Author Archives: Garrett Wollman

Browniefest part 8: Brooke Dojny’s daughter Maury’s “Best Brownies”

Posted on 2015-06-21

Brooke Dojny’s The New England Cookbook (Harvard Common Press, 1999) is one of those reference works (like the more famous Joy of Cooking) that I consult fairly frequently when I’m thinking about something I want to cook, but rarely actually … Continue reading →

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Browniefest part 7: An update on King Arthur Flour’s “Double Fudge Brownies”

Posted on 2015-06-20

I’ve already written two posts about “Double Fudge Brownies”, a whole-wheat recipe from King Arthur Flour’s Whole Wheat Baking, including a complete walk-through, so I don’t really have much to add here. However, I did redo the nutritional analysis to … Continue reading →

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Browniefest part 6: Ovenly’s “Salty Super Dark Chocolate Brownies” and “Cinnamon & Ancho Chile Brownies”

Posted on 2015-06-20

I made two different recipes from Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin’s Ovenly (Harlequin, 2014): “Salty Super Dark Chocolate Brownies” and “Cinnamon & Ancho Chile Brownies”. While I’ve had my complaints about this cookbook before, both of these recipes turned out … Continue reading →

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Browniefest part 5: Joanne Chang’s “Fudgy Mascarpone Brownies”

Posted on 2015-06-19

This was the first recipe I had done from Chang’s latest book, Baking with Less Sugar. As I’ve told numerous people, this book should really have been titled Baking with Less Granulated Sugar; the emphasis is not on reducing sugar … Continue reading →

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Browniefest part 4: Two Cook’s Illustrated recipes

Posted on 2015-06-19

Two of the recipes I made for Browniefest came from Cook’s Illustrated: the first, by Andrea Geary, was originally published in the magazine in 2010, and the second (no author attribution) was published some six years earlier. I found both … Continue reading →

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Browniefest part 3: Alice Medrich’s “Best Cocoa Brownies” and “New Classic Chocolate Brownies”

Posted on 2015-06-18

The two recipes I made from Alice Medrich’s Seriously Bitter Sweet (Artisan, 2013) were “Best Cocoa Brownies” (p. 69) and “New Classic Chocolate Brownies” (p. 67). They were so similar that I didn’t even bother to take pictures of the … Continue reading →

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Browniefest part 2: Techniques and Ingredients

Posted on 2015-06-18

In my original post, “Thinking about Brownies“, I gave a list of the recipes I was looking to try, and I ended up doing all but two of them. Since I was going to be taking a week off from … Continue reading →

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Browniefest

Posted on 2015-06-17

After a week of baking (on my part, not so much the other bakers’), we finally held Browniefest on Monday, June 15. I brought 14 batches of brownies to the office on Sunday: …but the final batch, Emily Luchetti’s “Black … Continue reading →

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Dear considerate Massachusetts drivers

If there’s a long line of cars behind you and you stop to let me turn across traffic, thanks, the courtesy is appreciated. If, on the other hand, there is no one behind you, I am already planning to make … Continue reading →

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Recipe quick takes: Four & Twenty Blackbirds’ Lavender Blueberry Pie

Posted on 2015-06-10

Blueberries are one of the finest flavors of summer, and even though they’re not yet in season here, big containers of them have been showing up in the supermarkets lately, imported from other states with earlier seasons. Meanwhile, it is … Continue reading →

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