Mom and Dad were here for a brief visit this week so I decided to whip them up some brownies. My favorite recipe for brownies came from a cookbook in the Bloomington Indiana library years and years ago. They're called "We Miss You Alice B. Toklas Brownies" and are both easy and amazing.
Alice B. Toklas was a partisan of the Avant-Garde movement and Gertrude Stein's life partner. And she wrote a cookbook in 1954 which contained a number of recipes with a particularly special ingredient. Her brownies were refered to in a 1968 Peter Sellers film, in a 1969 "Holywood Palace" segment, and even in an episode of "Bewitched"!
I'm sorry to disappoint, but the recipe I use does not include Alice's special ingredient. They are eminently worthy anyway. I'll give the recipe as it is printed and will add my personal amendments in the photo captions.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
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