My life is filled with memories of cooking and baking.  These memories start in my earliest memories of childhood, helping my parents in the kitchen.  The first recipe that I ever memorized, and made by myself was Brownies.  I was 5 or 6 and, with supervision of my mother, I made “our” brownie recipe.  I also baked this recipe with my father.  It is this brownie recipe that I chose to put in our Sunday School cookbook in 1976.  It is a very straight forward Brownie recipe that my mother got out of the Betty Crocker Cooky Book.  When I was little I used to thumb through every page vowing that “one day” I would make every recipe in the book.  I have not.

My mother still has the Betty Crocker Cooky Book and the “brownie pan” that I used to bake my brownies in.  I thumbed through the book yesterday morning when I was having coffee with my mother.  It is listed on the page of “The Best Cooky of 1920-1930”.  I don’t know if it really was the best “cooky” of the Roaring ‘20’s, but I do know it is one of the best memories of baking that I have.

I think I will go throw on some Bessie Smith and make these with my girls!  Have a Roaring good day.