Petey’s Brownies

Makes 48 small brownies

4 (1-ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate

1⁄2 cup solid vegetable shortening

1⁄2 cup (1 stick) butter

2 cups granulated sugar

4 eggs

1⁄2 teaspoon salt

1 cup flour

2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Melt chocolate, shortening and butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add sugar and mix. Let cool 5 minutes, then beat in eggs.

Add salt to flour and add to mixture in portions, beating after each addition. Add walnuts and beat into mixture.

Pour batter into pan and bake in preheated oven 20 to 24 minutes. Remove to a rack to cool.

Prepare icing: Combine all ingredients, using enough milk or cream to provide a good spreading consistency (we used 3 to 4 tablespoons) and beating until smooth. Frost cooled brownies.

Tester notes: Icing recipe makes enough for two pans of brownies; it can be cut in half. Brownies are easier to cut if refrigerated until chilled. Newman in 1988 for seriously ill children. She plans to repeat that daredevil act this summer.

“She’s in good health,” Roscioli said. Maybe it’s the pasta sauce.

Father Dom’s Mom’s pasta sauce will be sold at Cardinali’s Bakery in Kenosha and Emerald City Catering in South Milwaukee and will also be available, along with Father Dom’s other products, shop.fatherdoms.com. Holy Spirits wines are sold at holyspiritswine.com. Both sites have information about fundraising opportunities.

The sauce will be introduced after Mass at St. Stephen’s in Oak Creek Saturday night and Sunday, Feb. 17-18, and also at evening parish missions there Feb. 19, 20 and 21.

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