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ALMOND COCOANUT BARS

1 Cup soar 1 cup brown sugar

+ cup oatmeal % cup flour

% cup brown sugar % tsp. baking powder

% cup butter %, tsp. salt

3/4 cup nutmeats (almonds) 1 cup flaked cocoanut

2 eggs % cup thoroughly drained

pineapple

Blend % cup butter and % cup brown sugar. Add 1 cup
flour and oatmeal. Pack in bottom of a well greased
pan. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes. Beat eggs thoroughly
add brown sugar. Add flour, baking powder and salt,
beat again, then add cocoanut, pineapple and nutmeats.
Spoon over baked layer. Bake in moderate oven 350° for
25 minutes or until golden brown. Cut into bars while |
warm. Makes 2 dozen bars.

- Mrs. R.H. "Ray" Johnson, Saskatoon, Sask.

BROWNIE SQUARES

4 cup butter or margarine 1% cups flour

2 cups brown sugar 4, cup milk

% tsp. salt % cup walnuts (chopped)
1 tsp. vanilla % Cup cocoa

4 @ggs

Cream butter, sugar, salt and vanilla until smooth. Add
eggs one at a time and beat after each addition. Sift
flour and cocoa together and add alternately with milk.
Add nuts. Bake at 300° in a 13x9 greased and floured
pan for one hour. When cool, spread with this icing:

2 tpsp. cocoa 1 tbsp. corn syrup !
L tbsp. + 2 tsp. water 1 cup confectioners sugar |
. tye. Git 1 tsp. vanilla

Combine all ingredients except sugar. Cook and stir over |
low heat until mixture is smooth. Remove from heat. Beat
in sugar and vanilla.

- Mrs. Katherine Cherniwchan, Caslan, Alta.

.To soften butter quickly, fill a bowl with boiling
water, empty and turn it upside down over butter dish..

...Before scalding milk, wipe bottom of pan with some
butter, and milk will not scorch...