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Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F with rack in middle. Lightly grease or butter pan and line with crisscrossed sheets of parchment or foil, leaving a 1-inch overhang.
• Melt chocolate with butter in a large metal bowl set over a pan of simmering water, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Remove bowl from pan and let cool 5 minutes.
• Add sugar and whisk well.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, whisking well after each addition, and whisk mixture vigorously until smooth and cohesive.
• Whisk in vanilla and salt.
• Add flour and cocoa and stir with whisk until incorporated and batter is smooth.
• Fold in nuts with a rubber spatula.
• Spread batter evenly in pan and bake until a wooden pick comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
• Cool brownies completely in pan on a rack.
• To remove them easily from the pan, use the parchment overhangs to lift the brownies, still on the parchment, from the pan. Cut brownies into serving pieces.