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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