
Chocolate Brownies – Five Facts About Brownies You Didn’t Know
Five quick facts below to make your mouth water.
1. The first time the name “brownie” appeared in a cookbook was in the 1896 version of Fannie Meritt Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cook Book. This brownie referred to tiny cake-like versions, not a real brownie like you’ll find today.
2. It was pretty quiet in the brownie world after that – it took almost 11 years for a real brownie recipe to appear, also in the Boston Cooking School Cook Book, which was the first time a brownie , as we know today, was published . I don’t know if there were any color pictures or if he was referring to using organic or fair trade chocolate, but it was definitely a groundbreaking recipe.
3. One of the most popular stories about the origin of the brownie is told in the Encyclopedia or American Food and Drink, which reports that a housewife in Bangor, Maine, forgot to add some baking powder to his brownie, and so his batch didn’t’ rise properly. Always the impeccable host, she went on and sliced her now-invented brownie and shamelessly served it, laying claim to her new invention.
4. Chocolate brownies are one of the few foods where there is a stark difference in how a brownie should be made. Half the world loves a cake like brownie, while the other half would die without a nice fudge brownie to devour.
5. Personally, I love chocolate fudge brownies way more than the cake versions.
So there you have it, just a few facts about chocolate brownies for you. Now go eat it!