Chinese Chews

This would have been a great favorite of brother David......NOT!  Somehow he picked up an aversion to coconut.  Ah well.  The more for the rest of us.

1 c. flour
1 c. butter
1/2 c. b sugar (editor: brown sugar)
1/4 t. salt

Mix all the above and pat in pan 10x13 inches and back 10 minutes at 375 degrees.

2 eggs beaten
1/2 c. b sugar
1 c. coconut
1 c. walnuts
1 t. vanilla
2 T. flour
1 c. dates

Spread on first mixture and bake 25 minutes.

Peppernuts & raisin & nuts (Aunt Agnes)

1 1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. butter
3 eggs
1 c. raisens chopped
1 c. nut meats
1 t. soda
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. vanilla
 3 c. flour

Cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs and mix well.  Add nuts, raisins, and soda dissolved in hot water.  Sift spices with flour and chill overnight.  Form rolls and slice.
375 degrees for 10 minutes.

Editor:  Pretty sure it should be "sift spices with flour, add to creamed mixture, and chill overnight."

Butterbrickle Bars

From the kitchen of Aunt Martha*
6-25-93

Bake 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes

1 yellow cake mix
1/3 c. butter or shortening
1 egg

Mix together and pat into bottom of 9x13 pan

1 can Eagle Brand milk
3/4 c bits of brickle
1 c chopped pecans
1 egg
1 t vanilla

Mix together, pour over cake mixture

*Mom's cousin, Kathleen Gales wrote that the Butterbrickle Bars were a recipe my mom, Elvera, gave to Aunt Martha Reed, both aunts of Dorothea.

Old Vogt peppernuts

Old Vogt peppernuts / Great Grandma (Magdelene Vogt) / Willard Fall coffee favorite

2 1/2 c. sugar and 5 eggs  -- beat till lemon color
2 t. cinnamon
vanilla, salt
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. cloves
1/2 t. anise (optional)
1 t. soda in flour -- enough flour to stir till can be handled.  Let set 1 hr then roll into pencil size rolls and freeze.  Then cut into little peppers and bake.

Spice cake from Grandma Regier

1 c. sugar
1 c. syrup
1 c. butter
1 c. buttermilk
1 t. soda
1/2 t. cloves
3 c. flour
2 eggs
nuts on top

Bar cookie recipes / Peanut butter fingers

A request for bar cookie recipes found these:

Butterbrickle Bars (from Aunt Martha)
Cheesecake Cranberry Bars (from Christa)
Chinese Chews
Chunky Pecan Bars
Peanut Butter Fingers

Another source for Mom's bar cookie recipes would be the Betty Crocker cookbook, probably an edition that would have been in print in the 1950's.

The recipe card that looks oldest is peanut butter fingers, so we'll start with that one.

Bake 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes
Makes 4 dozen

Cream 1/2 c. butter,
Add 1/2 c. sugar and
1/2 c. B. sugar (editor: brown sugar) -- cream well

Blend in 1 unbeaten egg
1/3 c. p. butter (editor: peanut butter)
1/2 t. soda
1/4 t. salt
1/2 t. vanilla

Stir in
1 c. flour
1 c. quick oats

Spread in greased 13x9 pan
Bake, then sprinkle 6 oz. cho chips (editor: chocolate chips).  Let stand 5 min. and spread

Combine 1/3 c. powdered sugar
1/4 c. p. butter
2-4 tablespoons evaporated milk
Drizzle mixture onto first mix, cool, and cut into bars.