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Joining the ranks of Smith holiday desserts - a big platter of these wonderful brownies are really hard to beat! Recipe follows. It has been very hard to find a great scratch brownie recipe. It is one of those things that is actually better from a - UGH - mix. I have tested many and it is always disappointing – wasted ingredients and time. For me, this recipe is the exception I have been looking for. This brownie if fudgy, rich and delicious. We made this over the weekend to go with our homemade pizza night. Served with brown sugar whipped cream and a garnish of dark chocolate and raspberry sauce. They were so good!! Ultimate Fudge Brownie - 8 ounces Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips 1 cup (2 sticks) Butter 2 cups firmly packed Dark Brown Sugar 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract 4 large Eggs 2 cups All Purpose Flour ½ teaspoon Baking Powder 1 teaspoon Salt 1 ½ teaspoons Cinnamon 1 teaspoon Espresso Granules 1 cup Dark Chocolate Chips Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9 x 1...

David's Fall 2014 article for A Primitive Place & Country Journal features an amazing piece our potters made which pays tribute to the Shenandoah redware style. For the history of Shenandoah redware and for more pictures of this piece and our process of creating it, get a hold of the Fall 2014 issue of A Primitive Place! For more information, visit  http://www.aprimitiveplace.org/

This heavily researched and highly decorated pot is one of our finest pieces yet. Dedicated to one of America's most influential founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin was a leading inventor, musician, postmaster general, grandmaster, abolitionist, writer, scientist, and politician - just to name a few. This pot tells the story of Benjamin's colorful life and legacy using a combination of highly intricate redware techniques and our serious dedication to accurately representing our proud revolutionary history.