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Butter Tart Squares

From the family recipe box

FromRecipe Box
Course
Sweets

Read this one with the card open. Something on it is illegible, missing or ambiguous. It is transcribed exactly as written — nothing has been guessed or filled in — and every uncertainty is marked below.

Summary

A two-part bar recipe — a pressed crumb bottom baked first, then a brown-sugar filling poured over and baked again — good for a butter-tart-style bar search when a bake time and temperature are already needed.

Ingredients

Bottom layer: - 1/2 cup butter - 1 cup all-purpose flour - 2 Tbsp brown sugar

Filling: - 2 eggs - 1 1/2 cup brown sugar - 1/2 cup oatmeal - 1/4 tsp baking powder - 1 tsp vanilla - 1/2 cup chopped walnuts/currants (written on the card as "walnuts/currants" — not clear whether this means a choice of one or both combined; transcribed as written, not resolved)

Method

  1. Cut butter into flour and brown sugar until crumbly.
  2. Press into a 9x9 pan.
  3. Bake 350°F for 15 minutes.
  4. Mix filling ingredients well.
  5. Pour over the partially baked crumb bottom.
  6. Return to oven and bake 20 minutes longer.
  7. Cool before cutting.

Notes on the artifact

Handwritten on lined notebook paper, two parts (bottom crust + filling) written in sequence. No author name or date appears anywhere on the page.

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