Kate’s Brownies – At Last

Sunday, November 22, 2020, 12:15 am — Katharine Hepburn … in her kitchen at the family home on the water at Fenwick, Old Saybrook, Connecticut … where she whipped up many a batch of brownies … Lights! Camera! Action! … Brownies! … followed her recipe … scrumptious! …

[Book … The Private World of Katharine Hepburn, 1990, pp. 34-35]

Recipe … 6 years ago … Kate’s Brownies, Nov. 17, 2014 … “The brownies don’t have a lot of height, but are supremely moist and chewy, quite fudge-like.” … BACKSTAGE SECRET: don’t use too much flour!

For baking ambiance, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1967 … livingroom tv … TCM OnDemand … not my favorite Kate, Spence film, but the only readily available.

BONUS! … Woman of the Year, 1942 … Kate’s accomplished Tess Harding is a shambles in the kitchen … (first film with Spencer Tracy) …

Kate’s Brownies

November 17, 2014 — The accomplished Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) of Woman of the Year, 1942, finds her Achilles’ heel in the kitchen … Her culinary prowess is a shambles … as Spencer Tracy discovers …

The real Kate knows her way about a pot or pan or three …

Below, in her kitchen at the family home on the water at Fenwick, Old Saybrook, Connecticut … cleaning up after dinner and whipping up chicken paprika …

Both are from the 1990 book, The Private World of Katharine Hepburn, pp. 34-37, a 1991 Christmas gift from Kevin … Kate poses with Perkins, November 2013 …

• See more adventures of Perkins the Orange Tabby and Teeny the Tuxedo Cat

Now back to Kate and her brownies … She once said, “Never quit, be yourself, and don’t put too much flour in your brownies.”

“This recipe is from an interview Katharine Hepburn gave in 1975 to Liz Smith of The Ladies Home Journal.” …  (It was also “shared in the New York Times, by one-time neighbors of Katharine Hepburn. When they brought her a batch of brownies, she said they had too much flour and were overbaked, then proceeded to share her family’s brownie recipe. The brownies don’t have a lot of height, but are supremely moist and chewy, quite fudge-like.”)

“Let’s make them … they are a cinch … put together in minutes in one saucepan and tossed in the oven….so simple.  I can even picture Katherine slamming around in the kitchen proclaiming she doesn’t have time for a more complicated recipe. ” – Noble Pig Blog …  

Circus Movie, Rain or Shine, 1930

Aug. 3, 2013 — Sometimes I really like my writing wittisitude … This one’s too good to be hidden in the TCM message board‘s archives. I’ve only posted 8 times, but what’s there is cherce, I tell ya, cherce! (stealing cherce from Spencer Tracy, Pat and Mike, 1952) …  Nov.  10, 2012:

Presenting … that circus extravaganza, Rain or Shine, 1930!

Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls of all ages!

Presenting Frank Capra’s one and only circus extravaganza of 1930, Columbia Pictures’, “Rain or Shine”!

Watch Joan Peers as Mary Rainey, young female bareback rider, manage her father’s circus after his death. The Rainey Circus! With performances twice daily, rain or shine!

Chortle at the antics of Joe Cook, Broadway musical comedy star aka “Mr. One-Man Vaudeville”, as Smiley Johnson!

Gasp in amazement that this cinematic tour de cirque is the non-muscial version of the 1928 Broadway musical, “Rain or Shine” (written by playwright turned character actor, James Gleason) … Songs? We don’t need ’em! We don’t got ’em!

Revel in the thrills, the spills, the romantic turmoil that can only be found in the world of the big top!

Steel yourselves for the firey fearsome finale!

Thanks for indulging me in some ringmaster fun. Actually, “Rain or Shine”, 1930, stands out for me because of its “real circus”, behind the scenes, on location feel. Pre-Codes are at the top of my list of favorites and “Rain or Shine” has a special spot there. Recorded it in 2009 on TCM and see that it’s in the “Frank Capra: The Early Collection” DVD set.

R.
(Lovin’ TCM since 1995. Even taught my mother to program the old VCR for me when I was living away from home and TCM-less …)