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Brownie Challenge

I am about to share a secret. A family secret. Actually, two secrets. The delicious, chocolaty secrets of brownies. I was rifling through my loose-leaf folder full of recipes this morning, and I came upon two brownie recipes. One was in the well-known, curly handwriting of my Grandmother (my father’s mother), and one was in the neat, practical, all uppercase handwriting of my mother. So I decided to do a little Pepsi Challenge with the recipes. Brownies are super easy to make from scratch. It doesn’t matter what recipe you are using—they are just so simple. And delicious. Oh so delicious. So follow my progress through the following two brownie recipes, and hopefully you will be inspired to make your own batch! Grandmother’s Brownies: Grandmother’s version is a clas sic. She suggests that you add pecans to your brownies, but I don’t do that because I don’t like anything to interfere with the chocolate. Nuts just take up space. But kind of like pancakes, you can add anything yo