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ENTITY reports on national brownie day

National Brownie Day is honestly a special day. You can celebrate it by getting free brownies from bakeries!

We can all pretty much agree that brownies are one of the best chocolate desserts. (And if you’re a serious sweet lover, slutty brownies may be just for you.)

But as great as this dessert is, not everyone knows the history of brownies. So to celebrate this day, here are some fun facts about brownies.

1 Brownies came from a chef in Chicago.

ENTITY reports on national brownie day

The story starts when Bertha Palmer, an American businesswoman, asked a chef at Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel during the late 19th century to make her a special dessert. She wanted to create a dessert for the ladies attending the Chicago 1893 World Fair, and Palmer wanted the dessert to be easily eaten out of boxed lunches, but also be cake-like.

2 The first published recipe for brownies came from a 1904 cookbook.

A lot of people believe the first recipe for chocolate brownies on is found in the Service Club of Chicago’s 1904 “Cook Book.” All the recipes in the cookbook were contributed by club members. The recipe was called “Bangor Brownies,” referring to an unconfirmed story that brownies originated in Bangor, Maine.

But in 1899, a recipe for chocolate brownies was found in “Machias Cookbook,” a Maine community-created cookbook. The recipe came from a woman in Wisconsin. But, no one knows how she got her recipe into a Maine cookbook.

And if you’re looking to recreate one of the first brownie recipes, this was the recipe in the cookbook:

“Cream one-half cup of butter, one cup sugar. Add two squares (one-quarter cake) Baker’s chocolate, melted, two eggs, one-half cup pastry flour and one-half cup chopped walnuts. Spread on baking tins and bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven.”

3 No one knows where brownies got their name.

ENTITY reports on national brownie day

One rumor is that the name comes from a 1897 Sears and Roebuck catalog that included elf shaped sweets called “brownies.” Others believe the name came from Palmer Cox’s children’s book, “The Brownies: Their Book,” which was published in 1887. This theory, however, isn’t proven.

Eventually, the name was used to refer to Girl Scouts, a type of Kodak camera and a chewy cake-like sweet.

4 Slutty brownies were originally called the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie n’ Oreo Fudge Brownie Bar.

In 2011, food bloggers Kevin and Amanda created the recipe for slutty brownies. Amanda posted a recipe for her invention on their blog. She explained the sweet dessert as a “ridiculous, indulgent, outrageous, illegal in 48 states, totally wonderful ultimate layered cookie and brownie treat.”

So where did the treat get its new name as slutty brownies?

The first record of these brownies being called slutty brownies are in The Londoner. The author of the article called them slutty brownies because “they’re oh so easy, and more than a little bit filthy.”

5 The first recipe for brownies was actually for blondies.

ENTITY reports on national brownie day

A lot of people assume the first recipe for brownies to appear was Fanny Farmer’s recipe in the 1896 edition of “The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook.” But, this recipe didn’t include chocolate, so it became known as “blondies.”

It’s a common misconception, but true brownie lovers understand the difference between chocolate brownies and blondies. Chocolate, duh.

Overall, the history of brownies is a long and confusing timeline, but now that you know it, you can celebrate National Brownie Day and the creation of these sweet treats.

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