

Flour & Butter
Season 2 Episode 5 | 24m 36sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Carrie goes to Ohio to see where flour is made, while also trying her hand at a new sport.
Carrie and Amy head to Ohio to see how raw wheat is milled into the flour they use in biscuits. Amy introduces Carrie to the sport of curling. Back in Charleston, Ashley and Annalyel make two very different cakes for a staff baby shower.
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Flour & Butter
Season 2 Episode 5 | 24m 36sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Carrie and Amy head to Ohio to see how raw wheat is milled into the flour they use in biscuits. Amy introduces Carrie to the sport of curling. Back in Charleston, Ashley and Annalyel make two very different cakes for a staff baby shower.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship<Carrie> Have you ever been to Toledo?
<Amy> Oh my goodness, it's snowing!
<Carrie> Amy and I thought it might be good for us to go visit our flour plant.
We're feeding their 300 plus workers.
I feel like this oven is not even on.
<Amy> Somebody needs to go outside.
It's 6:30.
<Carrie> Amy likes to take me on wild adventures.
<Carrie & Tyler> You get it...Sweep!
Sweep!
Sweep!
<Carrie> Now I'm excited to get back and go celebrate Tarah for her baby shower.
<Ashley> One of Mommy's co workers is having a baby like Mommy.
<Tarah> I have no doubt today will be full of rainbows and sunshines and probably some unexpected surprises.
<Annalyle> Oh, Ashley.
♪ <Carrie> I took my mom's best recipe and started selling handmade Southern biscuits.
Now I'm balancing a family, a business and biscuits every day.
Thank you so much.
I'm Carrie Morey.
And this is How I Roll.
♪ ♪ Did you see that request from Christie to have a 10 o'clock call today?
<Amy> Hey pal.
<Carrie> Oh, I love your dress.
<Amy> Oh, thanks.
We got a little role reversal.
What's going on?
<Carrie> I just - <Amy> Usually I'm in the hoodie.
<Carrie> I'm representing the RBG...today.
Feeling like...you know, girl power.
<Amy> You're in lounge mode?
<Carrie> I'm in lounge mode.
Amy, I'm so nervous about this Toledo trip <Amy> Why?
and Butter, who notoriously can't even start in 50 degree weather.
(engine stutters to start) ♪ <Carrie> It has become increasingly more difficult to get flour.
So Amy and I thought it might be good for us to go visit our flour plant and butter them up with some biscuits and hopefully secure some... some extra pallets of flour.
<Amy> Who are we feeding?
<Carrie> We're feeding all of the workers that make our flour.
<Amy> All the people that work in the factory.
<Carrie> Yeah!
It's 370 people on Wednesday that we're feeding.
We're gonna have to make all the biscuits on site.
I'm going to have them prep everything.
We need like a warm electric blanket for Butter.
<Amy> This is what you should be worried about.
It's going to be like 10 below.
We have a food truck.
We're making hot biscuits.
The truck is cool, but it is outside in January in Toledo, Ohio.
♪ <Michael> Carrie.
Hey, it's Michael.
I just wanted to let you know we're out here.
Butter's loaded up.
They're finishing all the touches right now.
They're getting ready to get on the road.
They're guess -timating probably 12 to 15 hours depending on weather.
<Carrie> Okay.
Sounds good.
Thank you so much.
♪ <Michael> Here are your keys.
We'll see you up there, man.
<Employee> See you there.
<Amy> Do you know that I've never been to Ohio so?
<Carrie> Well, we drove I'm excited to Ohio that one time when we were going to Michigan State when it was snowing.
Remember that?
<Amy> No, that was 30 years ago and we were in college.
So no, I do not remember that.
I was Googling a few things of fun things to do.
<Carrie> What's fun to do in Toledo?
<Amy> Okay, so here's our options.
We can go on an ice fishing trip, <Carrie> Let's hear it.
or, <Carrie> We're not going to Alaska.
<Amy> No, they have ice fishing on the lake.
It's on a lake if you didn't know.
<Carrie> Oh my God, I'm like getting cold just thinking about it.
<Amy> And then also, Brrr.
I thought we could go for a curling lesson.
<Carrie> Hair curling?
<Amy> Uh, no, Olympic sport curling.
<Carrie> Are you kidding?
<Amy> No.
>> On Ice?
<Amy> I think it would be so fun.
Have you done it before?
