Did you
know?
• The legend of how the brownie was created is told variously, one story states that a cook was making a cake but didn’t have enough flour. The favorite version states, a housewife in Bangor, Maine, was making a chocolate cake but forgot to add baking powder. When her cake didn’t rise properly, instead of tossing it out, she cut and served the flat pieces. The two earliest published recipes for chocolate brownies appear in Boston-based cookbooks. While the first brownie recipes were published and variations began to evolve in the first years of the 20th century, it took until the 1920’s for the brownie to become “the bee’s
knees” of baked chocolate treats, a position it maintains today. • The worlds largest brownie was made in 2001. It weighted 3,000 pounds, and was made with 750 pounds of chocolate chips, 500 pounds of butter, 850 pounds of sugar, 500 pounds of flour, and 3,500 eggs! • The first brownie made was not actually a brownie at all. It was a tasty treat sweetened with molasses that we know as a blondie today. • The best way to serve a chocolate brownie is serving it fresh and hot with vanilla ice cream. Other toppings like hot fudge or fresh whipped cream are optional. It’s the most common desert item on the menus of country diners and fine dining establishments. • Brownies are one of the few foods with a fine line between the way it should be prepared. Half of the world loves a cake like brownie, whilst the other half would die without a beautiful fudge brownie to devour. •Brownies go quite well with cold vanilla ice cream or whipped cream and choclate hot sause.
Brownies are a great way to relieve that chocolate craving. Moist and fluffy, or cakey and fudgy either
way warm and delicious. Brownies are easy to make and don’t need many ingredients. Here is grandmas special recipe:
4 large eggs 1 cup sugar, sifted 1 cup brown sugar 8 ounces butter 11/4 cups cocoa 2 teaspoons vanilla 1/2 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon salt Written by Grace Breckenridge