Chocolate Brownies

Lucinda,

I hope that you will forgive my rather frosty greeting, but I must say that I'm a little bit cross; either one of my children must have been mumbling when they spoke to you, or you are just trying to get back at me for my 'cat licked the cake' comment. Either way, I feel that you must allow me to set the record straight.

Firstly: it's been years since I was on a bus;

secondly: I recently jogged the Race for Life with the only moistness being the perspiration on my brow;

thirdly: the only time I've ever been referred to as a Tena Lady was when singing in the school choir; although, actually, I'm more of an Alto...

Needless to say, my latest bake was somewhat in the pursuit of comfort food: Chocolate Brownies, page 54. Half a pound of butter, a slab of chocolate and 4 eggs is hardly the stuff of restraint, but was just what I needed to smooth my ruffled feathers. The only issue with this recipe is that you have to wait for it to cool completely before you can remove it from the tin; my self-control was tested to the limits before I could assuage my feelings. But what comfort!

My batch made 12 brownies; unfortunately, as you can see from the photograph, it took a plate full of these moreish morsels before I felt mollified. Lord knows what it's done to my coronary arteries!

As the great poet, W.B Yeats, once said: "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." Well Lucy, perhaps you could tread a little more softly by kindly keeping your more 'earthy' sentiments to yourself in future!

Cathy x