Nut Bars

2 tablespoons brown sugar 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup boiling water 1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup flour

1/8 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons English walnut meat, finely chopped Halves of walnuts or almonds

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.

Nut Macaroons

White 1 egg

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup pecan nut meats 1/4 teaspoon salt

Beat white of egg until stiff and add gradually, while beating constantly, sugar. Fold in nut meats, finely chopped and sprinkled with salt. Drop from tip of spoon, one inch apart, on a buttered sheet, and bake in a moderate oven until delicately browned.

Brownies

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup melted butter

1 egg, unbeaten

2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted

3/4 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup walnut meats, cut in pieces

Mix ingredients in order given. Line a seven-inch square pan with paraffine paper. Spread mixture evenly in pan and bake in a slow oven. As soon as taken from oven turn from pan, remove paper, and cut cake in strips, using a sharp knife. If these directions are not followed paper will cling to cake, and it will be impossible to cut it in shapely pieces.

Card Cakes

1/3 cup butter

1 cup powdered sugar

2 eggs

1 cup flour

1/3 teaspoon salt

Jordan Almonds

1 tablespoon breakfast cocoa

2 tablespoons sugar

1/4 teaspoon powdered cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Shredded Cocoanut

Cream the butter, add sugar, eggs well beaten, flour, and salt. Spread mixture on bottom of a buttered inverted dripping-pan, decorate with almonds blanched and cut in strips, and bake in slow oven. Cut in desired shape, using heart, spade, and diamond shaped cutters before removing from pan. To give variety, divide mixture in halves. To one-half add sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, and vanilla, then spread on pan and sprinkle with shredded cocoanut.