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- Oh, you know, I was talking earlier about once in a while
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and it's gonna happen.
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It's gonna happen to everybody.
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You get a text message
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or a email from someone that said they tried this recipe
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and it tasted wonderful,
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but it just did not work out for me.
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So, I said I was gonna make them
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and see if I had the same problem
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and this, this notice from Ashley Smith, God love her.
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She said, Paula, I tried this three different times.
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(laughs)I appreciate your patience, Ashley,
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'cause I might would've given up at that point.
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But I remember I formulated this recipe, gosh,
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I can't remember, it's been so many years ago.
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But I know it's a kind of sensitive recipe,
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because you're working with marshmallows and sweet potatoes,
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which are not the most firm vegetable you can get.
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And so I noticed that the recipe
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on the web is a little different from the one in the Bible.
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The one on this,
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on the web calls for two tablespoons of orange juice
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and it calls for one tablespoon of orange juice
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in the cookbook.
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So, you know, sometimes we just have to make a judgment call
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because the testers testing my recipes could have thought,
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"Hmm, I might need to do this."
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So anyway, I would leave out the orange juice altogether,
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because that's gonna give your potato liquid.
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And you want these as firm as you can get 'em.
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The recipe calls, to make eight balls,
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I think you use four, kind of small sweet potatoes.
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So you see how soft and liquidy those are.
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And like I said, I remember it being an issue
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when I cooked them years ago.
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So I thought for the orange juice,
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I'm just gonna put a little orange extract.
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And this is good, good, good.
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This is good, good stuff.
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I'm going to use like a half a teaspoon
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just to replace that orange flavor.
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And I hope all this helps you, Ashley.
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I wish these potatoes were a little bit stiffer.
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Now I'm gonna add the white sugar, the brown sugar,
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and that wonderful orange zest.
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Oh, that smells so good.
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Is this from our tree or?
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Smells delicious.
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All right.
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So the sugars are going to bring out the moisture
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in the sweet potatoes, too.
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So, here's what I'm kind of thinking,
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to make this easier for you.
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I'm thinking, see how much wetter they have gotten.
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And that's just with the pure sugar bringing
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out the moisture.
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So that's, that's gonna be kind of hard.
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So this is what I'm thinking.
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The orange extract is perfect.
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It's perfect in there.
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- [Woman 1] How much orange extract?
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- Half a teaspoon.
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So here's what I'm thinking, y'all.
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To make life easier
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and hopefully not change the flavor of the recipe,
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I'm gonna add some flour to those sweet potatoes
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and we'll see how it reacts to that.
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(bowls clanking)
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I don't want it to change the flavor,
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because they are so, so good.
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But look, you can see the liquid gathering around the edges.
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So let's just see what this will do.
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That was probably, maybe, two tablespoons, you think?
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Okay, it's getting a little firmer.
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And I'm gonna add another tablespoon.
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And you know what might help?
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Because I wanna, I wanna get this perfect for y'all,
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'cause it's so good.
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I think I even served them on the buffet I think
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at Thanksgiving when we were in our first location downtown.
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But it's, it's been a while.
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So I think it might help too, Ashley,
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to put this in the refrigerator and let it get cold.
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And you know what, I'm gonna go ahead
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and this will be one tablespoon of flour
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for each potato that we used.
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Yeah.
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And I think if we chill this,
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it would be easier to work with.
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So I just hope that flour doesn't.
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(spoon banging)
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I can't tell.
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I can't taste the flour.
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So I'm gonna put this in the refrigerator
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and get it nice and cold.
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And while I'm doing that.
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This refrigerator is so full!
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Junk, junk, junk, junk. (laughs)
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And while that's getting cold, I'm gonna go ahead
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and mix up our coconut
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with cinnamon and nutmeg,
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because we gonna roll our balls in this.
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It's gonna give it another little kick.
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Okay, Ashley. (laughs)
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Let's see if we can figure out these sweet potato balls.
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I did put these in the refrigerator
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and got 'em nice and cold.
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So, we wanna make like a two or three inch ball,
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and I'm gonna sit that on some of our coconut,
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and form our sweet potatoes around that.
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I know that you do have
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to be careful when you're baking these Ashley,
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because the sweet potato will burst (laughs)
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if the marshmallow gets overcooked. (laughs)
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All right, Ashley, I hope this has helped you, honey,
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watching me do this.
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And hopefully they will turn out and won't be flattened.
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So just a review.
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I decided to try one tablespoon of flour
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for each sweet potato that we used.
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And I added a tablespoon of flour to our coconut
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and nutmeg mixture.
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And you just wanna make sure,
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you know, I did my coconut out
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and then I set my ball on top of that coconut.
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Giving it a base, something to hold onto.
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So the important thing now is bakin' 'em.
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You know, you don't wanna over bake 'em,
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because if you do that marshmallow's gonna swell
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and it's gonna burst open.
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Although I'm not opposed to that.
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I'm not opposed to a marshmallow running out of it.
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But I would prefer that it kind of stay
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as a surprise, you know, in there.
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And the other thing, I removed the orange juice
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and I replaced it with a half a teaspoon of extract,
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because we didn't need any more liquid
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in those sweet potatoes,
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because the sugars brought out the moisture,
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making 'em even softer.
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So, you would just have to keep an eye on these, stay close
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to your oven, and before they start bursting, take 'em out.
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But the recipe calls for 15 to 20 minutes,
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but it's like a chicken breast.
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I don't know how big your breast is that you're cooking.
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I don't know how big your ball's going to be
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when you get it rolled out.
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Those different hand sizes come up
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with all different, you know, sizes.
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So like I said, I hope this works
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and I hope that it's helped you, Ashley.
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Okay, Ashley.
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Here's our balls.
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(plates sliding)
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(silverware clanging)
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And they look very, very good.
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Look at that.
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Do you see the marshmallow beginning to melt?
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So I didn't cook 'em as long as the recipe calls for.
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Okay, this one's fixing to go.
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Look, look at it.
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All right.
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(plate sliding)
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See that marshmallow.
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Ain't that pretty? (laughs)
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And like I said, I'm not, I don't panic if it burst.
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You know, you just have to work with things
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until you get a real feel for it.
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- [Woman 1] I'm glad she told us though,
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so that we could correct this one,
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'cause it definitely needed some correcting.
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- I am so glad you did Ashley,
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because, you know, I can't fix something
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if I don't know about it.
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You know, so I never get upset with people that say,
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so and so needs looking at, you know, at the restaurants.
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Because like I said, if I don't know, I can't fix it.
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So I hope that that helped.
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It's really got a lot of orange flavor.
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You might wanna bring back, bring down that orange extract
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to a fourth of a teaspoon, because it's nice and strong.
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But delicious and I just love the way they look.
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I wish I had a pretty plate.
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(paper rustling)
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But you know, people will have no idea
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what you've prepared for them until they bite into it.
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Until they cut into it.
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So thank you, Ashley.
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So try one more time, girl, before you give up
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and do whatever you need to do to it.
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You know, whether it be add more sugar, add less sugar.
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Make sure you got plenty of coconut, you know,
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to really give it a coating.
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So, I wanna hear from you.
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I wanna see if this helped any and if you had better luck.
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So thank you, darling.
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Love and best dishes to all of y'all out there.
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And I'll see y'all tomorrow.
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