Nut Bars

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• ¼ cup butter
• ¼ cup boiling water
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup flour
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons English walnut meat, finely chopped
• Halves of walnuts or almonds

Steps

1. Caramelize two tablespoons sugar, add butter and water, and boil two minutes. Remove from fire, add remaining sugar, flour mixed with salt, and walnut meat. Spread as Rolled Wafers, crease in two-inch squares, and decorate with nut meats. Bake in a slow oven, and remove from pan at once.

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.