Grammie Jewell's Recipe Box: Fantastic Brownies

Friday, June 14, 2013

Fantastic Brownies

Oh my ... I just had the best brownie for breakfast!!! Probably not the most nutritious choice, but certainly a tasty one!

I've recently been on a quest to find a really good brownie recipe, and I discovered that I should have just looked at my old recipes. Yesterday I made a batch using a recipe I used over 40 years ago. They may just be the best brownies I've had ... in forty years! ha! They blow box mixes out of the water!!! I must say, I prefer them cold ... but I’m sure they would be equally delicious if served hot with vanilla ice cream. Enjoy!

FANTASTIC BROWNIES

Ingredients:

4 sq. Baker's unsweetened chocolate
3/4 c. (1 1/2 sticks) butter (I used 'Salted Butter' because that is what I have on hand)
2 c. sugar
3 eggs (I used 4 because, although the carton said they were large eggs, they seemed a bit on the small side)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. flour (I added 1 Tbl due to high altitude)
1 c. chopped nuts, optional (I did not have any, so I made mine without)

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Microwave chocolate and butter in large microwave bowl at high 2 minutes or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is completely melted.

3. Stir sugar into chocolate. Mix in eggs and vanilla until well blended. Stir in flour and nuts.

4. Spread in greased 13 x 9 inch pan.

Note: When using glass baking dish, bake at 325 degrees.

For cake-like brownies, stir in 1/2 cup milk with eggs; use 1 1/2 cups flour.

5. Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with fudgie crumbs. Cool in pan; cut into squares. Makes 24 fudgie brownies.

Enjoy!

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Welcome to Grammie Jewell's Recipe Box! I hope you will enjoy these recipes as much as my family has enjoyed them over the years.

I really enjoy cooking. My Mother and Grandmother were fabulous cooks; everything they made was prepared with love, and always tasted fantastic!

The love of cooking was instilled in me at a very young age. I have many fond memories of helping in the kitchen. Ok, I am sure I was not much help, but at the time I felt as if I was. We did not have food processors back then, and one of my favorite jobs in the kitchen was chopping the vegetables with the food chopper. It was the kind that you place over the food on a cutting board and then hit the top of it with your hand to make the blade go down onto the vegetables. Each ‘hit’ would result in the vegetables being chopped a little smaller, with the end result being perfectly chopped bits. It was a really great tool … and fun!

I especially enjoy cooking for my family. It is one way that I can express my love for them. It makes me happy to fix their favorite dishes and to see them enjoy what I have prepared. They often ask how to prepare a particular dish, so I thought starting a recipe blog would be a good idea.

I have so many absolutely wonderful recipes for dishes my Mother and Grandmother prepared for our family, as well as other recipes I have collected over the years. I will be including them on this blog. Yes, it will take some time to enter them all, but I plan to plug away until I have them posted. In the beginning all of my recipes won’t have photos, but as I make each dish I will take photos and add them to the recipe.