Toffee Nut Bars, a Vintage Recipe

Name: Toffee Nut Bars, a Vintage Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 36-40 cookie bars, 10 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 cup nuts, chopped; 1 1/2 cups sugar; 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed; 2 cups flour; 1/2 cup shortening or 1/2 cup butter; 1 egg; 3/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated; 1 cup buttermilk or 1 cup sour milk; 1/4 teaspoon allspice; 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 tablespoon coffee or 1 tablespoon instant coffee, dissolved in a little water

Submitted by Jezski

"A great bar cookie recipe, not gooey or chewy. There is a chopped nut base, then a crumb layer, then a thin spongy spicy cake-y layer. The amounts of spices can be adjusted to your taste. These work pretty well for me. From the archives in my collection. My daughter requested these, reminding me that I used to make them a lot. Things do get mislaid, though. And/or forgotten. Naaahhhh, who forgets anything at my age?!"

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Ready In:: 45mins
Ingredients:: 13
Yields:: 36-40 cookie bars
Serves:: 10

ingredients

1 cup nuts, chopped
1 ¹⁄₂ cups sugar
³⁄₄ cup brown sugar, packed
2 cups flour
¹⁄₂ 1/2 cup shortening or 1/2 cup butter
Beat together
1 egg
³⁄₄ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₂ teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated
1 cup buttermilk or 1 cup sour milk
¹⁄₄ teaspoon allspice
¹⁄₂ teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon coffee or 1 tablespoon instant coffee, dissolved in a little water

directions

Mix together as for pie crust: the sugar, brown sugar, flour and butter.
Sprinkle bottom of 11 x 15 pan ungreased with 1 cup chopped nuts, then with 2 cups of above mixture.
Beat together the remaining ingredients.
Stir into flour mix. Pour over mix in pan, spreading gently and evenly.
Bake in a 350 oven 35-40 minute.
Cut into as many bars as desired.