rants & recipes

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup flour **more flour used further down in recipe
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1/4 cup water (or 1/2 cup margarine for oil+water)
• 2/3 cup cocoa
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup nuts (walnuts or pecans-optional) or 1/2 cup chocolate chips

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Mix the 1/3 cup flour with the one cup of water, cook until thick, and cool completely.
3. Combine margarine(or oil/water) with stir in cocoa. Stir until smooth. Cool.
4. Beat sugar, salt, and vanilla into cooled flour mixture. Then add the cocoa mixture.
5. Mix together the 2 cups flour and baking powder and add to above ingredients.
6. Bake in a sprayed 9 x 13 pan for 20-30 minutes.

Notes:

• For fudgey brownies, decrease flour to 1 1/2 cups, and baking powder to 1 1/2 tsp.
• This deserves a credit, but I can no longer find it on the web.