<Carrie> I can't even ice skate.
<Amy> I can't either.
<Carrie> Can you ice skate?
<Amy> but you don't wear skates.
This is your wear shoes on the ice.
<Carrie> Oh!
<Amy> Yeah, and you must come with your hair curled.
<Carrie> I'm going to curl my hair.
<Amy> Or wear curlers for curling.
(laughs) <Carrie> Okay, Laverne.
I'm going to get to work on trying to figure out how to get Butter an electric blanket, and you can book the curling.
♪ <Carrie> Look at this, and we got snow!
<Amy> Oh my goodness.
It's snowing.
<Carrie> It's freezing.
<Carrie> We are here to learn about our flour and the family that makes our flour.
♪ <Blake> I am Blake Lemley, ♪ plant manager at Mennel Milling in Fostoria, Ohio.
and I am a food science expert.
>>We're glad to have you here.
<Carrie>We're so excited to be here.
This is our laboratory.
This right here is a diagram of a kernel of wheat, and this section here is the endosperm, and that is what we are extracting through the milling process.
Currently in a day, in 24 hours, we're producing 2.8 million pounds of flour.
♪ The thing that we get the most is everyone is intrigued with the man lift.
<Carrie> Are we gonna do that?
<Blake> And they were very intrigued with the man lift.
♪ <Carrie> Oh my God.
Ah!
♪ ♪ <Carrie> Oh!
I'm so nervous.
How do I get off?
♪ (Carrie sighs in relief) <Blake> <Amy> Carrie and I are in total awe of this operation.
It makes us feel like such small potatoes when we walk into a plant this big.
Holy smokes!
<Carrie> Oh my gosh.
<Blake> First step we have is we're receiving the grain.
<Carrie> So that's how it starts.
<Blake> That's how it starts.
We're going to condition that grain.
That means whether, blending, cleaning, prepping it for the milling process.
<Carrie> Do I put it back in?
Ha!
<Carrie> <Blake> <Carrie> And it comes back up.
<Blake> <Blake> As soon as we hit the milling process, that's where we're going to do, the grinding, and the separation.
<Blake> <Blake> <Blake> ♪ <Amy> I hear it.
<Blake> <Blake> <Amy> It's like a funhouse.
♪ <Blake> Then we get the final product of flour.
<Carrie> Is it gonna spew out?
Huh?
♪ There it is.
♪ That is crazy.
♪ <Amy> That's our flour.
<Blake> Once we receive the, the flour we're going to bin that, and then based on the customer specification, we're going to blend that flour and add different ingredients or additional processes.
Really what that does is that helps the leavening process for a biscuit.
For Carrie, she wants a product that when she bakes her biscuits, the biscuit is going to rise the height that they are, and we will pre-blend that flour for her so that way her biscuits are exactly the way she wants them.
♪ <Carrie> I got to touch grain, I got to touch flour, I got to see the whole process.
It's fascinating.
♪ Once it's made here, then it's loaded onto a train, and taken to Toledo and that's where they do all the bagging of our flour, and that's where we're going next.
♪ This plant is now gonna show us how they get it into the facility, into the bags, make it into a case, and on a truck to us.
<Mike> That's where the flour comes in from the bulk house that we went to yesterday.
So when we get the flour in.
It goes through to the packed bin, and it goes through a doser.
Each of them dispense five pounds of flour at a time.
If the weight is too high or too low it gets kicked off on that shoot there.
One bale is eight five pound bags of flour.
We will usually run 2400, 40 pound bales a day.
<Mike> Carrie is actually going to take the flour that we made on this line, and feed our whole plant.
If you're using our flour, you're gonna make a good biscuit <Carrie> Well, now I know who to call, Mike, when I need extra flour.
I'm gonna ask you to put it on the line.
<Mike> Absolutely, let us know.
♪ <Tyler> We're at the Bowling Green Curling Club and we're about to do some curling today.
Object here is to use your legs for the power, and then let go of the rock with a little bit of twist.
So then it ends up in this house right here and they get to score a point.
<Amy> Are we in for the advanced class?
Because I have some mad skills.
(Tyler laughs) <Tyler> Big thing with Carrie and Amy is I'm just trying to have them avoid falling.
<Amy> Hello, fellow Olympians.
<Tyler> First skill and the most important is balance.
So, every skill that we work on pretty much works with balance.
<Carrie> I'm scared to fall.
