Orange Blossoms

Now, Bobby, let's get started on something sweet, son

This probably doesn't have any medicinal value at all, but people love these little things

What are we making? We're making orange blossoms. Oh, yeah. We are going to start with a yellow cake mix

We're going to add a small package of vanilla pudding, and that's going to make our little blossom so moist, son

All right. And we're going to add 3 fourths a cup of water. and three-fourths a cup of oil

What kind of oil is that? Vegetable. And if you would... How many eggs

Faux. So I will start. And if you would, Bobby, break our eggs into this

We want to make sure that each egg is okay. All right

You have chickens. Yes. So you have the fresh eggs as you can get

Yes, and let me tell you something. No roosters in my yard, y'all

All hens? No roosters are allowed to our house. You know what I learned

I know. You know what I learned? Is that you don have to refrigerate those eggs No Like if you have fresh eggs straight from the chicken that there a natural coating on it that keeps them from having to be refrigerated Right I can leave my eggs out on my counter for up to 30 days And so my eggs are always ready for cakes and pies I know where I

going to start getting my eggs from. That's right, honey. About half, right? About a tablespoon

and you do want these all the same size so they'll cook at the same time

When you were a little boy and you were sick, what do you remember

You used to do potato soup, and I loved it. That's what I made for you and Jamie all the time

And the beef vegetable was one of my favorites. You used to do oyster stew that I loved so much. Yes

That I think was just heavy cream, butter, and oysters, if I remember correctly

Right? Is that basically what I want? That's when my genes were coming from the Husky Department

Milk. Milk. I used mainly milk. We could not afford heavy cream in those days, Bobby

So this looks pretty good. All right, and I'm just trying to make sure they're all kind of easy

Fill them in. Yeah So we got our oven on 350 y about 10 or 12 minutes So in the oven it goes well why don you get those orange blossoms out of the oven son

And I'm going to make a glaze that we're going to dip in them, y'all. And this glaze is so simple

I'm going to use three cups. Ooh, watch out, it's hot. Of powdered sugar

Son, you can just pop them out onto this rack. And if you've got some that's ornery, you can just take that knife and run around there

All right, here we go. Moment of truth. Okay. Let's see if the muffins are ornery

Uh-oh. You got some ornery. It's hot. Isn't that burning you? Let's pull this out of the oven

I know it, but my hands are pretty tough. All right, now to make our glaze, y'all, I'm going to use half a cup of thawed orange juice concentrate

three tablespoons of water, three tablespoons of melted butter, and our glaze is just that simple

Now, I like to double dip mine, y'all. So imagine that one too Surprise That makes them doubly delicious Doubly delicious

By using the orange juice concentrate, y'all, it makes it real, real tart

You know what would be good, too, that you could do? Would be to zest you some fresh orange right on top

You absolutely could garnish them that way. All right, so that's the second pass for these

Yummy. When little Matthew comes in, he'll say, Gigi, Gigi, Gigi, because he can't say guinea

And he knows that I have got him something good to eat

You know what else he can't say? He can't say Uncle Bobby. No, that's kind of a mouthful for him yet

I'm Uggaby. Uggaby. Uggaby. Oh, how cute. No aggaby. That's generally how he starts it, because I'm doing something aggravating

Now, see how pretty those are? Beautiful. Now, if that don't make you happy... Absolutely

You can't get happy. No. So, Bobby, I hope that all of our friends out there certainly enjoyed the recipes that we did today

If they don't make you feel better physically, they'll make you feel better mentally