Food TV: Paula Dean Just Used A POUND Of Butter To Make Brownies

:wow:

yes. 1 POUND of butter (4 sticks) to make ONE batch of brownies.

a pound.

1lb

1.

:drool:

:puke:

Or to keep it legal, 1 pound of oak leaves during autumn?!

If she wants something ooey-gooey, I can think of healthier things than butter in a brownie.

so marijauana brownies with a pound of butter, would jsut get you super, super stoned.

She's about decadent, old-fashioned, home-cooking recipes.

I know most of her recipes are grossly unhealthy, but it doesn't stop me from enjoying her show and, occasionally, making one of those recipes.

It would all equal itself out as to eating 1lb of butter

the RECIPE!

:hi:

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Paula Deen probably makes her ice cubes out of butter. :eyes:

don't you?

Same deal with the brownies I guess. :shrug:

That the recipe for "Maggies Decadent Brownies" on todays episode uses "one cup/2 sticks" of butter

Perhaps it was a super sized order

2 sticks for the chocolate/marshmallow topping

If I had known there was a pound of butter in them I wouldn't have eaten more than one.

and that can't be good

Twenty-five pounds of butter per square inch. Covered with chocolate so dark that light cannot escape its surface. (The other
restaurateurs lunge for the savoury picture) No, no, no!
This is just a picture. But Homer Simpson will find the
real thing both delicious and deadly.

Akira: Ah, yes, Death by Chocolate.

Chef: ... and poison, I'll stick in some poison.

from Paula Dean and they used an entire pound of butter, 1/2 for the batter and 1/2 for the frosting.

edited to add pick and if anyone wants the receipe i'll post it.

She made some yummy looking homemade ice cream too. I love that show.

You don't actually make her recipes (unless you have a death wish)-- that's what Giada DeLaurentiis' show is for. But, it's good, down-home fun to watch her!

:D

And, I'm having people over next week and will be making her filet mignon with balsamic syrup next week... yum! For dessert, I'm making Giada's goat cheese and Nutella grilled sandwiches, cook into bite-sized pieces and served with coffee and/or tea.

Come on over!

It's "puh-KAHNS", Paula.
NOT "pee-cans".
A girl from Savannah ought to know that.

We have a Youth Pastor from there and he says pee-cans too. It's pah-khans everywhere else...:wtf:

It's just a thing I have. I love me some Paula Dean, and her story is an inspiration.
Duckie

Are you saying you wouldn't eat my cooking?

I'm talking about the ones on tv...unless they used to be fat.
Duckie

Paula's recipies are there to make you say "Ohhhh."

Giada's recipies are there for you to make and eat.

that is obscene

She puts a whole stick of butter in almost everything she makes so something that actually requires butter would probably include a lot more.

I get so many requests for the recipe I have it saved on the 'puter. They are a bit complicated the first time you do it, but are sooooo worth the work!

You will need:
Double Broiler (or two sauce pans, one small enough to fit inside the
other- works just fine)
9x13 pan
One medium sized mixing bowl.
I do the whole thing by hand with a wisk, but you can use a mixer and
a spoon.

2 cups Sugar
1 cup Flour
4 oz Baking chocolate
1 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter
1 cup pecan meats (if desired)

intstruction written in CAPS are important to the brownies turning out
the way they should- Read thru the whole thing before you get started.
don't forget to crack your eggs early and set them aside while the
choc. and butter melt- brings them to room temp just in time
(meaning:after the chocolate mixture has cooled a bit).

Preheat oven to 350

melt in a double broiler:
-1/2 cup butter
-4 oz chocolate (unsweetened)
COOL THIS MIXTURE- if not your brownies will be heavy and dry.

Beat until light in color and foamy in texture:
-Four eggs (AT ROOM TEMPERATURE)
-1/2 teaspoon salt

Add GRADUALLY & CONTINUE BEATING UNTIL WELL CREAMED:
-2 cups sugar
-1 teaspoom vanilla

With a few swift strokes, combine the cooled chocolate mixture into
the eggs and sugar. USE A SPOON, NOT A MIXER FOR THIS!. Before the
mixture becomes uniformly colored, fold in -again by hand:
-1 cup sifted all purpose flour
Before the flour is uniformly colored, stir in gently:
-1 cup pecan meats (if desired)

Bake in a 9x13 in pan for about 25 min - cut when cool. wrapped
individually in foil, they should keep for 3-5 days. Yummy with whipped
cream!

Joy of Cooking, Irma Rombauer & Marion Rombauer Becker
Brownies Cockaigne, pg. 653
Copyright, 1964, Published, 1971

I usually cook for about 23 minutes so the middle stays gooey and
uncooked. YUM! messy, but tasty!

:drool:

My grandfather ate butter, cream, cheese everyday for 85 years. Then he died. Never had any problems with cholestrol.

BRING IT ON!!!!!

:D

on edit: I use a pound and a half when I make spanikopita.

I think so.

not just because of her food, but because she had Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter on her show. :loveya:

No she don't.
Recipe calls for a gallon of heavy cream, bygod there's AT LEAST a solid gallon in there.
A little more just for good measure.
"It makes it so much RICHER!"
yes mam
;-)

just reading the OP. :crazy:

with them, i did not want them in my house.

for the brave:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_31307,00.html

that's why I love Ms. Deen. She doesn't play around with her solid fats.

even with the heavy editing she is forever bubblegumming it.

BTW- the Barefoot Contessa is nothing but an offseason sqatter in the Hamptons and psychotic to boot-she makes meals for her imaginary friends.

More than Semi-passed out with Sandra Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9u_EVfjSFo

seems like a fun person to be around. But her cooking is something else. Occasionally I will watch a few minutes of her show. Very rarely has anything she made appealed to me. I agree that one should use real butter, real mayo, etc. But she uses too much. Butter gives a nice flavor to many foods, but 4 sticks is over the top. I want flavors to be balanced. And frankly to me, some of the stuff she makes looks disgusting. Like the casserole type dishes where she dumps in some cheese, a can of soup, butter, mayo, milk and God knows what else and ends up with this big tray of slop. Yummmy....NOT. She'd make a fun neighbor but I probably wouldn't ask her for any recipes.

I forget the name of it, but it features a really skinny bleach blond who basically takes a bunch of pre-packaged ingredients and throws them together in a cake pan or casserole dish and then tosses some cheese or candy sprinkles on top, and makes some display out of alumnum foil, and Voila! And she always makes a cocktail, "for the adults".

It's a truly weird show and the food looks to have about zero nutritional value, but is high on the kitsch!

are referring to. At least Paula does most of her own cooking. I'd say maybe 15-20% is store bought. The ding a ling from semi home made is not a cook at all in my opinion. At least Paula likes to cook.

Well, most of a pound. Margerine and oil just don't work on phyllo dough as well as butter does.

I surprised she didn't use lard!

Unfortunately, using a pound of butter in your brownies will make you look like, well, Paula Dean.

That's a cake that is very brownie-like (dense) and is topped with a marshmallow-fudge icing. The only difference is you use Coke instead of some of the sugar in the cake and the icing.

My mom used to make that for big family events all the time. Mmm...