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{SPEAKER name="Minnie Pearl Brown"}
You hear me? I got a good whooping about that, and I won't never forget it. [[laugh]]
{Hostess speaker}
Yea, never, never forget that one. [[laughter]]

[00:21:27]
Ok, Ms. Brown. Tell us a little bit about how you make your peanuts. Now, people have really been asking about those boiled peanuts over there.

{SPEAKER name="Minnie Pearl Brown"}
Oooo.

{Hostess speaker}
The canned boiled peanuts.

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{SPEAKER name="Minnie Pearl Brown"}
Well, that's a you still--you get you some water, and put your peanuts on the st-- Now, this is the way I do mine at home. but I never can none of them jars like she do yonder. But I just go, I got a wash pot and I just go put shove em by the pit, get me two cups of table salt, and about three gallons of water and pour em in there and that be a fine oak wood. And I boil them about an hour and they done.

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{Speaker 1} [[crosstalk]]
You have to wash them though, like five or six times. Ahh.

{SPEAKER name="Minnie Pearl Brown"}
But you have to wash em. Yea, you wash em. And get the sand off of em.
Because the good ones are gold in the ground. [[laugh]]

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{Hostess speaker}
Then, then everyone was asking me, what do you do with those peanuts after you boil em?

{SPEAKER name="Minnie Pearl Brown"}
Well we just bag em and dump them in the freezer. So we sit around watching TV, cold nights, too cold to do anything, we just get em out the bag, we shell them, tell lies, tell jokes, have fun. [[laugh]]

{Hostess speaker}
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And eat those peanuts, but you take them out of the shells. But people were asking me, you have to take the out the shell. And how--

{SPEAKER name="Minnie Pearl Brown"}
[[crosstalk]]
Eat peanuts, yea. [[laugh]]

Yea, you have to take them out the shell. But I had a brother, he was so greedy and loved them so well, he just eat em whole and all.
[[laugh]]

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{Hostess speaker}
Alright, another favorite one people was asking about was the mayhaw jelly. Now what are those mayhaws and how did you make that mayhaw jelly.

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{Speaker 1}
Ah, well that's in, uh, Southern Georgia and Alabama, southern part. and Mississippi, the southern part. Where they have the lime and it's in the swamp, they call swamp apples. That's the original part. And then they're only grown in May, so it's may-haw. M-a-y-h-a-w.

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And, uh, it, haw, it means a sweet water. The Indians used to call that. And you have to, they grow in trees about six feet high, thorny, you can't climb them. So you have to get down there and, uh, shake em. And the way we do, we ta--there's four of us that go out there, or five.

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And each one has a sheet and we put it around the tree and we shake that tree and the haws fall in that sheet. Or else if you didn't, you'd have to have a sifter and go out there and just, uh, shift them out the water.