Your Daily Facts about Brownies
Brownie, Brownies - The name comes from the deep-brown color of the cookie. The first known published recipe for "brownies" appeared in the Sears, Roebuck Catalogue in 1897. It is thought that it was created when a careless cook failed to add baking powder to a chocolate-cake batter (the dense, fudgy squares had been made for some time by women who received the recipe by word of mouth). Brownies are dense squares of chewy chocolate cake, usually containing nuts. Culinary historians hav
