Wild Salvatierra Brownies
The classic recipe, created by a chicken, a dog, a small child, a village and a Gringita.
- One patty of chocolate from Salvatierra’s wild chocolate trees (or 4 squares of supermarket baking chocolate)
- ¾ cup of “butter”
- 2 cups of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
- 3 eggs (2 if using crocodile eggs)
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 cup of Brazil nuts, crushed into little pieces with a rock
- ½ cup of guaparu berries (dried cherries or cranberries work too)
- 20 liters of pure cane alcohol
Stoke up the kitchen fire, place the cooking stone in the center. Preheat the clay oven by filling it with firewood and lighting it (make sure the dog isn’t in the oven this time). In a smoke-scorched dented old pot, melt the chocolate and “butter” (lard) over the kitchen fire. When melted, remove from heat, stir with a stick, and add sugar and vanilla. Find another stick since the first one probably broke. Fish the pieces of broken stick out of the pot. Stir in eggs. Stir hard and for a while. Recruit young child to stir, convincing him it is a “fun game.”
Add flour without breaking stick again, stirring, stirring, stirring. Shoo chicken away from the nuts, stir into batter (nuts, not chicken). Add berries, and don’t let child stir anymore since he will be sticking his hand in the pot and licking the batter in gulps.Find a square metal 20 liter can of pure cane alcohol. Cut and dismantle it to form a 9”x13” baking pan. Save alcohol for village drunken bash. Grease pan with “butter”. Fill with batter. Shoo away chicken, child and dog. Clean coals out of oven with long pole, brush clean with palm leaves (fire has heated oven enough when the palm leaves combust). Put pan in oven. Brownies are done when entire village is surrounding oven because of delicious smell.
Comments
This is truly a creative recipe. One uses what one has on hand. An explosion of flavors, aromas and......
Congratulations, Julia would be proud.
Posted by: Kathryn Krubsack | August 16, 2007 09:18 PM