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You know, we're saluting all those
folks that went through the hard times

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We're lifting up depression cooking because them
folks did it all. What are we talking about

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Classic chicken and dumplings. The best
classic food and comfort food there's ever been

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I'm talking about classic comfort food, chicken and dumplings. Really, my dad said it was more like a depression meal
because there really wasn't a whole lot of chicken in there, but they could put a whole lot of dumplings in there

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Make a big pot of that, it would feed the whole
family. And hey, it's still a classic today

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It's something that I really think is probably one of the most
traditional comfort foods that ever survived at the Dust Bowl

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To really bring out the most flavor in this dish, I
think you need to get you some of them chicken thighs

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Yeah. Now, you can find them with the skin on them, or you can find
them with the skin on them. or you can find them with the skin off

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Now, I probably, if I'm going to boil these, and that's what we're going to do, we need
to skin these chickens right quick, and you can see that comes off there pretty quick

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Now, also, look here, this is a bone. Now, I'm going to
tell you right now, we're going to leave that bone in there

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because we're going to cook that down too. It's going to bring
out more flavor. Well, as you can see, the water is boiling

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Now, some of them are already going to say, I can hear
you out there, Why didn't you just leave that skin on them

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You got more flavor. Well, sometimes you can
do that. Hey, it don't make me no difference

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But so just to please, y'all, I'm going to put one of them in there with it, okay? So you want
to make sure you have enough water in there and get it to boiling that everybody gets covered

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So that's what you call a lot of
chicken for chicken and dumplings

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We're going to cook this probably
10 to 15 minutes at a bowl

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It might not take quite that long, but you just want it to where it is. fork
tender and will shred easy. Well, you can see the sun has made it up over the barn

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because I can feel it hit me here on the side
of the temple I can, but it is a beautiful

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morning here in camp and let's talk about dumplings.
Now, three cups of flour is where we're going

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to start. We're going to add three tablespoons of
sugar, which is exactly that amount. Some baking

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powder, which is real close. Be sure you check the
date on that because it can expire and not be good

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We have what you call a boiling action over
here. Some salt, which is about that much

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Let's go ahead and mix that really well. And
I want you to form a whale there in the middle

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for this here cackleberry to set.
So go ahead and crack him in there

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and you'll see him laying in there oh
so pretty. Yes, he is doing his job

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It is. Get you a whisk, and I just need
you to do it. to whisk him lightly

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See, there is no need in ruining another, I'm
not saying ruin, but make another dish dirty

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So you can whisk that egg right here in the middle. I
once seen an old man on a ranch where I stay in one time

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Set a 50 pound sack of flier there beside him and make
two biscuits in it with eggs and milk and buttermilk

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and you never know he was in there until he
got through. So to that, I need you to head

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and we need to measure this folks about a cup of buttermilk
cup and a fourth so we're going to start with a cup

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we're going to pour it right there where that egg was
white vinegar if you can get the lid off how much exactly

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one capful right there in the middle it goes everything has found its home
so now i need you to gently fold till we can get it all mixed in here

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And this is going to make really a pretty shaggy dough,
but I know we have made one mistake already, Shann, we have

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Folks, we were supposed to have cut the butter into
this before we put the liquid, but it will still work

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So we're going to have to change this
method up. up a little be right back rewind

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now when you do that folks and you got the
flyer the sugar and everything in there

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before you add the egg or the buttermilk
go ahead and cut the butter in now

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we just need to go back to working in here
to where we can get this in a ball-like form

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It don't take long for this to come into shape. So when you get this
all made, you can see when we pull that apart there, it's pretty wet

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You don't want this too dry, but we're going
to keep working it to make sure that all that

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butter is incorporated in their whale. You just need to,
I'd say need this 15 or 20 times, not 15 or 20 minutes

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I'm going to cover it with this bread helmet. and we're
going to check the chicken and see if it is tender

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Well, folks, we're going to bring one of them thighs
out there and put him over here on this cutting board

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just to see, because I know that
breast will be done before he is

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I can tell you for sure right now,
folks, do not think that, hey

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we're going to discard that broth because we need to be saving
some of that. You can go ahead and take them skins out of there

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If you got them laying in here loose,
look out, pups, look out, look out

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Look out. Got a lot of help in the kitchen.
Scoot, scoot just a little bit, mage

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Scoot, scoot, scoot, just a little
bit, a little bit more. There you go

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We need to pour that back over here because we're gonna
reserve about six cups of that broth to start out with

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But you can see, I took me some carrots
and with a handy dandy hash knife

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done chopped them up. Now my
dad told me in the dust bowl

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chicken and dumplings didn't have this portion.
No vegetable. It never did have celery or carrots

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because it was hard to grow one when the
dirt been blowing for like five years

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and there wasn't no water out there. So most of the time it was just
chicken. But I do remember him telling the story that his mother made what

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Jack Rabbit and dumplings. Because, folks,
when you run out of chickens at that hen house

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when you're going over there all the time, and then next thing you
know they ain't one, next thing come along going to be Jack Rabbit

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Six cup of cream. And Shan said,
oh, what? Six cups of cream

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Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, hey. The chicken thief is here. But
folks, my dad and them said they just used cow milk back then

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They just go out there and you know you pull
that stool up under the 19, let me see, 31 model

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And it's, you know, you don't milk at the front end,
you milk at the back end, pull a stool up in there

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And then you just turn the knob where the faucets
come on, right? No, you got to do this method

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Then they would strain that cream off there when things was looking pretty
generous and they would have cream and milk combined in the chicken and dumplings

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So we got six cups of cream in there. and we're going to go ahead and
just hey let's go for it let's put a whole stick of butter in there

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i think you got to have it now i want you to put
this on medium heat because that cream can scorch

