A Big Little Recipe has the smallest-possible ingredient list and big everything else: flavor, creativity, wow factor. That means five ingredients or fewer—not including water, salt, black pepper, and certain fats (like oil and butter), since we're guessing you have those covered. Psst, did you hear we’re coming out with a cookbook? We’re coming out with a cookbook!
One of the earliest brownie recipes dates back to 1896 and curiously, even disconcertingly, includes no chocolate—just butter, sugar, molasses, egg, flour, and pecan “meat,” as Fannie Farmer described it in her Boston Cooking School Cook Book.