Jennifer Garner Twins W_ Her Mom While Baking Together
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00:00 "Well, this can't go in there right now. We're gonna whip the eggs."
00:04 "Oh darn it. Pardon me."
00:05 Jennifer Garner's mom, Pat Garner, is schooling her during an adorable cameo
00:10 on her hilarious Instagram video series, Pretend Cooking Show.
00:14 On Wednesday, the mother-daughter duo twinned in matching customized sweaters
00:19 as they made a very nostalgic dessert.
00:21 "We've gotta reveal our sweaters. I'm hardly ever without buttermilk."
00:27 A quote made famous by Pat Garner herself.
00:30 "We are making one of my childhood favorite pies. Where did we find them, Mom?"
00:33 "Southern Living."
00:35 "Which year?"
00:35 "1989."
00:38 "You can tell it's loved because the page is dirty."
00:41 "It's great with peaches, any stone fruit, berries.
00:44 Its genesis is Mrs. Clifford B. Smith Sr. from Whitehall, Maryland."
00:49 "Do you have it memorized?"
00:51 "Even when you've memorized something, it's good to check the original recipe."
00:55 "How old is this roll of paper?"
00:59 "It belonged to my mother."
01:00 "Oh boy."
01:01 "It's the only thing I have that belonged to my mother, except a quill."
01:06 The Yes Day star worked hard to follow the instructions while her mom supervised.
01:10 "Does that look okay to you?"
01:12 "It should be."
01:13 "Is that a stiff peak, Mom?"
01:18 "Yeah."
01:23 "We rub butter on it."
01:26 "Yes, we do."
01:26 "Go on the sides. Don't leave that."
01:30 "I love nuts."
01:31 "Now, you want to shape it like a pie crust."
01:34 "This is not our specialty, Pat."
01:36 "I'm not a pretty baker. Can I have a plain piece?"
01:40 "Take your finger and wipe off the spatula."
01:42 "Alexa, set the timer for 30 minutes."
01:51 Later that day, Jen also posted a precious throwback photo of herself
01:55 with a hand mixer for her birthday.
01:58 As their heartwarming show continued, the 51-year-old's special guest decided
02:03 it was time for a break.
02:04 "Okay, so Pat Garner went on a walk to close her rings."
02:08 "I'm gonna cut up some strawberries."
02:09 "Somewhere I can be alone."
02:15 "This is how my mom composts."
02:21 "Enjoy!"
02:21 "What's it for?"
02:22 "For the bears."
02:22 When she returned, Pat picked up right where she left off,
02:25 showing her daughter how it's done.
02:27 "I found that it cooks better in a cold bowl,
02:30 so I used metal bowls and I put them in the refrigerator."
02:34 "Do you know what happens if you whip cream too much?"
02:41 "Yes, ma'am."
02:42 "What?"
02:43 "Butter!"
02:44 In the end, the pair enjoyed a delicious breakfast.
02:46 "I'm gonna make a little bit of a pie crust."
02:48 "Okay."
02:49 "Okay."
02:49 In the end, the pair enjoyed a sweet treat together,
02:52 as Jennifer captioned the clip with the recipe and wrote,
02:56 "Summertime for the Garner girls.
02:57 There was always a garden.
02:59 Farmers markets were king.
03:00 We ate dinner on the deck my dad built.
03:03 And for dessert, we had mom's chiffon pie."
03:06 "It's kind of like eating this."
03:07 "Eating what?"
03:08 The mom of three's skills in the kitchen may come in handy for her busy kids.
03:14 In April 2023, she spoke to Access Hollywood about why she loves having teenagers,
03:19 while promoting her recent series, The Last Thing He Told Me.
03:22 Did you have an opportunity or is a part of your process to bring part of your own experience with
03:29 now teenagers at home, right?
03:31 To bring part of that to Hannah's real, her experience, your own experience?
03:36 I mean, you always bring yourself to anything that you do, right?
03:41 And the more that you live, and I think that's why I'm enjoying my job more and more as I get
03:45 older, as I have a lot more life to bring to it than I did when I was 30.
03:50 And so yes, of course, I bring having teenagers to the job, but it was much harder for me to
03:57 not be maternal than to use what I know to do.
04:01 I love having teenagers.
