Chocolate Squares

Heat 1 cup milk, 3 thsps. cocoa. Stir until mixture begins to thicken.
Remove from heat. Add and beat 14 cup butter, 1 egg. Add 1 cup
brown sugar well packed, 14 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 cup flour, %
tsp. baking powder. Mix 1 !tsp. baking soda in 1 tbsp. milk. Add soda
mixture to cocoa-flour mixture. Beat well. Bake in shallow pan 12

to 15 minutes in 350 degrees F. oven. Ice.
—Mrs. Grace Robertson

Mincemeat Squares

'4, cup shortening 1 tsp. soda
1 cup brown sugar '4, tsp. salt
1/4 cup enriched flour 134 cup quick oats

Cream shortening and sugar. Sift dry ingredients. Add with oats until
crumbly. Pack firmly 14 of the mixture in flat pan. Spread with
mincemeat and add remaining crumbs. Bake 30 minutes.

—Bessie Burton

Coconut and Nut Squares

2 tbsp. butter or margarine 1'4 cup sweet med. cocoanut
2 eggs 4 tsp. soda

1 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. vanilla

5 tbsp. flour 1 cup chopped walnuts

YY, tsp. salt

Melt the butter in an 8-inch square pan and leave in pan. Beat eggs
and add rest of ingredients. Beat well. Bake in a 350 degree F. oven
about 20 minutes. When cool ice with lemon butter icing. Cut into
squares.

—Bessie Burton

Nanaimo Bars

'Y, cup butter 4 cup white sugar

5 tbsp. cocoa 1 tsp. vanilla

1 egg 2 cups fine graham wafer
Y cup chopped walnuts crumbs

1 cup cocoanut

Place butter, sugar, cocoa, vanilla and egg in bowl. Set dish in boiling
water and stir until butter has melted and mixture resembles thin cus-
tard. Combine crumbs, cocoa, nuts and cocoanut. Add to custard mix-
ture. Pack this well in a 9’ square pan and spread with the follow-
ing icing:

icing:

Cream |'4 cup butter 2 tbsp. vanilla custard powder,
3 tbsp. milk or Jello pudding powder

Blend in two cups icing sugar. Spread over chocolate base and let
cool about 15 minutes. Melt four squares semi-sweet chocolate with
1 tbsp. butter and spread over custard. Requires no cooking.

—Helen M. Newton