Mer brownies

I Amerika är det klassiska mellanmålet, när ungarna kommer hem från skolan, ett stort glas mjölk och något läskigt bakverk, småkaka (som inte är så liten), en brownie eller annat kaffe-brödsaktigt. 

Just när jag skriver detta, slår det mig att jag nog inte vet hur det klassiska mellanmålet ser ut i Sverige. I vår familj har det varit en macka med dryck efter smak, det vill säga te, kaffe eller mjölk. När jag börjar tänka efter, blir jag mer och mer osäker, kanske får svenska barn också  bullar och småkakor efter skolan. I den mån nu svenska barn kommer direkt hem efter skolan, till en väntande ”hemmamamma”.

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Think what a better world it would 

be if we all, the whole world, had 

cookies and milk about three o'clock 

every afternoon and then lay down 

on our blankets for a nap.

...................... .................. Barbara Jordan

I min hög med återfunna receptkort finns det här receptet, som är en småkaka och inte den fyrkant, man vanligen tänker på när man talar om brownies.

Dunkable Brownie

170 g semi sweet chocolate 

150 g butter

¾ cup cocoa

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups toasted chopper walnuts

Melt chocolate and butter. Stir until chocolate is completely melted and smooth.

Stir sugar into chocolate until well blended. Mix in eggs. Stir in flour, cocoa, baking powder and vanilla. Stir in nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls, 1½ inches apart, onto ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 12 minutes or until set, in 160C. Do not overbake! Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet. Cool completely on wire racks. Store in airtight container.

Makes about 3 dozen.

dunk  vb

1. (Cookery) to dip (bread, etc.) in tea, soup, etc., before eating

2. to submerge or be submerged in liquid

[from Pennsylvania Dutch, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn; see duck2, tinge] 

duck 2  

v. ducked, duck·ing, ducks

v.tr.

1. To lower quickly, especially so as to avoid something: ducked his head as the ball came toward him.

2. To evade; dodge: duck responsibility; ducked the reporter's question.

3. To push suddenly under water. See Synonyms at dip.

4. Games To deliberately play a card that is lower than (an opponent's card).

v.intr.

1. To lower the head or body.

2. To move swiftly, especially so as to escape being seen: ducked behind a bush.

3. To submerge the head or body briefly in water.

4. To evade a responsibility or obligation. Often used with out: duck out on one's family.

5. Games To lose a trick by deliberately playing lower than one's opponent.

n.

1. A quick lowering of the head or body.

2. A plunge into water.

[Middle English douken, to dive, possibly from Old English *ducan; akin to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch duken.]