dishes to all of y'all out there,
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Start it with chocolate gravy biscuits.
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So Stephanie, I'm guilty of changing my own recipes,
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so I showed you how I added vanilla extract
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and almond extract to it.
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So I'm gonna cover my biscuit with the chocolate,
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and then I'm gonna take it one step further
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by adding some chopped pecans to the top
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because I'm a nut lover,
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which works out real bad, real good
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because I'm surrounded by a bunch of nuts
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and me being the head nut.
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- That looks good. - Uh huh, if you like nuts,
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this is the way I would serve it.
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I would serve it in a custard dish
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with plenty of gravy and nuts.
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- [Theresa] I like Eddie's idea
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of putting the chocolates sauces over pound cake too.
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- You could put that on anything, Theresa,
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and it would be delicious, I promise.
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The nuts just take it to another level, Stephanie,
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so try that too, baby.
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Thank God for grandmas!
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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