Does anyone
remember that excellent cookery course called Cordon Bleu that ran in the late
sixties? My mother collected a new issue each week (72 in all), and bought me
the full set when I married. Their recipe for brownies has never failed me.
Ingredients
> 60 gm cocoa powder
mixed with:
> 5 Tbls water
> 90 gm margerine (butter taste)
> 240 gm white sugar
> 2 eggs
> 90 gm white plain flour
> ½ tsp baking
powder
> Pinch of salt
> 120 gm
walnuts or pecans, roughly chopped
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Steps
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. If you have a convection oven,
make it 170°C.
2. If you are using nuts (omit when small kids
are eating this), roughly chop them up.
3. Mix the cocoa powder and the water in a
small saucepan, add the marge, and melt on a low flame, while stirring.
4. Whisk the eggs and sugar until light.
5. Add the cocoa mixture.
6. Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt.
7. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon.
8. Stir in the nuts.
9. Grease an 8” square cake tin and pour in the
mixture.
10. Level it and place it in the oven for 30-35
minutes, until a dull crust has formed.
11. Let it cool a bit and then cut into squares.
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