Brownies

[Happyface514]

History of Brownies?

[el duerino]

11.44 - gathered ingredients 12.01 - finished mixing 12.02 - placed in oven 12.30 - removed from oven 12.31 - left to cool 12.45 - ate brownies a short history

[Doolallygirl]

ha ha ha

[SteveD]

Try this: http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/members/brownies/forBrownies/

[Doolallygirl]

Seeing as this is in the food and drink category I think Happyface means the food as in the cake Brownie rather than brownie as in girl guide!

[SteveD]

I know, but nobdy has answered the question!

[Doolallygirl]

I know that too! But I don't know the history of Brownies and putting a wrong answer up just for the sake of putting an answer isn't particularly helpful either!!! lol

[MrsCheeks]

"Brownie...the name comes from the deep brown color of the confection, and it has been an American favorite since the nineteenth century first appearing in print in 1906 in the "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book," Earlier references to brownies" include Sears, Roebuck Catalog for 1897, although the reference is to mail order chocolate candies named after cartoon elves created by author Palmer Cox in a series that began with "The Brownies: Their Book" [1887], and in the 1896 edition of the "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" for a browned molasses confection containing no chocolate." source: The Encyclopedia of American Food & Drink, John F. Mariani [Lebhar-Friedman:New York] 1999 (p.44) http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/foodfaq.html just ask Jeeves hehee