Recipe for Joy
Recently, our church decided to put together a cookbook. It will feature favorite recipes from members of our congregation. I’ve had some experience with church cookbooks. They are filled with tried and true dishes.
Mike suggested I share picadillo. It’s one of his favorites. You may remember my blog post about my first experience making it. If you want to try this favorite Cuban staple, CLICK HERE.
Then, this week when I talked about my blog, Mike said I should share a recipe or two. I appreciate he likes my cooking, but I wasn’t sure about filling the space with recipes. Still, I culled through my recipes and cookbooks, wondering if anyone would be interested.
I pulled out another church cookbook. One I’ve had since 1986. The cover is missing. Many of the pages are ragged. But as I turned the pages, remembering precious friends from those days, I came to a well-worn page, stained with chocolate fingerprints. It is the page featuring a family favorite: Brownies.
I would often make the brownies and while they were still a bit warm, we would slice them apart, put vanilla ice cream in them and pour hot fudge on top.
The chocolate treat was not only a favorite in our family, it was a favorite with their friends. So, those fingerprints on the pages? Not mine.
Sweet Memories.
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| Brownie Recipe Well Loved & Used |
So, in case you can’t read the recipe in the picture, here it is:
Brownies
2 C sugar 6 T cocoa
1 ½ C flour 1 tsp salt
1 C Crisco ½ tsp vanilla
4 eggs ½ C milk
*opt: vanilla ice cream, *hot fudge topping
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, Grease a 9X12” rectangular cake pan. In large bowl, mix first eight ingredients until batter is smooth. Pour into cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for thirty (30) minutes. Brownies are done if toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Cool and cut into squares. While still warm, split individual brownies horizontally and fill with a scoop of ice cream. Pour warmed hot fudge topping over brownies and serve.
And remember, it isn’t the chocolate or the ice cream. It is the love and memories and friends who make any recipe delicious. It’s the recipe of life.
