fromBusiness Insider
1 week agoThe Chicago hotel that invented the brownie in 1893 is still serving the original recipe. It was nothing like a boxed mix
But a Chicago hotel serves one 1893 recipe that will be a lot more familiar to today's tastes: the brownie. The Palmer House hotel, which is still open today, developed the first-ever brownie in its kitchen as part of the preparations for the World's Columbian Exposition, or Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. The decadent dessert was inspired by a Gilded Age socialite's quest for a treat that could be easily transported.
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