RECIPE: One Bowl Brownies (McBridge)
(Baked from scratch by Maria Elizabeth Rodriguez, 9)

1      cup oil
6      tablespoons cocoa
4      eggs
2      cups sugar
2      tablespoons Karo syrup
1      teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2  cups flour
1      teaspoon baking powder
1      teaspoon salt
1      cup chopped nuts, optional

Put oil in a bowl. Stir in cocoa, eggs, sugar, Karo and vanilla.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt together; add to cocoa mixture.
Stir in nuts. Pour into greased 8x12 pan and bake at 350 F for 30
minutes. If a glass pan is used, bake at 325 F. They are chewier
if not overbeaten or overbaked.

These brownies have been the primary dessert addition to "cowboy"
lunch boxes on the McBride ranch in Llano for some 30 years.
                                    Mrs. Heston McBridge (Jean)

[Lone Star Legacy, by Austin Junior Forum; 1981, Austin Junior
Forum, Austin TX; pg 260.]

[We were looking for a recipe that didn't call for melting down chocolate. 
Since then, my sister Dorothy told me the substitution for a square (1
oz.) of unsweetened baking chocolate: 3 TBSP cocoa plus 1 TBSP oil.]

Chaz Baden, P.O. Box 17522, Anaheim CA 92817 (310) 542-5849.

January 1994

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