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In this week's episode of What's Cooking with Paula Deen, Paula shows how to make the perfect homemade lemonade with a couple of tricks that will leave everyone begging for more!
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welcome to what's cooking with Paula
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Deen spend a little time with Paula as
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she talks to her fans make some great
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dishes
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helps with cooking problems and she even
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gives some useful tips on how to make
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cooking easier and a whole lot more fun
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join us each week for what's cooking
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with Paula Deen if you have any
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questions or would like to talk to Paula
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please send an email to podcast at Paula
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Deen comm now let's join Paula and see
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what's cooking today so let me tell
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y'all something when our guests come in
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to the lady and sons
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they fall in love with our lemonade pure
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in love with it and we make our lemonade
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by hand
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we don't use any starters or anything so
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the lemons that I had to make our
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lemonade today they were a little on the
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hard side so if you find that you've got
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lemons like that all you have to do is
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put them in the microwave just for a few
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minutes and I don't know if that's long
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enough I may run them another minute or
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so no I may run them a quarter 15
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minutes maybe
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no not 15 minutes all right I've set it
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for 25 minutes young 25 seconds y'all
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you know what happens when you get older
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don't you your tongue gets all mixed up
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alright so I put it on 25 seconds you
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know I've got that but this is at an
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extra thirty seconds so that's what I've
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done and now I'm gonna see if they're
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warm enough yeah they're a little warmer
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and so they're definitely softer and
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that's gonna help me produce more juice
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than they would if I didn't put them
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through that process so like I said hard
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lemons that feel dry just pop them in
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there and another thing you want to do
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is just kind of roll them on the counter
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and start getting it squeezed up before
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you cut them what am i doing okay
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did you want me to move over there okay
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all right so I'm just gonna mash these
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up and get them to go in just like that
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oh this lemons warm so I'm getting a lot
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of juice out of yet because we're gonna
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need one cup of lemon juice and what
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makes our lemonade so good y'all is it
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sweet
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it is sweet I'll use almost I'll use
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almost two cups of sugar in a gallon of
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our sweet tea
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but in our lemonade I think I may use
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three cups of sugar seems like that's
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what I started out because it just
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requires more sugar then iced tea does
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all right so we'll start squeezing you
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know I found this that I don't think it
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you would call it an antique shop but I
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go to shops that where people have
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booths different booths so you get a
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variety of things that the collectors
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collect and I found this one day it is
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my favorite measuring cup
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my very favorite and you twit that on
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noon it becomes your juicer so that is
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great I don't have to use but one one
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utensil one one one cup so here we go
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you know a lot of people have juicers
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but I've never I've never had a juicer
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but so many people were were one of they
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call man smoothie in it
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doing those liquid things oh and be sure
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don't throw these away y'all put one or
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two in your sink and turn on your
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garbage disposal and that lemon Ryan
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will give it the freshest smell so this
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will get rid of a bad smelling pipe and
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my ain't Peggy I'll tell you what she
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does with him didn't when she gets
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through squeezing them she'll put him in
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the freezer until Christmas time and
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then she'll pull him out and she makes
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her her Christmas smell good stuff what
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am I trying to say Eddie potpourri yeah
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and you just leave your potpourri on the
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stove and when you're ready for that
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good smell just turn your stove on and
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you've got you a constant Christmas
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smell going on this one's juicy
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I can't drink orange juice anymore
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because it turns straight to sugar and
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you know I've got the type two that I
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have to kind of consider so I don't
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drink orange juice anymore but when I
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did I would when I squeeze my oranges I
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would save that top and put it in my
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juice and you can also buy orange juice
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now you can buy it with pulp or without
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so I always get the pulp and so I'm
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taking these it's a little bit of pulp
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that I got out of those lemons and I'm
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putting that in there too if you don't
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like pulp you can just leave them out
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but you can see this has sweats in it
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can you see this oh gosh they just don't
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make things like they used to but
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got slits oh that hose your seed and
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your pulp in alright so let's see where
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we are we're oh my gosh we're almost at
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a cup
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we're almost there I'm gonna pick up my
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softest lemon it's a tie so we don't
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have that one cup of lemon juice using
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one two three lemons that's pretty good
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when you're measuring liquids y'all and
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this little tip is for the new cooks
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coming into the kitchen when you're
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measuring liquids you always want to
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make sure that your measuring cup that
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you're not measuring it like this that
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you set your cup down on a surface and
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measure this away because doing this
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it'll it'll move on you and you're not
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getting an accurate measure so make sure
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you are reading your measurement on a
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stable surface okay so this other half
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is going to take us to that one cup of
