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today is one of my favorite things to do
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and that's to share with all of y'all
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some of the letters and requests I get
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you know I ask people to send me a
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recipe that they would like to share
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with everybody and there's a good chance
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that I will make it on the show and
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share that recipe with everybody so I'm
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going through my mail and I've got a
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stack here and I just have to tell you I
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love each and every one of them and this
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email I got gosh it's from April the
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15th so I've had it a while and it is
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from dawn from Massachusetts and she
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said Paula I have been watching your
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quarantine recipes on YouTube thank you
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for doing this have have one question a
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friend and I came across a recipe for
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water high from the depression have you
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ever heard of it or made it sounds weird
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how can water hush and actually make a
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filling let me know what you think what
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Don I had never heard of a water pie
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thank goodness I wasn't alive during the
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Depression and my grandmother's are gone
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so I couldn't couldn't go to them for
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the information but Eddie went on the
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computer and started checking it out and
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you're correct it is called a water pan
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it's depression-era water pie a
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deep-dish pie crust I'm sure they didn't
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go to the store back in the depression
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and buy frozen pie crusts and probably
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hadn't even been invented so they would
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have been making their own crust and a
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cup and a half of water flour sugar salt
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vanilla extract and butter so dawn I am
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gonna be making a water pie on one of
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the shows so thank you for enlightening
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me about this when you saw the name
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water pie you might have thought it was
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cooked in a water bath and that was my
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first thought it's just crazy it's just
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put the final flourish is a few Pat's of
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butter which gives the pie a
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straightforward sweet and buttery flavor
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and that's what it looked like that we
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found on the way up water pie
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I think women in that era in that time
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were so ingenious and I know I felt that
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way about my grandmother's that had
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lived through all that you know they may
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do with what they had
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and I really admire and respect them all
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this letter is from a lady a fella
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sylvania n-- margaret federal and um she
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said I know I don't know if you're still
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accepting recipes for your viewers but
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here's mine I made it for my family even
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and she has made it for company and it's
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always a hit and she said a little back
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story my mother was a fantastic cook but
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she wasn't too big on desserts nor did
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she had the time there were four of us
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kids and my dad always worked two or
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three jobs until he started his own
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business and even then we rarely saw him
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it's deceptively delicious and you can
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it's called sherry nutmeg cake so thank
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I think we're neighbors I think you live
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out here on Wilmington Island don't you
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girl so this is unbelievably easy to
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make and all right let's see I love it
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when recipes are connected to family
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stories and this recipe came to mine
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this evening as I watched your video of
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Jamie's chicken salad I so appreciated
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hearing the story of how it all happened
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for you and your business your story is
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so encouraging Paula you should write a
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book truly well Margaret I did I wrote a
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book and the name of it is it ain't all
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about the cooking so hopefully there's a
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second chapter to that book like it's
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stealing all about the cooking all right
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I've got one more ear to share with
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y'all and I tell you want this letter
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just touched me to the core
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dear Paula my name is Patrick and I live
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in Southwest Florida I'm a registered
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nurse and worked from home full-time
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although I am NOT on the frontline I
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work with many people that have been
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tragically affected by the Kovach 19
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virus I commend you for following a
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I swear if not for your YouTube pointing
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cooking I would not make it through the
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day I feel like all the stresses of the
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day go away when I see you cooking again
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and can hear your infectious laugh and
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giggle I know you get a ton of requests
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but I wanted I would be so honored
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humbled and grateful if you could
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demonstrate how to make a good southern
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custard pie I love them Patrick says I
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have tried to make them but they never
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seem to work for me keep up the awesome
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videos we are here we here we are here
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surely Patrick I can't read you running
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on to keep up the awesome videos we
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something here surely do appreciate them
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loving best dishes and he says PS I'm
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always wanted to say that well loving
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best dishes to you - Patrick oh yes I am
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gonna I'm gonna make you a custard pie
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and I think this water pie that I was
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just talking about I would bet it it's
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very much like an egg custard pie so you
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know it may be that the depression-era
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water pie might be just the thing you're
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looking for but you keep watching honey
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cuz you're gonna have a pie
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I feel a paw in your future let me hear
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from y'all if you want to share a recipe
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or talk about a recipe you know where to
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find me I'm right here waiting on y'all
