Walnut Molasses Bars
Ingredients
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup lard
- ¼ cup boiling water
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup molasses
- 1 teaspoon soda
- 3 cups flour
- ½ tablespoon ginger
- ⅓ teaspoon grated nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon clove
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Chopped walnut meat
Steps
- Pour water over butter and lard, then add sugar, molasses mixed with soda, flour, salt, and spices. Chill thoroughly, roll one-fourth inch thick, cut in strips three and one-half inches long by one and one-half inches wide. Sprinkle with nut meat and bake ten minutes.
More recipes with butter, shortening, brown sugar, molasses, baking soda, flour, ginger, nutmeg, cloves or walnuts
From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.