I don't want to fall.
<Tyler> Okay.
<Amy> I will probably fall.
<Tyler>Stay off the ice for now <Amy>Just pick me up, okay!
Just pick me up if I fall.
<Tyler> Thank you.
<Carrie> Amy likes to take me on wild adventures.
I don't know anything about curling, so.
<Amy> Oh, boy.
<Carrie> I don't know how I'm gonna slide myself, like the moonwalk?
<Tyler> First rule, just for safety, never walk backwards.
Speaking of moon walking.
<Carrie> I just walked backwards.
(laughs) <Tyler> Because if you're, if you don't see where you're going, these things are 42 pounds.
So they'll stop you before you start to move it and you'll slip.
<Amy> Let me just touch.
♪ <Tyler> And then never lift them.
<Amy> Never lift them.
Because I just had to see what it was like.
<Tyler> Never ever let them leave the ice.
<Carrie> Never lift them.
<Amy> Never ever lift them or walk backwards.
(laughs) <Tyler> Yeah... <Carrie> ...You've broken both the rules.
<Tyler> That's rule number two.
<Amy> This is what not to do.
<Tyler> So the first thing you're going to do, this is what we call the hack.
Step into this if you're right handed with your right foot, and then you step on the slider.
and then alls you're going to do to get your balance is just push out.
<Amy> Put me right there, I'm gonna break my neck.
Do we have to use the slider?
<Tyler> We do not.
There is a stick delivery as well.
<Amy> I'll try that.
<Amy> Oh such excellent form.
<Tyler> Just like that.
<Carrie> I'm not going very far.
<Tyler> Alright.
(Carrie yells) <Tyler> Just like that.
<Amy> Wowzer.
<Tyler> Yup.
Just like that.
<Carrie> You did it.
(Amy laughs) I'll lunge, you stick.
<Amy> Okay.
<Carrie> What is the goal?
To get into the blue?
<Tyler> To the house over there is what we call it.
<Amy> Let's get to the house, and not fall.
<Carrie> Go.
Go.
Go.
<Amy> I had good technique.
<Carrie> Yeah.
<Amy> This is not an ice rink.
This is like a bowling alley, which I had no idea.
<Tyler> Here's a broom for you.
<Carrie> I love a broom.
What does the broom girl do?
<Tyler> Broom speeds it up.
<Carrie> I feel like he's gonna go fast.
<Amy> He's gonna really get after it.
<Carrie> Oh boy.
Oh boy.
<Tyler> Sweep, sweep.
<Carrie> Sweep, sweep.
♪ <Tyler> Hard!
<Amy> Don't touch it, don't touch it.
<Carrie> Why's it going over here?
I'm trying to sweep it.
<Tyler> Sweep, sweep.
Keep going, Keep going.
<Carrie> Watch out.
<Tyler> Keep going.
<Carrie> I touched the rock.
<Amy> It'll probably knock me over.
<Tyler> Sweep it.
Sweep it.
Sweep it.
It's in the red.
♪ <Carrie> You can do it.
<Amy> What?
<Carrie> You can do it.
<Carrie> Yeaaah!
<Tyler> Nice shot.
<Carrie> Do you think I have a chance to maybe practice with the Olympians?
<Tyler> Oh, you just got to stick with it.
<Carrie> Okay.
<Amy> So you're saying, <Tyler> There's a chance.
we have a chance.
<Carrie> Got a chance.
(laughs) <Tyler> As Olympic curling hopefuls, they're really good at biscuits.
<Amy> Oh my gosh, Tyler, thank you so much.
<Carrie> Thank you!
<Tyler> Nice job.
<Amy> I've always wanted to do this.
<Carrie> The director of fun, she nailed it.
I didn't think I was gonna like it, but it actually was really great.
I have a 6 pm bedtime because I gotta be up at 3:45 to make biscuits.
<Tyler> How many people?
<Carrie> 400.
<Tyler> 400?
Well, have fun making biscuits.
<Carrie> Thank you, But I'm pretty sure the sweeping thing that doesn't really do anything.
I mean... <Amy> I concur.
<Carrie> Okay.
<Amy> Your secret's safe with me.
<Carrie> Okay.
♪ music ends ♪ <Carrie> We're late.
<Carrie> This always happens when you don't or you're not doing stuff in your own kitchen and you don't know the oven.
I need six more eggs.
I feel like this oven is not even on, like it's doesn't even.
