Katharine Hepburn's Brownies

Preparation

1. Step 1

   Melt together 1 stick butter and 2 oz. unsweetened chocolate and take the saucepan off the heat.

   Step 2

   Stir in 1 cup sugar, add 2 eggs and ½ teaspoon vanilla, and beat the mixture well.

   Step 3

   Stir in ¼ cup all-purpose flour and ¼ teaspoon salt. (In the original recipe, 1 cup chopped walnuts is added here as well.)

   Step 4

   Bake the brownies in a buttered and floured 8-inch-square pan at 325°F for about 40 minutes.

   Step 5

   You can cut these brownies into squares, once they have cooled, and eat them out of the pan, but it is so much nicer to pile them on a fancy plate, from which people are going to eat them with their hands anyway. If you want to smarten up your act you can put a square of brownie on a plate with a little blob of créme fraîche and a scattering of shaved chocolate.