Title: Black Walnut Bars
Categories: Nut Dessert Snack Midwest
Yield: 60 Bars

2	c	Sifted flour
1	c	Firmly packed brown sugar
1	c	Butter or margarine
4		Eggs
2	c	Firmly packed brown sugar
1	ts	Vanilla
2	tb	Flour
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
2	c	Chopped black walnuts

Mix 2 cups sifted flour, one cup of brown sugar firmly packed and one cup of butter or margarine until crumbs form. Press into well greased 15 1/5 x 10 1/2-inch jelly roll pan and bake in 350F. oven for 10 minutes. Turn oven to 375F., remove pan from oven immediately and cool slightly about 10 minutes. Turn oven to 375F., remove pan from oven immediately and cool slightly about 10 minutes while oven is heating.

Beat 4 eggs until light and add 2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Then stir together 2 tablespoons flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt and add egg mixture along with 2 cups chopped black walnuts. Spread this mixture over previously baked crust in pan and bake in 375F. oven for 20 minutes or until light brown. Cool in pan and cut into approximately 2 inch x 1 inch bars.

Ardella Gootee The Hoosier Kernel Indiana Nutgrower's Association Volume 43, Number 4, 1 Dec. 1996

MM Format by John Hartman Indianapolis, IN

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