Chocolate Brownies
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
servings
Method
Cream the shortening and sugar together.
Add the well-beaten eggs, chocolate dissolved in boiling water, salt, flour, vanilla, and nuts.
Spread thin in 2 greased square pans.
Bake in a slow oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 to 25 minutes.
Cut in strips to serve.
Original recipe, verbatim
Chocolate Brownies
1 cupful sugar yi cupful flour
6 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 1 cupful chopped English
2 eggs walnut meats
2 squares chocolate 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
y^ teaspoonful salt 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water
Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, chocolate
dissolved in boiling water, salt, flour, vanilla, and nuts. Divide and spread
thin in 2 Criscoed square pans and bake in slow oven from twenty to
twenty-five minutes. Cut in strips and serve with ice cream. These are
a cross between cookies and heavy cake.
Sufficient for fifty brownies.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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