OT? Brownie recipe needed

Here's the one I use from my Betty Crocker cookbook (1969 edition):

4 ounces unsweetened chocolate 1/2 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking pan, 13x9x2 inches. Melt chocolate and shortening in large saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat. Mix in sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Stir in remaining ingredients. Spread in pan.

Bake 30 minutes or until brownies start to pull away from sides of pan. Do not overbake. Cool slightly. Cut into bars. If desired, frost before cutting.

For a ton of variations of brownies, go to

and search recipes for brownies.

Julia > Good morning.

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:46:15 -0600, claudia wrote (in article ):

Claudia, Can you find a copy of the Joy of Cooking? The older the better. It has one of the best brownie recipes ever!

Let me know if you can't find it and I'll e-mail the recipe to you.

Maureen

Howdy!

http://www.janetj> Good morning.

Claudia, I've been using this one for years, and for a 13 x 9 x 2 pan, just double the recipe:

1 Cup sugar 2 eggs 1/3 Cup Butter or margarine, softened 1/2 Cup Baker's Cocoa Powder (not bars) 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract 2/3 Cup Flour 1/2 teaspoon Baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 Cup Chopped Walnuts

Combine sugar and butter, add eggs beating after each. Add rest of ingredients and mix well. Fold in nuts. Bake 350 F in a greased and floured pan (8"square if not doubled) for 25-30 minutes. When shiny on top, check with toothpick in center, it should be moist not gloopy. Let it cool before cutting.

mmm amy in CNY

Thank you everyone.

I will certainly try these recipes. I do have a copy of the Joy of cooking cookbook so I will be using that. I'll let you know!

Claudia

do let us all know which ones you try and which ones work for what you want. j.

"claudia" wrote ... Thank you everyone.

I will certainly try these recipes. I do have a copy of the Joy of cooking cookbook so I will be using that. I'll let you know!

Claudia

Howdy!

I've had a copy of the Joy of Cooking book since 1975 (as an insult from my new m-i-l). It's a funny book, interesting, wide-ranging, and fairly impractical: why do in

4 steps what you could in 16? But if I ever need to know how to clean "wild game", I have the info at hand. I'd rather be quilting. LOL

R/Sandy - watching for the rain to turn to snow...

You might ask your mil to update your book. It is long overdue. I have bought several copies I pick up at the thrift store and save to give away to folks learning to cook. Some of the recipes have cumbersome methods but the actual recipes (ingredients) are tops. The book is a great reference for basic cooking and food terms. The newest one I have is copyrighted '97. They don't 'do' game anymore. Some might miss that. They really do update the issues over the years. I enjoy cookbooks. Old and new. Fun to watch the change in how folks eat. My newest copy even has tofu. Guess that took over the squirrel recipes pages? lol

I keep copies of Joy, really old and very new in my collection. Neighbor here shot a hundred-pound wild pig last night. It seems the big hawg had a taste for neighbor's winter squash in his garden. The old Joy could tell him how to cook the critter but I didn't offer. Sometimes it is good to just stand clearn. Polly

"Taria" You might ask your mil to update your book. It

Polly you can be so, um, mischievous some times....I DO declare!! Can you recomend a good pressure cooker cook book (cheap). Thanks

Nana

The 1997 edition came under criticism -- in

is called "the new Coke of cookbooks."As this NYT review says, the 2007 edition is a revision of the 1975edition which was "the most popular." I have the 1961 and 1997 editions, haven't taken the plunge to upgrade. A couple of weeks ago DH bought tripe in the Mexican supermarket. The 1997 Joy, for all its multi-ethnic entries, did not have a recipe for menudo (tripe soup). Nor did it have a recipe for pepper pot (also tripe soup). (The 1961 edition did have pepper pot. But I found a menudo recipe online and he made that. Very tasty.)

Nann

P.S. I can't imagine Sandy asking her MIL to do anything other than to stay away. Her MIL is not a very pleasant woman.

Nann

I 'hear' that the neighbors have called in an exterminator to get rid of the wild hawgs tearing up their gardens. Apparently, 'doing' a pig is a whole heap more effort and mess than they realized - plus we don't know or want to know what they'll have when they're done. Now: as to pressure cooker recipes. I have a nice pressure cooker. I came across it when I was getting my serving pieces down from the top shelves. I just waved at it. For cheap: go to www.Abebooks and look at used books and do a search for pressure cooker recipes. Be sure to tell them which country you're in or they'll toss in some that will kill you in postage costs. Anyhow. Abe will probably offer you dozens for only $ 1 each. In choosing, try to select ones that are about 10 years old. The newest recipe books tend to call for fresh herbs - which are pricey unless you have a bent to grow your own. I'd rather be quilting. Report back. We'd love to hear how it goes. Polly

"NanaWilson" Polly you can be so, um, mischievous some times....I DO declare!!

Wild hawg is interesting hunting. And good eating if they have had a good diet [yep, veggie gardens would rank up there with good food!]

I used to hunt them with my dad's friend who was the game warden.

G> I 'hear' that the neighbors have called in an exterminator to get rid of = the

ide quoted text -

there is a lot of wild pigs/boars/hogs/whatever ya wanna call'em, hunted here in NZ. often caught on the run with a knife rather than a gun. no idea what happens to them once caught/killed. got lots of good baby ferns in nz for them to feed on. that ought give'em some good flavour. j.

"Ginger in CA" wrote ... Wild hawg is interesting hunting. And good eating if they have had a good diet [yep, veggie gardens would rank up there with good food!]

I used to hunt them with my dad's friend who was the game warden.

G> I 'hear' that the neighbors have called in an exterminator to get rid of > the

Howdy!

Reckon I'll pass on that: don't find that book all that useful. Fattening, yes. Impractical, & often hilarious. Perused the updated version at the library: pass. I've been cooking since I was 7, and take joy in cooking really good foods, healthy stuff, w/ fresh ingredients as much as possible, and getting everything on the table at once, hot: hot, cold: cold. Christmas mid-afternoon dinner: crab legs, spaghetti squash, baked potatoes (w/out all the goop). Everyone stuck around for 3rds. Fruit, chocolates and Lebkuchen for afters. Meanwhile, the snow sifted thru' here, lovely; great time to cuddle up under the current project and handquilt while the snow gently settles for the night.

Happy New Year!

R/Sandy

Howdy!

Tripe: p.509-510

tripe: pretty much my opinion of over-rated tomes that take themselves too seriously.

R/Sandy - good cook, great handquilter ;-P