[Sca-cooks] Lainie-brownies

[Sue Clemenger]

Killer-Death, Queen-Seducing Artery-Hardening "These Ain't on No-one's 
Diet, Nohow" Brownies, courtesy of Lainie The Magnificent, as Channeled 
by Maire
--preheat oven to 350 farenheit
--prepare a standard 9"x13" cake pan (I line mine with tinfoil, and then 
butter the tinfoil)

In a microwavable bowl with some room to it, melt 1 c of real butter. 
None of this sissy margarine.  I use unsalted butter.  When that's 
melted, stir in half a package of chocolate chips.  Use good-quality 
chocolate chips.  Don't both with milk-chocolate chips.  Stir these 
around in the butter until everything's smoothed out and melty.
In another (larger) bowl, combine 1 c. of granulated sugar and 1 c. 
dutched cocoa (other kind works okay, but dutched tastes better).  This 
is the powdered, unsweetened stuff.  Make sure you've sifted or sieved 
the cocoa to get rid of lumpage.  Into this bowl, pour the 
butter/chocolate sludge, and mix well.
Now, using your sturdy arm and a good, wooden spoon or other similar 
instrument of cooking, stir into the batter 4 good-sized eggs (yes, raw 
and minus the shells, you eegits!), one at a time, stirring well after 
each one.  Beat until satiny.  Add in there somewhere, add one-half 
teaspoon real vanilla.  If you're using "mexican vanilla," use less, 
unless you want a distinct vanilla tone to the baked brownies.
Into all of this, add 1 c. of all-purpose flour into which has been 
stirred one-half teaspoon of salt.  Stir well, and then add in the other 
half of the bag of chips (you didn't think you got to eat them, now did 
you?)
The batter's pretty thick by this point, even if you cheated and doubled 
up on the melted chocolate part like I did this time.  Spoon it into 
your prepared pan, and smooth it out evenly.
Bake in the oven for about 30 mins.  These are seriously moist brownies, 
  so they'll seem really almost underbaked when you first take them out, 
but they firm up some as they cool.  If you can stand to wait that long 
(I couldn't).
Lainie sez to watch for false-positives if you're doing a toothpick test 
for doneness, as you may hit a motherlode of chocolate chips.

My coworker, Steve, thinks they'd be just smashing with the addition of 
a little Jack Daniels (although Steve says that about a lot of things, 
but then it's that type of workplace ;o), perhaps mixed with a little 
confectioner's sugar as a thin glaze brushed across the hot brownies.  I 
thought they might be good with some cinnamon, as well, but that may 
well be verging on the heretical.

--maire, off to check the maddering sock yarn on the stove...

p.s.  Anahita, did you want a copy of that Plimoth Plantation pamphlet I 
had?

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> So is someone going to post the ferkin' recipe already?
> 
> Cheez, talk about spoon tease...
> 
> And, uh, i get the digest, so if it was posted after Vol. 12 Issue 100 i 
> apologize.
> 
> Anahita