Amish Brownies from Amish Cooking and Canning Buchanan County Iowa

• 1 cup butter (I used butter crisco)
  
• 2 cup sugar
  
• 4 eggs
  
• 1 1/2 cups sifted flour (I don't sift this or anything else for that matter)
  
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
  
• 1/4 cup cocoa
  
• pinch salt
  
• 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
  
• 1 tsp vanilla
  

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Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, well beaten.  Sift the dry ingredients and blend together.  Spread thin into a 9x13 greased pan.  Bake at 400 degrees for 15 - 20 minutes (until toothpick comes out clean)