It's like watching paint dry.
We're feeding their 300 plus workers breakfast and lunch.
So we've got a lot of work to do.
<Amy> What time do you want to start assembling sandwiches?
<Carrie> I mean to do 300 sandwiches, we need 30 minutes.
That's six o'clock.
I'm just worried about the biscuits.
♪ Improvising on this little tray I don't know how this is gonna work <Amy> Say a prayer.
<Carrie> So we need six full trays of cinnamon to go into Butter as soon as she's preheated.
♪ I'm hoping they're gonna love our biscuits so much that they're going to always be able to make our flour since we've had many shortages lately, so I'm hoping to butter them up and they'll remember that we need that flour.
♪ <Michael> We're at 5:45.
<Carrie> These biscuits are nowhere near.
<Michael> What are you thinking?
<Carrie> I'm thinking they better bake fast.
They're getting there.
These will all be ready.
240 be ready, then 60 shy.
♪ So that's one down.
If we can have half ready at 6:30 and then we can get half ready between 6:30 and 7, right?
♪ <Amy> It's 6:05.
<Carrie> Okay.
<Carrie> 10 minutes and we've done two trays.
At 6:15 we have to switch to bacon, egg and cheese.
Y'all I'm telling you an assembly line is the way to go.
♪ You have one person wrapping, coming behind butter wrap.
♪ Are we doing one cooler with bacon egg and cheese and one with sausage?
♪ Butter for these egg and cheese, please.
♪ We need to get two more trays of bacon, egg and cheese done before 6:30.
<Amy> That's 5 minutes.
<Carrie> Uh huh.
<Worker> Let's load these.
<Carrie> Please talk to them and take your time.
<Amy> Somebody needs to go outside.
It's 6:30.
<Carrie> Come on in.
<Amy> Thanks.
<Carrie> Hi!
<Amy> Okay, we're open for business.
♪ Here you go.
<Amy> What would you like?
<Worker> Sausage and egg.
<Amy> You got it.
(worker growls) <Amy> Sausage for you?
Okay, thank you.
We love Ohio.
♪ <Amy> Sure, thank you.
♪ <Worker> This is a once in a lifetime I've been here 45 years.
I've never seen it before.
Very cool.
<Worker #2> Oh, this is definitely a treat.
We've been awaiting her.
We are so happy that she came and that we got to eat and skip our meetings.
(laughs) <Worker> I don't eat a lot of biscuits, but I might start now.
(laughs) <Worker #2> Very light, fluffy.
<Worker #3> Real buttery.
Great flavor to it <Worker #4> It's so good.
It's a great day to be in Toledo.
<Carrie> I'm impressed that we just slayed a 400 person breakfast and it's - the sun hasn't risen.
(laughs) <Amy> That is impressive.
<Carrie> It is.
<Amy> And I have not had one cup of coffee.
<Carrie> I haven't either.
Toledo has been lovely.
I'm ready to go home.
♪ <Amy> Now I'm excited to get back to Charleston and go celebrate Tarah at Annalyle's house for her baby shower.
♪ ♪ <Ashley> The atmosphere here it feels like family.
We always come together to do something special for each other.
<Ashley> I'm a trained pastry chef.
I love doing baby shower cakes because it's so cute and personable.
<Ashley> Are you ready to make a cake?
Guess what we're making a cake for?
One of mommy's co-workers is having a baby, like mommy, so we're gonna make her a cake for her baby shower.
We're gonna make a sponge cake.
So we got to start with eggs.
<Carrie> Ashley is an incredible cake maker and has tons of experience.
<Ashley> How many eggs do we have?
<Ashley's Daughter> One.
<Ashley> And how many is that?
<Ashley's Daughter> Two.
<Ashley> My cake recipe is literally only four ingredients just like we have at the bakery for our biscuit recipe.
So it's amazing that you could take flour and manipulate it in two different ways with basically the same ingredient.
So now we're gonna add sugar.
<Ashley's Daughter> Can I do it?
<Ashley> Yes, baby.
All right.
<Ashley's Daughter> Flour.
<Ashley> Flour.
This one has a soft winter wheat that keeps the cakes nice and tender, nice and fluffy, the crumb that you want in a cake, but it also has that hard winter wheat, so it has the structure that I need in order to build these elaborate cakes that I use.
Okay, you want to help me add the baking powder?
And now we're going to use oil.
