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Chocolate Brownies

1 cupful sugar ½ cupful flour 6 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 1 cupful chopped English 2 eggs walnut meats 2 squares chocolate 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract ½ teaspoonful salt 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water Cream Crisco and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, chocolate dissolved in boiling water, salt, flour, vanilla, and nuts. Divide and spread thin in 2 Criscoed square pans and bake in slow oven from twenty to twenty-five minutes. Cut in strips and serve with ice cream. These are a cross between cookies and heavy cake.

Sufficient for fifty brownies.

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