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lemon juice and what makes lemonade so
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good y'all is you're gonna make a simple
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syrup for it so you know that that sugar
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is gonna gonna melt and dissolve because
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you don't want to be sitting there
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thinking you don't get a great taste of
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lemonade and it'd be nothing but grainy
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sips of sugar so we want to make sure
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and there's a little pulp in that one so
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you want to make sure that your sugar is
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completely dissolved all right we've got
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our one cup of sugar I don't I mean I
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one cup of lemon juice I don't know if
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y'all can read that or not but this is a
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two cup measuring cup all right so we're
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going to come over here and make our
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simple syrup we're going to put one cup
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of sugar - 1 cup of water and we're
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going to turn that on and let that get
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hot and let that melt in you know some
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restaurants you go in if they don't
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serve sweet tea a lot I'm out of the
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south don't serve sweet tea but they'll
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they will bring you a simple syrup to
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add to your tea
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because once drinks have gotten cold
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like iced tea and lemonade it's so hard
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it's so hard to get them sweet at the
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table so more than likely if you ask for
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sweet tea they'll bring you a simple
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syrup and that's what we're doing all
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right so I'm gonna I'm gonna slice us up
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some lemon I can find me the knife I'm
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looking for take this one so I'm just
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gonna oh yeah that's good so I'm just
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gonna cut some rings to float in our
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pitcher of lemonade because you know you
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always eat things with your eyes first
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and that lemon looks so pretty
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floating around in there okay I'll just
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take that little bitter juice out of
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that one too and I don't let us see
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goodbye but he's gone
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all righty you know I was on a show one
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time it's off the air now but as a
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little gift they gave me a set of spoons
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and that you know I love wooden spoons
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and look at this one see one that says
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Michael Jamie
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Bobby
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and Mama's oh there it is Paula I must
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been wearing glasses when they saw some
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of my pictures so which one has been
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used the most gosh I think Bobby's has
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so I need them I need to give the boys
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those spoons what feel no this was it's
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been in the last 10 years I want to
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remember the name of the show but like I
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said it's way been off there all right
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so this has come to a ball but I'm gonna
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steal I'm gonna cut the ow
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but I'm still gonna stir it because I
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eight hundred six five nine 3300 all
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right so our sugar is completely
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dissolved so now I'm gonna add my lemon
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juice and I'm gonna bring my lemon
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wheels over here with me so as far as
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the sweet sweetener goes for you you can
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you can use a sugar substitute if you
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feel like you shouldn't have the sugar a
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couple of seeds renegade seeds got in my
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drink but I got alright so I'm gonna
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give this a taste so good so good to me
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to me this does not need any more water
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in it but like I said I like my lemonade
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really sweet well I've got us some nice
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tall glasses here young and you know at
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the lady in sons well in all the fame
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Paula Dean's family kitchen Paula Dean's
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Creek house
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the lady in sons we always serve our tea
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and lemonade with a sprig of mint and in
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order to get the flavor of that mint
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y'all I noticed that a lot of people
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will just leave it on the side of their
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glass and it's gonna add no flavor at
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all because mint in order to extract
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that mint flavor it must be crushed and
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then the aroma just explodes
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so just crush that and drop it back in
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your tea or your lemonade whichever
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you're drinking and I've got some
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glasses ready ready to go I think I'm
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gonna add a little bit more ice now
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because this lemonade is warm this is
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gonna melt that ice very very quickly so
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here we go see how pretty that mint
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looks in there and we grow this mint if
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y'all have never tried to grow mint do
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yourself a favor and grow you some
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because it is like kudzu if you're for
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me we could zoo it will just take over
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your yard which is great for me because
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I don't have to worry about replanting
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it every season
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it's just naturally gonna come back and
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be beautiful just like I know it can be
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to give this a little color I'm gonna
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show you something else you can do
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that's so simple so easy so quick so
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this is just something real simple that
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your children would enjoy I know my
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grandsons
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when we take them out to dinner they
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love a Shirley Temple and a Shirley
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Temple requires a cherry so for the kids
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pleasure you can add a pretty red cherry
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for color so there you go Eddie you want
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to come in and enjoy a glass of lemonade
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with me come on now it doesn't have any
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gin in it like you like what but this
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will hold you till five o'clock won't it
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Cheers
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YUM see y'all later
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loving best dishes to all of you
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join us each week for what's cooking
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with Paula Deen spend a little time with
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Paula as she talks to her fans make some
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great dishes helps with cooking problems
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and she even gives some useful tips on
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how to make cooking easier and a whole
18:29
lot more fun if you have any questions
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or would like to talk to Paula please
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send an email to podcast at Paula Dean
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comm join Paula and see what's cookin
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