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if you've got that flame just blazing licking around
the side walls there so six cup of chicken broth

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so there one two let go ahead and let get them carrots and that celery in there because folks we need that to be able to go ahead
and cook and get tender We going to give it a little original seasoning because we going to need a little bit of that salt in there

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So give it a little sprinkling of that I mean you can just go ahead and just warm
that up and have it for breakfast right there. That's probably be good for you

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Now we're going to get back to shredding this chicken So you can do it with your
hands. You see when you cook that chicken right. It's not too dry because when it you

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You boil it too long, it'll get so dry and tough that
you can't pull it apart. You have done, had yours

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You stole what was going to be shared with
the other puppies. So, no, I don't think so

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So go ahead, get your chicken. You can chop it,
shred it, tear it, whatever you want to do to it

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No, no. Get down. You're not starving.
Since we have some loyal subjects up here

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Sadie has not been in timeout any
today. Let's give a hand to Sade

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What you think? We have no idea where
Duker is. And Duker, if you didn't know

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you rewind and watch a video that come out the week
before this one. On the Tequitos, Duker got in a skunk

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There you go, Big. You done had
some. That's the maji. Nope, quit

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And we're going to go ahead and see if we can
get this monstrosity of chicken meat in there

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Remember what I told you? Why look for chicken and
chicken and dumplings when you know it's going to be there

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Two chicken breast and four thighs? Folks, I'm talking we
fit and have a whole bunch of goodness right here in camp

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Y'all didn't get the invitation, did you? Well,
I wish you had it because we'd sure feed you

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Make sure you don't leave nobody out. We need all the
flavor we can get. We're going to slide him back over here

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And a lot of you might be asking that question, and why
wouldn't you do that in all them Dutch ovens you've got

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Well, folks, I don't like to boil a
milk-based substance in a Dutch oven

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because it can really scorch easy in there because that cast
iron gets quite a bit harder than this little thin-walled pot

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and it keeps that heat. So it'll scorch in there and
it'll burn and ain't nothing worse than a burnt bean

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unless it's burnt milk. We're going to
keep eye on it, stir it occasionally

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and probably going to cook it probably pretty close to
about 15 minutes. We want that celery and them carrots

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to get good and tender, but that chicken to spread that love all the way
throughout. And then we're going to go to dropping them dumplings in there

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Home run time. So let's get
our biscuit dough back out here

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You can see, hey, everything is just right. Now, you can use
a rolling pin, or you can just flatten it with your hands

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whatever you choose to do. Me, I'm just
going to use the major method today

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You want to walk on it, Major? Huh?
You look bad. your mustache is

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whose looks the best I think mine
might look better than yours

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Mage I don't know when we're pulling off a
piece it's going to sort of be about like that

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and this thing is going to plump up a little
as what we're going to call a dumpling

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I would say that's probably a half
inch thick and maybe like I don't know

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tablespoon size you can form them into a
ball I've seen people make them every way

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my dad when they said going through the dust bowl when they would have
some dumplings, a lot of times they'd be red in color some of them

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You know why? Because all that dirt
drifted in that flour sack settled

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You could sift it, but you still ain't going to get all that out of it. Now, for
our Patreon folks there, we have done a whole deal about really the conditions

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in which the country that I cooked in and what
the old timers went through just to get through it

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So be sure and check that out It a great story It about the Dust Bowl and the integrity that them people
had And I guarantee you if they had this dish today they be thinking I make it another five years

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Biscuit dumplings. Look at them right
there. You can smell that butter in there

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And folks, you got that there where it's
just simmering along, bubbling right up

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Shan said, you think you can get all them in there? I said, I don't
know. We're going to get it until we can't get the lid on it no more

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Because one thing that I always remembered when I
used to make chicken and dumplings a lot of time

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You had a lot of broth, but you always run out of
chicken and you always run out of drumplins. Dumplins

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So don't just dump them in there. I need you to
scatter them out that way they don't clean together

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And then about every 10th or 11th one,
let's go ahead and give it a stir

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Then we're going to put a lid on there. We're
going to let them simmer about five minutes

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Then we're going to thicken it with some cornstarch and water and then what we're going do
we're going to eat it uh-huh i mean it's going to be good so let's do the dumpling dive-in

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what you say I tip my hat

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To all them old-timers that I
ever knew, to all them folks

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And you might have had some of them too that went through that depression and that
dust bowl and times as lean food was scary hey y'all give me grit you did and

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i appreciate each one of you but folks have you seen
this creation i mean have you seen the size of them

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dumplings thank you jesus i mean thank you so
much the memories that come flooding back through

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there from all the times my mother would fix this
dish on a Sunday after church in a winter time

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summertime spring time you can't go wrong it's
what we call the right time it's the dumpling time

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who I'd be loving me some dumplings made you you
seen me right there at the end make some cornstarch

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cold water poured in there make sure it is boiling
or simmering before you do and thicken it now

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because folks I like for that broth to
be thicker than that heavy cream was

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Well, we hope y'all enjoyed because I
can't really enjoy it, as you can tell

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It is an old classic, a recipe that has been through the test
of time that will always get you through the thick and thin

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And folks, that's pretty cheap eating right there it is. You can
go to that gross store and come out ahead on this kind of deal

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We appreciate you, we do. But as always, and it is with honor
and great pride that I tip my hat to all the servicemen and women

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and all the veterans who have kept that flag flying
back to our over camp and to the rest of y'all

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Remember last week I told you y'all was
family. We mean that because you are

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one and I'll see you about the best chicken
and dumping trail you ever seen in your life

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Look at this mustache and you look at mine.
You know mine looks better than yours. You know

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how it does. Look at the camera. Folks will tell
you uh-huh. Don't be grumpy. Don't be grumpy