04:03 Can they roll their eyes at me?
04:06 Or yeah, absolutely, of course.
04:08 And they have every right to, by the way.
04:10 They need to be doing that.
04:12 They're right to be doing that.
04:13 It's a different thing with Bailey, because she just flat out doesn't like me.
04:17 I mean, it's just like, you again?
04:20 Yes, she just wants me to go away.
04:24 So that's a whole other ball of wax.
04:27 Well, I'm going to tell you something that I hope never goes away.
04:31 Okay.
04:32 It is you in the presence of my Instagram feed.
04:36 The you on Instagram, if there should be an award ceremony for Instagram personality,
04:43 people who we love on Instagram, you should win.
04:45 Oh my God.
04:47 I mean, we have this little thing on our show called Gramsplaining,
04:50 and you've got some Gramsplaining to do.
04:53 And I'm going to show you some images, and I want you to run us through what the hell
04:59 was going on.
05:00 Okay, all right.
05:01 This is my favorite, because it just reminds me of my own mom pulling up to school with
05:07 the hair and the rollers.
05:09 I was celebrating my Southern girl Reese Witherspoon's birthday.
05:15 I mean, come on.
05:16 Come on.
05:17 It was the tutorial we didn't know we needed.
05:21 She was like, "And then to finish it off, you got to ride back to school, you know,
05:25 roll the windows down."
05:26 You need to cool, yeah.
05:26 You got to cool the girls.
05:27 You take them out when they're hot, it's not doing any good.
05:30 It's not good.
05:31 Okay, I'm going to say this, and I hope that I can say it now on record.
05:36 If Selena Gomez can have a cooking show, I think it's time to take yours on broadcast.
05:44 Okay.
05:45 Okay.
05:45 This scenario, I just feel like watching you cook, I was hoping it was going to give me
05:55 some hope.
05:55 It doesn't.
05:56 I just redid my kitchen.
05:57 I was like, "Hey, there's no way I'm making none of this stuff."
05:59 But what is it going to take for us to get the real cooking show?
06:04 Would you do one?
06:04 You have it.
06:05 Would you do one?
06:05 It's there.
06:07 It's called the Pretend Cooking Show, and we have like 80 or something episodes, so
06:12 please enjoy.
06:13 Oh, my God.
06:14 I don't know if I can survive it.
06:15 I mean, I only do them when I'm truly going to cook or bake something.
06:20 Okay.
06:21 So you'd have to just be in my kitchen at all times.
06:24 Poor Mo.
06:25 Sounds like an invitation to me.
06:27 I'll be there Thursday.
06:28 Come on over, honey.
06:29 Yeah, no problem.
06:30 Okay, here's the last one.
06:31 And this was hilarious to me because I feel like springtime brings the best and the worst
06:36 of us out to the gym.
06:38 Oh, no.
06:38 Oh, no.
06:39 What's it going to be?
06:39 Okay, here's the last one.
06:40 And this was hilarious to me because I feel like springtime brings the best and the worst
06:45 of us out to the gym.
06:48 Oh, no.
06:48 Oh, no.
06:49 What's it going to be?
06:49 Okay.
06:50 Out to the gym.
06:50 Yes.
06:51 It was the jazzercise for me.
06:53 Oh.
06:54 It was the jazzercise.
06:56 Also, is it Zumba?
06:58 Is that just the-?
06:59 No, no.
07:00 It's a workout called The Limit, and it's very hard.
07:04 I did it at 545 this morning, and it's just hard.
07:08 It's a lot of plyo.
07:09 Thigh warmer situations?
07:10 Leg warmers, yeah.
07:11 Because you know what?
07:12 They keep your legs warm.
07:14 They're not a fashion statement.
07:17 They legitimately warm your legs.
07:19 My knees are old.
07:20 I love it.
07:21 I'm like, "My knees are old."
07:23 Well, I think the part of the caption of this was like, "For my kids' embarrassment until
07:29 they're 50."
07:30 You know what I mean?
07:31 Like, "Yes, this is what you do, folks."
07:34 Yes.
07:34 The part of the joy of parenting is ruining the kids.
07:38 Yes.
07:38 Oh, I've taken great pleasure.
07:40 Yeah, I embarrass them every day.
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