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I want to share with y'all an email that
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I got from a viewer it was so sweet I
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get a lot of mail and this email came
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from a young woman named Becky her
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grandmother lived in Northeast Florida
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for over 40 years she said every Sunday
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we'd wake up to the smell of her making
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her special breakfast homemade biscuits
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and milk gravy it was heaven she says
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and I can't tell you what I wouldn't
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give for just one more Sunday with my
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bomba we're gonna see if we can help her
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with some biscuits maybe you wanna come
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listen it's so sweet so often we lose
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those recipes so I'm gonna see if I
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can't help you thank you very much well
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so let's start by making the biscuit
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okay now we have some flour little sugar
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baking powder baking soda and buttermilk
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okay of course the thing that makes it
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so good and that's the shortening so
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let's measure out three cups of
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all-purpose flour into our Bowl I warned
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you I'm gonna get cut listen I bet
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you're a better cook than you you know I
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cook in our family I'm very yes now
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we're gonna add two tablespoons of sugar
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okay now we need two and a half
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teaspoons of baking powder now because
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we're using buttermilk we're gonna add
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some soda to our biscuits a half a
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teaspoon of baking soda all right now
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the last thing we're gonna add is that I
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have a teaspoon of salt okay so if
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you'll take your fork man just fluff all
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your ingredients together right
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we've got a half a cup of solid
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shortening here put that into your that
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does not healthy there we go when you're
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eating up this you don't care do anybody
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really care this look like I'm doing it
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looks like you're doing it correctly
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and maybe back tomorrow we'll have it
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cutting it so you just keep cutting girl
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and I'll start pointing your buttermilk
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for you and you can just work that
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buttermilk into your dry ingredients
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good and you can see that your dough is
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really really wet now if you want to
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wash your hands off just help yourself
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we're gonna move our Bowl on over here
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knead this dough just a few times okay
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we don't want to overwork it though
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because that'll make our biscuits tough
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am i doing it correctly yes you're doing
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it correctly all right that looks great
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so we wound up using a cup of buttermilk
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all right so I'm just gonna put that
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down just like that now we're gonna take
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our rolling pin we're gonna dust it with
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flour and then we're just gonna gently
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roll out our biscuit dough okay
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man do that yes you may there you go I
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would stop right there if I were you cuz
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I like thicker business I did tell all
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right now here's your flour and here are
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your biscuit cutters so just dip your
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biscuit cutter down in there okay and
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press it down into your duck
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these are great looking biscuits girl
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so I'll spray the pan for you and you
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just lay those biscuits out the way you
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so now I'm just gonna push down the
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middle of these because the last thing
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that we're gonna do better girl I don't
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think you need any directions on that do
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you know I like a lot of butter is that
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okay that no that's not of course it's
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okay girl all right our biscuits are
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ready to go in the oven and hopefully
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these are gonna live up to Becky's
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memory of her bombas biscuits so we're
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gonna bake these now put those in the
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oven for 50 and we'll probably bake them
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for about 14 minutes this is my
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grandmother this is Bom Bom her name was
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clear moxley Bandung hmm and that's my
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favorite picture for I think she was 16
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at the time in Kentucky she was gorgeous
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just pressed well let's just prop that
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right there so she can watch us make our
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milk gravy and watch us make this milk
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gravy so this is the bacon grease this
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is the bacon grease now we're gonna put
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1/4 of a cup so it's quite a bit a bacon
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grease Co sidious child now we're gonna
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add 1/4 of a cup of flour it smell like
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you smell that makes us so good to me
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now pecan sisters a white gravy alright
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we're not gonna worry about browning it
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at all if I'm gonna eat a white gravy I
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want it to kind of be white all right
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open that meal honey and pour some milk
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in it's about a cup and a half there we
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I'm gonna change over to our yes alright
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you want to whisk those lumps yep
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and you want to work with it pretty
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quickly as you hear all right so a
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little bit more milk I think a little
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bit more milk not too too much of a
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all right now I'm good I like for my
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gravy to come to a good rolling bowl you
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know so that the flour taste will cook
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out so this will get thicker and thicker
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you know as it cooks does that look like
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the color you remember it does all right
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now see the way that's just cooking
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really boiling I'm gonna turn that down
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a little bit Becky okay all right now
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let's add our salt and pepper
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siliceous makes me want to crop dust and
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you know the secret Becky is that bacon
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grease oh I would have never thought
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about doing that never ever like the
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butter get too far away from you butter
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I mean his good girl all right let's see
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if my biscuits are ready Oh Becky looks
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so good we did good girl we have so good
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just gonna split that biscuit I can't
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I'm not gonna crown to you and I'm not
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gonna cry either oh it's perfect
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Becky I hope that you go home and get in
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the kitchen on the weekends and make
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these biscuits and gravy and think of
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all the times that you spent feeling
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safe and secure with your Baba
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absolutely you've got wonderful memories
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absolutely nobody can ever take away
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from you Lee as long as you're breathing
