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.
Ingredients
Base - 1 cup flour - 1 tea sp. Baking Soda - 1 cup firmly packed Brown Sugar - ¼ cup soft butter or Margarine - ½ cup desiccated Coconut - ½ cup uncooked Quick Rolled Oats
Topping - 2 Eggs, well beaten - 6-oz. pkg. (1 cup) Chipits Chocolate Chips - ½ cup firmly packed Brown sugar - ½ cup cut-up Walnuts - ¼ cup melted Butter or Margarine - 1 tblsp. Flour
Method
Heat oven to 350°.
Sift 1 cup flour and baking soda onto wax paper. Mix 1 cup brown sugar and ¼ cup butter in a 1½ qt bowl, until crumbly. Stir in flour mixture, coconut and oats. Press firmly into a greased 9-inch square pan.
Mix eggs, chocolate chips, ½ cup brown sugar, walnuts, ¼ cup butter and 1 tblsp. flour in a bowl. Pour over bottom layer.
Bake near center of oven 35 min. or until cake pulls from sides of pan.
Notes
⚠ THE SCAN IS CLIPPED AT THE BOTTOM EDGE. The final method line runs off the bottom of page 2 —
"…or until cake pulls / from sides of pan" is readable, but whether anything follows it is not
knowable from this scan. Most bar recipes end with a cooling and cutting instruction, and this one may
well have one. Re-scan the card — publish: needs-review until then. Nothing has been invented to
fill the gap.
This is a Canadian card. Chipits is the Hershey Canada chocolate-chip brand, sold in Canada and essentially unknown in US grocery stores, and desiccated coconut is Commonwealth usage rather than the American "shredded" or "flaked." The card is recording a brand-sheet recipe of the kind Chipits printed on its packaging and in its promotional booklets. That is a fact about the brand and the wording — it is not a claim about who wrote the card, which remains unknown.
Two brown-sugar quantities and two butter quantities appear in the same list, split between the base and the topping. They are kept separated above; on the card they run as one continuous column, which is easy to misread when cooking from it.
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