Quick Nutted Brownies

The shortest distance between yourself and a panful of brownies is by way of this recipe, a direct-action number that instructs the hungry cook to put everything (well, almost everything) into one bowl, then beat. For the streamlined method, thanks go to a famous New England food expert, the late Beatrice Vaughan. This, by the way, is a brownie of the “cake” school; it’s tall in the pan under a crust of both chocolate bits and nuts.