Fannie Farmer's 1896 Brownies | Glen And Friends Cooking

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In our quest to find the perfect best brownie recipe, we ran across this one in Fannie Farmers 1896 cookbook. Is it the first written brownie recipe? Not sure about that, but it is different than what we would call a brownie today.
What we need to remember is that in 1896 chocolate wasn't widely available, and these were probably called brownies because of the colour of the molasses. Eventually chocolate would be added, molasses would be removed and the modern brownie would be born.
This recipe however would live on as what we would today call the Blondie.
This is a slightly modified version of the 1896 brownie recipe in Fannie Farmers cookbook.
Ingredients:
1/3 cup (75 mL) butter at room temp
1/3 cup (75 mL) powdered icing sugar
1/3 cup (75 mL) cooking or fancy molasses
1 egg
7/8 cup (240 mL) bread flour
1 cup (250 mL) chopped pecans

Method:
Pre heat oven to 350ºF (180ºC)
Mix ingredients in order, then bake 15-20 minutes in small shallow tart tins.
Makes about 4.
Let cool on rack before serving.
You can easily sub darker molasses or Maple syrup for the fancy molasses if you wish.


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