Jo Walton ([info]papersky) wrote,
@ 2008-11-22 10:36:00
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Maple Walnut "Brownies"
Because if I don't write it down, I'll forget. They're not real brownies because they don't have chocolate in, but "blondies" is a silly name.

Pre-heat oven to 180 C, Gas 5.

Melt 8 ounces of marge or unsalted butter.

While butter is melting, put into mixing bowl:

14 ounces of brown sugar (no really)
1 tablespoon maple syrup

When butter is melted, mix it in with a wooden spoon. When mixed, add two eggs. When eggs are mixed, sift in 8 ounces of SR (patisserie) flour. On top of the flour, add a big handful of broken walnut bits. (Or you could use pecans, but Z says he doesn't like pecans, and actually walnuts are cheaper.) Fold in with a metal spoon, and pour into a rectangular oven dish.

Bake in centre of oven for half an hour, until solid and a knife comes out cleanly.

This is my favourite kind of recipe, really easy and ridiculously delicious. Also, walnuts are good for you. They're at their absolute best about half an hour after they've come out of the oven when they are still a bit warm, so if you make them so they come out of the oven just before dinner they make an excellent dessert. They're also pretty good cold. If there's only one of you, you can make half this much if you have a half sized oven dish. They're vegetarian, and if you used pyrex dishes and a kosher wooden spoon (or paint stirrer) they could easily be kosher.


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[info]tournevis
2008-11-22 03:43 pm UTC (link)
You know they are still brown. They're just lighter brown.

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[info]kalmn
2008-11-22 03:59 pm UTC (link)
in minnesota, we call those bars. well, we call them blondies, but the name for the class of things they are is bars.

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[info]mrissa
2008-11-22 05:44 pm UTC (link)
Yah, I was going to say that, too.

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[info]minnehaha
2008-11-22 04:25 pm UTC (link)
How maple-y are they?

K. [I typo'ed "ample" for "maple", but I think I have the sense of how ample they are]

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[info]papersky
2008-11-22 05:25 pm UTC (link)
There's just a hint of maple flavour all through them. I used amber maple syrup from the market.

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[info]sylvia_rachel
2008-11-22 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Mmmmmm.

I've become a big fan of things with walnuts in, because I'm not allergic to them (I am allergic to pecans, hazelnuts, almonds, and chestnuts. It sucks). You can even make pecan pie with walnuts, and it's incredibly delicious.

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[info]thomasyan
2008-11-22 06:12 pm UTC (link)
8 ounces of SR (patisserie) flour

Are all the ounces in the recipe volume, not weight?

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[info]papersky
2008-11-22 06:27 pm UTC (link)
There's no difference. An ounce is an ounce. An ounce is 28 grammes.

Or do you mean fluid ounces? You can't weigh solid things in fluid ounces though.

Confused.

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[info]papersky
2008-11-22 06:54 pm UTC (link)
If this answers your question, fourteen ounces of sugar is a cup and a half, and eight ounces of flour is also a cup and a half. (How anyone can think a cup is a sensible measure of anything is beyond me.) So I guess I mean by weight, though actually I "weigh" my dry ingredients in a measuring cylinder marked in flour, sugar, raisins etc.

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[info]thomasyan
2008-11-23 07:46 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! I had remembered that you were probably using weight, not volume, and wanted to double check. I see that I phrased my question backwards, as if I were expecting volume to be the answer.

Where did you get your measuring cylinder from? Or, maybe more usefully, what brand is it?

P.S. Unrelated, [info]rachelmanija just read The Prize in the Game.

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[info]papersky
2008-11-24 01:02 am UTC (link)
Thanks for the link, very interesting.

I bought my measuring cylinder in a kitchen shop in Ledbury in Herefordshire, and I bought the previous one I owned, which was identical, in a kitchen shop in Newcastle Emlyn in Ceredigion. Really, you can get them anywhere...

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[info]beamjockey
2008-11-22 06:14 pm UTC (link)
"Brownies" is not a silly name?

(And I take it that the Cherryh was satisfying?)

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[info]papersky
2008-11-22 06:28 pm UTC (link)
I have very complex thoughts about the Cherryh which I'll eventually be posting at Tor.com.

Brownies is an accustomed name.

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[info]noveldevice
2008-11-23 09:54 am UTC (link)
I've lost your poem The Assumption of St Jerome again (I think the bookmark is on my machine in Kansas, not this one).

Have you taken it down, or am I just inept with google tonight?

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[info]papersky
2008-11-23 02:23 pm UTC (link)
http://papersky.livejournal.com/296083.html

In theory, all my poetry LJ entries can be found through Memories and Poetry. Sometimes I forget, but I didn't with that one, that's how I found it.

It is going to be in my new chapbook Sibyls and Spaceships but it'll also remain right here.

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[info]crookedfeet
2008-12-02 03:17 am UTC (link)
I just saw this, and thought you might like this recipe for maple cookies which I stumbled over awhile back.
http://habeasbrulee.com/2007/03/18/chewy-maple-cookies/
If you half the flour, they make great creamhorn things too.

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[info]papersky
2009-01-17 05:44 pm UTC (link)
Use demarara, it's worth it.

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[info]papersky
2009-02-20 04:28 pm UTC (link)
It's fine to use a whisk instead of a wooden spoon if you normally do for sponge cake.

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