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February 28, 2007
Chocolate Brownies
Was there
a time when we didn't have brownies in the chocolate dessert category?
During the Columbian Exposition in 1892, the chef of the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago invented the brownie. Bertha Palmer wanted a dessert that women could eat without getting their hands dirty when put into box lunches. Sears and Roebuck published the first chocolate brownie recipe in their 1898 catalogue.
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Posted on February 28, 2007 11:49 PM by chocol753.
Filed in Blog Food Network under chocolate and dessert recipes.
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