Open Source Brownies

Apparently I make good brownies.

I got to the office just after lunch today to be greeted with sad pouty faces, forlorn at the absence of the previous batch, and my failure to bring a fresh one.

You will need the following dependencies:

  • 4 oz. margarine, (I use nuttelex)
  • 1 block and 1 row of Lindt 85% chocolate, shattered (about 120g)
  • 1 cup raw sugar (organic raw sugar seems to be finer grains)
  • Very small pinch salt (or a half rotation on my rock salt grinder)
  • 2 tsp. vanilla essence
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup buckwheat flour .

And finally, here’s the source code:

  1. Melt margarine and dissolve chocolate chunks into it until smooth (May require more heating).
  2. Add the sugar and salt and vanilla to the chocolate and margarine, and combine roughly.
  3. Making sure the mixture is not too warm, add the eggs.
  4. Slowly fold the flour in until the colour is consistent.
  5. Scrape the sticky mess into a shallow rectangular dish and bake at 180′C/350′F for 30-35 minutes.
  6. The brownies should be fudgy, not dry or cakey — do not overcook!
  7. Allow to cool properly, then slice into blocks.
  8. Apply to workplace for instant praise, or reserve for bribery.

brownies

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17 Responses to Open Source Brownies

  1. Arand says:

    Hmm, can’t help but notice your dependencies include proprietary components (Lindt). Is this really in the spirit of open source? ;-p

  2. Jack says:

    Hmm…..

    I KNOW that I have the processing capacity handling quite a few of those.

    Downloading should indeed be smooth.

    Is there a live version I can download – it’s far more efficient for me, it would save me a lot of work.

    ;)

  3. I wholeheartedly recommend experimenting with white chocolate and raspberries, it’s a throughly delicious experience for the taste buds.

    • melissa says:

      Yeah, I need to get me some dried raspberries. Also, some old style hard peppermint candy.

      Sadly, white chocolate is against office policy because it fails to contain sufficient cocoa solids — qualifying it as cruel and unusual punishment.

  4. Steve Dodier says:

    Is there any place where we can get the binaries ? Can’t find it on apt, and I’m hungry now…

  5. Bugsbane says:

    But what license are they published under?

    There are rumors that Apple are hoping it’s BSD so they can steal your code and start a brownie making empire without giving you any credit or improvements…

    Microsoft are being cagey about whether they’re going to sue for this because brownies aren’t covered under their “community promise”…

    The folks over at mozilla are cool with it because you didn’t use their branding and make them “Firefox Brownies”

    Trolltech have mentioned they have some customers interested making some private proprietry versions of your brownies. Would you be interested in dual licensing?

    The FSF are launching a campaign against how evil your brownies are. After all… they don’t have beards!

  6. ethana2 says:

    Eww, those delicious brownies are still /BROWN/, can’t you CHANGE the THEME ALREADY!?

  7. rolandixor says:

    @ethana2 I’m brown so that’ll go good for me. any chance of a blue and white theme? :P yummy!

    Anyone want a recipe for open source comedy? I’ll release under the laugh out loud license.

  8. Arand says:

    Well… they publish their libraries all right, but what about the source code itself?

  9. Jason Moller says:

    Teaspoons and cups? Please use SI units so that your recipe can be replicated.

  10. Andy says:

    Yum! Err, I mean Apt!

  11. Martin says:

    As this is open source, you should do your own branch of the source.

    Anyways, this is public domain, right? :)

  12. danny says:

    Hmmm, mayhaps, an apt-get upgrade could be achieved with the following suggested packages:

    Marshmallows
    Chocolate Chips
    Caramel

  13. rolandixor says:

    kinda funny, my posts come up as being from safari on mac, I’m using liferea on ubuntu :)

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