eating like an author: elizabeth bishop edition

The blanket fort is still up. Adulting is still hard. Time to make brownies. 

Elizabeth Bishop's brownies-

Ingredients:
4 squares bitter chocolate, or 1 cup of cocoa
4 eggs
1/2 cup butter
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup flower
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups chopped nuts

Steps:
1) Build a time machine and travel back to when slow ovens were a thing.

2) If you use bitter chocolate: melt the butter and the chocolate together.
If you use the cocoa: melt the butter and mix in the cocoa, half the sugar, and a little water.

3) Let cool, then beat in the eggs and the rest of the sugar.

4) Mix in flour, vanilla, and chopped nuts.

5) Spread the batter about an inch thick into a thick square pan. The batter is fairly stiff and will not run much.

6) Bake in a slow oven (325° F) for 45 minutes to an hour. They are done when they are dry on top, damp in the middle, and just pulling away from the edges.

7) Get too excited to wait for it to cool and eat it directly out of the pan with a fork.

The result:
Damn, that lady loved chopped nuts.
This came out to be a delicious creation halfway between brownies and fudge. I can see why she was frequently asked to bring 4 dozen of these and a chocolate cake everywhere she went during her time in Brazil.





much love,
hedgie