Cowgirls in the Kitchen – Karen Kay

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Howdy!

Here’s hoping you’ll excuse my late response.  Too much going on over the weekend, and for some reason I did not list it on my calendar that I work off of.  So, please forgive.

This following recipe is an easy one and what my grandson requested for his birthday this year…which we celebrated yesterday.

So, here we go:  This is a recipe from an older version of the Fannie Farmer cookbook, but is not now in my newest edition.  It’s a brownie recipe, but it’s one my grands love the best.  Now, I’ve made several other brownie recipes, but this one is their favorite:

 

Parker Brownies:

Oven temperature 300 degrees

2 Oz. unsweetened chocolate (can substitute 3 tblsp. cocoa and 1 tblsp. butter for each oz. of chocolate)

1/4 cup butter

1 cup suger

1 egg

1/’8 tsp. salt

1/2 cup flour

1 tsp. vanilla

Confectioners Sugar

 

Directions:

  • butter and lightly flour a 8 inch square pan
  • Bake 30 minutes — no longer
  • Decorate with confectioner’s sugar on top

Easy meezy.  This year, because my grandson had requested brownies, I made 2 batches in 2 separate pans, although you could double the recipe, using a 9 in by 13 in pan.

I’ll get this posted and then come in and say a little more.

Addition:

Yesterday, I topped one brownie on top of the other and added homemade ice cream on top.  Here’s this very, very, very, very simple and easy recipe for homemade ice cream:

3 cups heavy cream

1 cup maple syrup — it must be maple syrup and not sugar.  The sugar will not work with this recipe

2 egg yoks

1 tbsp. vanilla.

Directions:

Put in a blender or Food Processor.

Blend until firm and then freeze in a large, square pyrex bowl.  There will be a thin line of butter milk on the bottom of the ice cream.  In truth, this thin line of buttermilk my grands often say they love best.

Enjoy!

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KAREN KAY aka GEN BAILEY is the multi-published author of American Indian Historical Romances. She has written for such prestigious publishers as AVON/HarperCollins, Berkley/Penguin/Putnam and Samhain Publishing. KAREN KAY’S great grandmother was Choctaw Indian and Kay is honored to be able to write about the American Indian Culture.
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22 thoughts on “Cowgirls in the Kitchen – Karen Kay”

  6. Happy Birthday to your grandson! I can see why these are his favorite brownies, they sound delicious! Thank you for sharing the recipe. Have a great week.

    • Hi Alicia!

      Wow! Thank you for your kind words! Hope you’ll like the recipe. Like i said, it isn’t in my most recent editionof the cookbook…and they are so yummy.

  8. Wow! You know I was surprised when my grandson said the same. It’s so much easier to make brownies from scratch than a cake. With a cake, it takes me all day, considering I make my own confectioners sugar, too. Sigh…

    • HappyHappy birthday to your beautiful sweet grandson. I Hope it was absolutely amazing and full of laughter and wonderful memories. There Is just something About Brownies that gives you a cozy blanketed Warmth, Especially with a nice Cup of coffee, A little topping on that warm sweet melt in your mouth, brownie and a good book with your cat lying at your feet. Please Have a beautiful day!!

      • Hi Crystal!

        What a wonderful post. I can almost taste the brownies and coffee together now! It really was a wonderful birthday party. You know, actually as I write, I have a cat that HAS to be with me closely, not just at my feet. So I pull a drawer open on my desk and have made a little bed there for the cat, who is even now lying there next to me. : )

  10. Hi JW!

    I’m assuming you mean the top of the blog? This is all thanks to Pam Crooks who is the originator of our blog. Isn’t it great! Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this.

  12. You had me at “brownies,” Karen! I adore4 them. One thing I learned from an old friend was to create what she called “UFO Brownies.” She made them from a box mix–not sure which one, although if I make brownies from a mix, it’s always the ALDI brand. Anyway, she mixed about 1/2 cup of brown sugar, a couple of tablespoons of melted butter, and some chopped pecans together and sprinkled the mixture over the top of the brownies before she baked them… man… really delish.

  13. Hi Nan!
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    Oh, that sounds scrumptious. Sounds like a similar thing I do with coffee cake with brown sugar and butter and cinnamon with pecans. Gosh, pecans go great with short bread cookies, too. Pecan sandies I think they’re called — rolled in confectioners sugar. Yum!

  14. This sounds god. We love brownies, so I will have to try this version. We have an old fashioned hand crank ice cream churn, but haven’t used it in much too long. We used it so much when we first got it, we had to replace the wooden bucket. Luckily, the White Mountain Company’s factory was not too far for a weekend trip to get a new one. I noticed they finally made an electric motor version. Sadly, the company which was started in New Hampshire in 1872, was bought out and merged several times becoming part of Newell Brands in 2018. Making your own with a crank machine is work, but at the time we had children and friends in addition to ourselves to make it. Now the family is too old, too young, or too lazy to put in the work. It is really too bad because the ice cream is so good.
    A belated Happy Birthday to your grandson. I am certain you made sure it was a memorable and enjoyable day. Enjoy what is left of the Fall. The temperatures dropped here this week accompanied by cold rain and possible snow flurries in the mountains Thursday. I am not ready.

    • Hi Patricia!

      Gosh, I always love your posts. They are so informative. We have a hand crank ice cream maker,too, but like you we don’t use it– thus this simple and easy recipe that I make often because my husband LOVES ice cream. It was a treat with the brownies. Hope you enjoy your fall, also. As I was writing this morning, many leaves were falling,and oh,how beautiful it was. Have a wonderful day!

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