Recipe for Chocolate Drop Brownies, from the back of a Sainsbury’s packet of chocolate drops (41p in 1983): 65g (2.5 oz) butter 175g (6 oz) caster sugar 65g (2.5 oz) self-raising flour sifted with 15g (0.5 oz) cocoa 50g (2 oz) chocolate drops 2 eggs, size 3, beaten 0.5 teaspoon vanilla essence Melt butter and stir in sugar. Beat in remaining ingredients and pour into a greased and lined 20cm (8 inch) square shallow cake tin. Bake in a preheated oven 180℃, 350℉, gas Mark 4 for 40 minutes until risen an firm. Leave in tin to cool, then cut into squares. Makes 16 pieces. View high resolution

Recipe for Chocolate Drop Brownies, from the back of a Sainsbury’s packet of chocolate drops (41p in 1983):

  • 65g (2.5 oz) butter
  • 175g (6 oz) caster sugar
  • 65g (2.5 oz) self-raising flour sifted with 15g (0.5 oz) cocoa
  • 50g (2 oz) chocolate drops
  • 2 eggs, size 3, beaten

  • 0.5 teaspoon vanilla essence

    1. Melt butter and stir in sugar.
    2. Beat in remaining ingredients and pour into a greased and lined 20cm (8 inch) square shallow cake tin.
    3. Bake in a preheated oven 180℃, 350℉, gas Mark 4 for 40 minutes until risen an firm.
    4. Leave in tin to cool, then cut into squares.

Makes 16 pieces.