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- Hey y'all, you know just lately I've been asking y'all,
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if you had a recipe that
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you and your family have loved for years,
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or just loved in the last year,
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to share 'em with me.
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And I'm so happy to be able to give y'all credit for 'em.
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I'd just love to know what other families,
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So I'm getting some response
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and I'm going to read this letter as quick as I can to you.
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Hey Paula, I love watching your videos.
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I usually watch them while I'm making breakfast.
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Thanks for making me laugh, it is so needed this year.
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I met you in Durham, North Carolina about 15 years ago,
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I had my mom and baby girl with me.
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You held baby Madeline,
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and now she's learning to drive,
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Anyway, I want to share a recipe
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for my grandmother Evelyn Brown,
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She passed away several years ago
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but one way that we like to remember her by
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is the good food she made for us,
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and the way she prepared a meal for her family.
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This recipe is for Chew Bread.
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I don't know why she named it that.
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It's more like a cookie bar,
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I have kept the recipe,
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I have kept the recipe on a Post-it note all this time,
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because I wrote it down when I was talking to her
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I thank you so much, Lauren,
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for sharing this recipe with me and,
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and all of our friends out there.
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It just, it just makes me feel good to know
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that other people have wonderful memories
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like I have of being in the kitchen
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with mamas and grandmamas and aunts and friends.
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So we are fixing to make your grandmamas, Chew Bread.
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And again, I thank you Lauren.
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So here we go and plus it's real easy.
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You forgot to say that didn't you Lauren?
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Lauren? Lauren. It's Lauren, not Lauran.
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Alright, so preheat oven to 300 degrees, we've done that.
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Butter a 13 by 9 by 2 pan, we've done that,
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combine one stick of melted butter,
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one box of light brown sugar,
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and two cups of self-rising flour.
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Now this sounds a little like my Aunt Glennis's chewies.
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- I just made some kind of recent-
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- [Eddie] Right, I think we put coconut I think in ours.
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- [Woman] It had icing in too.
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- No, not on the Chewy's,
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- [Eddie] The brownies had the icing
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If everything wasn't enough, there was an icing.
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So that's, this bag is equivalent to one box.
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I love stirring recipes.
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You don't have to collapse a big old mixer or anything.
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and then pour those in.
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So it looks like this might be-
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all right now, that was plain flour to what-
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- [Woman] Self rising
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- No. Two cups of self-rising.
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Okay, so it is going to rise up.
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And Lauren said bake for about 40 minutes
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it's tempting to cut into them,
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when they come out of the oven,
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but wait, they get sort of crackly tops,
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then you can cut them to squares
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Keep making those videos Paula.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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It calls for an eight ounce bag of semi-sweet chocolate,
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but there's no such thing as an eight ounce bag anymore,
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So I'm going to leave a little bit in there.
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Calls for three fourths of a cup of chopped pecans.
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Yeah, this looks like my chewies.
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Chew bread, I love it.
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now I'm going to stir in our two cups of self-rising flour
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and let's see how much vanilla, one teaspoon.
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That's kinda my teaspoon Lauren.
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I have a big teaspoon.
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Oh my gosh, I can't wait for these to come out of the oven.
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So, you know, I, like I said, just lately,
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I have been requesting if y'all would share your family
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of a pineapple cake the other day
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that somebody sent to me,
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it is out of this world
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and it's like this, you just mix it up
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- [Eddie] And it is gone.
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- [Eddie] That thing went fast
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- It was gone last night.
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- It was one little edge like that left and I ate that.
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And I'm going to be making another one.
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I'm going to make another one because that was too good.
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- [Eddie] And I had it for breakfast.
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- That's where my cake went.
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Oh, I'm going to make one this afternoon.
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If I've got a can of pineapple.
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Calls like 20 ounce can of pineapple.
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Now who sent that to me?
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- [Woman] Well, you might not need to after this.
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I think I hear Michael coming in.
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it really does look like my aunt Glennis's chewies.
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Grandmothers have left us with
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lotta good memories over the years.
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You know, I just hope
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What she used to make for us?
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Cause' that's what it's all about is,
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keeping the family going.
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With all your family traditions.
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So in the oven this goes,
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40 minutes Lauren says,
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and that's what I'm going to put it on.
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That looks matching mighty good.
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It doesn't look like bread either does it?
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Okay, we got Lauren's grandmother's Chew bread.
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We cook it for 40 minutes and she said,
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now you gon' wanna cut into it,
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Because it's so much better
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- [Eddie] I love the top
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- [Woman] And it crinkles on the top
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- It's going to crinkle as it cools.
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So I'm going to do as Lauren requested,
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I'm going to let it cool before I cut it,
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but I'll be sharing it with y'all.
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Hey Lauren, I have done exactly as you told me to do
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and we have let these get cold,
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grandmamas chew bread.
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It reminds me very much of my aunt Glennis's chewy cakes.
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Okay, I can't wait Lauren.
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- [Woman] Brown sugar
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All I can say is keep them cards and letters coming kids.
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Thank you for sharing Lauren.
