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- Spring and summer here in Savannah is coming full blast
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And there's a couple of things that we like to do
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when the weather turn starts turning warm
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and we've got a rocking chair
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and we've got a porch to sit on, we love to sit and rock
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and have our lemonade.
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And for those that wanna make it an adult beverage,
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can very easily add, You'd add vodka, wouldn't you, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] I do either.
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So this is a great pitcher of a delicious lemonade
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to have in your refrigerator.
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And caution, it's very, very sweet.
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So this is actually a vanilla lemonade,
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so we're gonna start, oh gosh,
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does that ever smell good.
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Between this, the mint and the lime?
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All right, so what we wanna do is,
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I'm cutting that in half
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so I can have better control over it y'all.
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But what we're doing is splitting
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our bean down the center, just like that.
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I'm just working to get it open
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And then I'm gonna take my knife
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and I'm gonna scrape down that vanilla bean.
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That's where the flavor comes from, y'all.
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So that is going in our pot
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because we have a lot of sugar that we've gotta melt.
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Alright, so it calls for one vanilla bean.
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That goes in the pot.
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Alright, now we've got one quart of water
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and we are gonna put in,
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we've got measuring cups, two cups and two cups.
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So I'm putting the one cup in to cook
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our sugar and our vanilla.
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We're gonna add our sugar
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and all those flavors are gonna come together.
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And we have three cups y'all
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of fresh squeeze lemon juice.
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And I highly, highly, highly recommend
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that you use fresh lemon juice.
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It just makes all the difference in the world, y'all.
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That artificial stuff
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that you buy in the grocery store.
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To me it just tastes artificial.
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I was planning on juicing that
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with my Uncle Bob's electric juicer
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and it works like a charm.
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But Theresa says she did that all by hand.
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Three cups of lemon juice
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- [Theresa] And it's about four pounds of lemons.
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- Four pounds of lemons.
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Way to go. Girl. She must have been bored last night.
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- [Theresa] I was watching you,.
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Well, you got your muscles going, don't you?
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So we're gonna let this cook for about two minutes.
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I've added my two cups of water to the pitcher
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and now I'm adding my three cups of lemon juice.
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And when our sugar and vanilla cools off,
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I'm gonna be adding that.
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We're gonna be ready to have Kool-Aid.
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I mean not Kool-Aid, lemonade.
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The best lemonade in town
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with a little vanilla kick.
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It's ready to marry the two together now.
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I removed our vanilla beans.
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Wow, and to make a truly good lemonade, y'all,
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It requires much more sugar
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than if you were making a pitcher of iced tea.
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You can see the tiny specs of vanilla.
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How pretty is that? How pretty is that?
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Put that lime down in there
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where it can soak up a little lime juice.
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It's time for me to go find the rocking chair, Eddie.
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Yes, love and best drinks y'all.
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