Bars for Orpha

I'll be bringing bars for Orpha's funeral on Saturday.

It's not enough.  In a situation like this, nothing is enough.

But I'll be bringing bars for Orpha's funeral on Saturday as my own way of living out the hospitality and grace Orpha radiated in her whole life.

I'll be bringing bars for Orpha's funeral on Saturday as a way of honoring a woman who constantly reached out her hand to others.

I'll be bringing bars for Orpha's funeral on Saturday because I'm still a young(ish) church lady, and I want to grow up to be an old church lady someday.

I'll be bringing bars for Orpha's funeral on Saturday since mourning the dead also means feeding the living.

I'll be bringing bars for Orpha's funeral on Saturday in the hope that they might taste something like the sweetness of a life well-lived.

I'll be bringing bars for Orpha's funeral on Saturday that will mark us with slightly greasy fingers and the crumbs of community.

I'll be bringing bars for Orpha's funeral on Saturday because the resurrection is coming, and it will be a feast. 

I'll be bringing bars then, too.

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Straight out of Betty Crocker's Cookie Book (1986 edition):

Butterscotch Brownies
1/4 cup shortening or vegetable oil
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped nuts

As I'll actually make them:



1/2 C. canola oil

2 C. packed light brown sugar

2 eggs

2+ tsp. vanilla

1 2/3+ C. flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1 1/2 tsp. salt

no nuts (at a potluck gathering, you never know who'll have an allergy)

Bake at 350 in a greased (liberally cooking sprayed)

10x15 glass dish for 25 minutes until largely set. 

As with any brownies, the cardinal rule is Do Not Overbake.