Five quick facts below to make your mouth water.

1. The name ‘brownie’ first appeared in a cookbook was in the 1896 version of Fannie Meritt Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cookbook. This brownie was referring to versions in the form of a small cake, not a true brownie like the one you would find today.

2. After that, he was pretty quiet in the world of brownies. It took almost 11 years for a real brownie recipe to appear, also in the Boston Cooking School Cookbook, which was the first time a brownie was published. . I’m not sure if he had color images or if he was referring to the use of organic or fair trade chocolate, but it was certainly a groundbreaking recipe.

3. One of the most popular stories about the origin of the brownie is told in the Encyclopedia or American Food and Drink, which reports that a housewife in Bangor, Maine, forgot to add baking powder to her brownie and therefore his lot did not. ‘get up properly. Always the flawless hostess, she went on and cut her now made-up brownie and served it unashamedly, claiming her newest invention.

4. Chocolate brownies are one of the few foods where there is a sharp division between the way a brownie should be prepared. Half the world loves a cake like brownie, while the other half would die without a beautiful brownie to devour.

5. Personally, I love sweet chocolate brownies, infinitely more than the cake versions.

So there you go, just a few facts about chocolate brownies for you. Now go eat!