Katharine Hepburn's Brownies
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From "A Harried Cook's Guide to Some Fast Food" by Laurie Colwin from Endless Feasts | April 2003 edited by Ruth Reichl Modern Library
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- 50mins
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ingredients
- 2 (1 ounce) unsweetened chocolate squares
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄4 cup flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
directions
- Melt together 1 stick butter and 2 squares unsweetened chocolate and take the saucepan off the heat.
- Stir in 1 cup sugar, add 2 eggs and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and beat the mixture well.
- Stir in 1/4 cup all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt. (In the original recipe, 1 cup chopped walnuts is added here as well.).
- Bake the brownies in a buttered and floured 8-inch-square pan at 325°F for about 40 minutes.
- You can cut these brownies into squares, once they have cooled, and eat them out of the pan, but it is so much nicer to pile them on a fancy plate, from which people are going to eat them with their hands anyway. If you want to smarten up your act you can put a square of brownie on a plate with a little blob of créme fraîche and a scattering of shaved chocolate.
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"From "A Harried Cook's Guide to Some Fast Food" by Laurie Colwin
from Endless Feasts | April 2003
edited by Ruth Reichl
Modern Library"
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Great gooey chewy brownies! I doubled recipe and glad I did! Made for PAC fall 2012
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Wonderful true brownie. Have had this recipe for many years and found that it is important to use unsalted butter, as written. If directions are followed exactly noone should have a problem with them. They do make a thinner square.
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OMG!! These are the best Brownies ever!!! I served these warm with some cherries and whip cream!!
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I've been cooking these for quite a while and they are a very moist and delicious brownie. I first found the recipe years ago in a magazine interview of Ms. Hepburn - her instructions re #2 here were to "beat like mad." It always seemed unusual that this only has 1/4 cup of flour, but it works well.
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