Aunt Ruth's Brownies

Colleen Gentleman Minturn

• 1 stick oleo or butter
• 3 heaping tbsp cocoa
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 scant cup flour
• � cup nuts (or raisins or chocolate chips)

(I always double the recipe and bake in a 9x13 pan.)

Melt oleo in saucepan - stir in cocoa, then sugar, vanilla & eggs. Add flour and nuts and put in greased 8x8 pan and bake at 350� about 15 minutes or so. Don't overbake. Sprinkle with powdered sugar or ice with chocolate frosting.

Frosting:

• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• 2 tbsp oleo
• brewed coffee to moisten