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Sunday, September 7
Still looking for a good brownie recipe. Its shocking and somewhat demeaning to realize that the best damn brownies I've had over the last few years have been out of a box. I'm definitely doing something wrong. Too much sugar, too little chocolate..... something.
Here's the recipe I used tonight, from The Joy of Cooking (the original, non-updated edition):
melt 1 stick butter with 4oz chocolate. Let cool.
Beat 4 eggs with 1/2 t salt. Then beat in 1t vanilla and 2c sugar.
Stir in the chocolate, then 1c flour, then nuts if desired.
Bake at 350 for 20-25min.
So.... even though I used good chocolate, room temperature eggs, and extra fine baker's sugar.... they came out sort of mealy. Like the sugar didn't combine well. Also, by the time the sugar was incorporated, the eggs had gone from foamy to stringy, like very loose gum, so I wondered if that was a bad thing.
On the other hand, I've heard that brownies get better the next day, and at least after they've cooled. So I'll test them again tomorrow.
But I'm scouring my favorite blog still for a better recipe, or for someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong - I did notice that the batch today did not call for baking powder, which seemed slightly weird. I wonder if whipping the egg whites separately before folding them in would make a light fluffy brownie....
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