When I saw this recipe in my files I just smiled with the memory of our Hershey's brownies. These days I make my family's favorite brownies with a dark chocolate cake mix as it's starting base or with melted semi-sweet or unsweetened baking bars. But! I always keep recipes like this on hand to fall back on when I don't have baking squares on hand because really, brownies made in almost any form are perfectly delicious!
Brownies
3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2/3 cup oil
1/2 cup boiling water
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1-1/3 cup flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
Stir cocoa and baking soda in a bowl. Blend in oil. Add boiling water and stir just until blended. Add sugar, vanilla and eggs and mix by hand. Add the flour and salt, mix just until moist and pour into a 9x13 pan that you have only greased the bottom (not sides) of. Bake 35 minutes in a preheated 350 degree oven until the edges are firm but the center is just set. Do not over bake! This is why brownies get dry and hard. Better to undercook by a few minutes than to over cook!