So, I actually use oil in my recipes, especially for cake recipes, because oil actually stays a liquid.
So, it's actually creates a lighter texture in a cake.
What's our last ingredient.
<Ashley's Daughter> Mmm.
<Ashley> Vanilla.
(blender whirs) <Ashley's Daughter> Mom, is it tasty?
<Ashley> Maybe you need to tell me, okay?
(laughs) Okay, okay, that's enough.
That's enough.
♪ It's amazing that you can take just a few simple ingredients with flour, and mix it together and it creates something delicious and wonderful.
Okay, we're gonna make a white chocolate butter cream filling.
Does that sound yummy?
<Both> Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy.
Okay!
<Ashley> What's that?
<Ashley's Daughter> Butter.
<Ashley> Butter.
Here we're gonna add some powdered sugar.
(blender whirs) <Ashley> A little bit of heavy cream.
(blender whirs) We have some melted white chocolate, and we're going to add that in while it's mixing.
(blender whirs) A white chocolate butter cream filling (Ashley's Daughter laughs) I like it.
<Ashley> and fresh raspberries.
Soak the cake in a vanilla simple syrup.
This keeps our cake nice and moist, <Ashley's Daughter> Hey mommy.
>> And then we're gonna add our filling.
♪ ♪ So now we are done with our crumb coat and it's gonna go into the fridge to chill for about an hour.
Now that the cake is chilling in the fridge, we're gonna make our butter cream frosting and we're gonna decorate our cake.
♪ (blender whirs) Okay, now it's ready and we can start frosting our cake.
♪ I use a turntable so that way I'm not having to move my arm too much.
The more you have to move your arm, the more mistakes and little ripples that you'll have in your cake.
♪ I like using fresh flowers because it's very feminine, very natural.
I'm going to take one of these big pink daisies and add it to the front of my cake kind of where I want my focal point to be, and then I'm going to take all these little ones and kind of go off of that.
Little edible pearls, I'm gonna just add it on the decorations.
I think Tarah is gonna love this cake.
It's very feminine.
It's very her, so I think she's gonna love it.
I think it's done.
♪ ♪ music fades out ♪ <Annalyle> Today is very special for me because it's not work.
It's, I get to shower some friends with some love, and I have some pictures of Tarah and her husband, Clint.
<Carrie> Annalyle is such a happy light, and loves to shower people and dogs with love.
<Tarah> Looks so great!
<Annalyle> Thank you for coming.
I'm so happy to shower you.
<Tarah> I'm so excited.
Annalyle is the director of rainbows and sunshines, here at Callie's.
So, I have no doubt today will be full of rainbows and sunshines and probably some unexpected surprises.
<Ashley> Hey!
<Annalyle> Hey girl!
Let me see.
I cannot believe we get to have, <Tarah> So pretty.
<Annalyle> one of your cakes.
<Annalyle> Ashley made a cake for Tarah.
I made a cake for Ashley, and this is my cake.
I've never made a cake that stood properly.
Maybe Ashley could teach me that.
I wish I cared, but I don't, but guess what it is?
Delicious.
So we'll surprise her with that later.
Are those real flowers?
<Ashley> They are!
They're fresh flowers.
<Carrie> Let's go see Annalyle, here.
Here, here, here.
<Annalyle> Well, hello!
Welcome.
<Carrie> My babies!
(dogs barking) ♪ <Annalyle> Wait a second.
<Ashley> What?
I have something.
Hold on.
I'll be right back.
<Tarah> She's making a pregnant woman wait on cake?
(laughs) <Annalyle> Oh Ashley.
<Carrie> Aww!
<Annalyle> I made you a cake.
<Carrie> Ashley gets a cake.
<Ashley> Thank you <Annalyle> Well, you made a cake for Tarah.
Carrie, Why are you laughing at my cake?
<Carrie> Because it looks just like mine.
Whenever I make a cake that's what it looks like.
<Annalyle>I like a three layer instead I like it slanted.
of a two layer, and I always have and I'm not going back.
<Annalyle> Uh huh.
<Ashley> Well, I had no idea that this was anything for me.
I thought I was in charge of the cake and that was it and we were celebrating Tarah.
So it was a nice little surprise that she had for me here.
♪ <Carrie> At the end of the day, food is always the connector.
It brings strangers together.
Loved ones together.
It's great for celebrations.
Food is the thing that binds us.
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