welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to sunday morning
in the old cookbook show today we're
going to do a recipe out of this
publication put out by the racine
journal news
and it's a cookbook that is published by
the newspaper and so what they did is
take all of the recipes that appeared in
the newspaper took the best ones put
them into this cookbook and either sold
or gave it away to their subscribers and
it's from 1929 and it has the hole in
the top corner like so many cookbooks in
this time period you're supposed to put
a string in that hole
and just hang it on a hook in the
kitchen and when i was a little kid
there were lots of these hanging in the
kitchen at my grandmother's house
so the recipe we're going to do today i
find a little bit intriguing because of
the way it deals with the chocolate
component and it is called
chocolate delights
and i think it's kind of a take on
on a brownie
almost a brownie almost a chocolate cake
and we're gonna see how this comes
together so i'm gonna start out with
three eggs
and i'm going to lightly whisk those
together
in this bowl i have the flour to that
i'm going to add baking powder and
salt
and we'll just give that a little bit of
a stir
now to the mixing bowl i am supposed to
add the eggs and i suppose i could have
just whisked the eggs up in the mixing
jug that probably would have been
smarter and to that i'm supposed to add
grated chocolate two squares of grated
chocolate
and this kind of intrigues me a little
bit because
it would have been so much easier to
melt the chocolate into the butter as i
was melting the butter but i imagine you
would have been melting the butter on a
stovetop in this time period grating
chocolate is a bit of a pain so i've got
this
1920s cheese grater
and i found this was the easiest way
with the least amount of cleanup
i suppose you could do it in a food
processor today but the cleanup seemed a
little bit daunting to me so
there we go
in goes the chocolate now
whisk in the sugar
the melted butter
vanilla extract
and the flour and i'll put the flour in
a little bit at a time
okay it doesn't take much to mix this
together there's not too many
ingredients in there
get that
as much off of there as possible
i mean it tastes like a chocolate cake
tastes like a really sweet chocolate
cake chocolate brownie
now it asks for
english walnut nut meats that have been
chopped up so in they go um
i'm not a huge fan of walnuts
at all i don't like the taste very much
so i'm gonna give you a little bit of a
secret that was actually pecans that i
put in so you could use either nut that
you like you could probably put any nut
that you want one of the things in this
time period was that
it kind of made do with what you had in
your kitchen and if you didn't have
english walnuts you would just use
whatever nut you had or you thought
would go in it peanuts would go really
well in this too i think which brings us
to the next thing
the instructions say to put this into
a large greased shallow pan
and
in today's
time period um
you would go out and buy the correct pan
a recipe tells you that you need to put
it in an eight and three quarters inch
pan you would probably order one from
amazon and bring it in and use it
whereas i have a feeling in the 1920s
1930s depression era you would just use
whatever was in your kitchen so i went
down to the equipment room and i
normally would put it in this nine by
nine pan or an eight by eight i have
both sizes i even have seven by sevens
so you know who am i to talk about just
going and buying what you need
i would use this if this is what you
have in your kitchen a square pan don't
worry about the sides not being
short
but i also have this this is often
called a brownie pan
and i have
jelly roll pans
and i don't know which one to use i'm
inclined to use this brownie pan
so um
let me grease this up and see what
happens
okay
in goes the batter
and we'll just smooth it out now the
oven is preheated to moderate so 350
degrees i spread this thin and it only
gets baked for i think it said 12
minutes so not very long at all so let's
get this spread out
into the oven
hey glenn
hey friends so what we have here is
chocolate delights chocolate delights
it's not really it's not the color i
expected for something that was
chocolate no it looks more like it could
be a banana cake well and
i'm supposed to get 30.
those would be very tiny pieces very
tiny pieces
now
i'm very interested in this i the color
is interesting the texture is
interesting too isn't it
mm-hmm
it has only a subtle chocolate flavor to
it
which is kind of interesting because
usually you expect like chocolate
okay so most brownie recipes have
two squares of chocolate right
this had two squares of chocolate but it
was grated in rather than melted in with
the butter
so that's changed the way the chocolate
is distributed in the cake
i like the nuts so it adds a nice
texture alternate texture to the cake
the cake is quite lovely
i think i would be disappointed if you
said it's a big chocolate brownie i
think it needs a different name but it
is still a lovely cake
so true
the name is chocolate delights i was
expecting a bigger hit
of chocolate the chocolate is very
subtle and and that
the nuts are more pronounced in terms of
flavor my piece is gone so
yeah i'm not
this would be really good
with cinnamon added to it
i had thought that
instead of using baker's chocolate
create in some abuelita
oh but then you'd have to adjust the
sugar but otherwise you'd figure it out
you'd figure it out okay
so i think chocolate delights
are a delight are delightful they are
delightful
um
a change from a chocolate brownie
if you're looking for a change from
chocolate brownie out of some people
might get tired of chocolate brownie i
don't know who they might be
wouldn't be me
but this is this would be an interesting
change
and then i think the addition of
cinnamon
definitely would would
go really well with the chocolate i
think you'd also oddly add a cherry or
something that goes really well with
chocolate yeah yeah okay
i'm not complaining though this is
really good
i forget the line
and i know it ends we'll see you again
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