Scotch Bars recipe
This recipe is from an old cookbook, All About Home
Baking, General Foods Corporation, 1963.
SCOTCH BARS
A kissin' cousin to Brownies with a butterscotch flavor
and a top well peppered with Baker's chips.
1 cup sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon Calumet Baking Powder
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1/3 cup shortening
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon hot water
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup Baker's Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Sift flour, baking powder, soda, and salt together.
Add nuts and mix well. Melt shortening in saucepan;
remove from heat. Add sugar and water; mix well.
Cool slightly. Add egg and vanilla and blend.
Then add flour mixture, a small amount at a time, mixing
well after each addition. Pour into greased 9x9x2-inch
pan. Sprinkle chips over top. Bake in moderate
oven (350°F.) 20 to 25 minutes.
(Do not overbake.) Cool in pan. Then cut into
bars. Makes about 2 dozen bars.
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