1 pound brown sugar
2/3 cup melted butter
2 3/4 cup flour
3 eggs
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup pecans
1 pound orange candy slices
Cut orange slices into small pieces. Pour melted butter over brown sugar and beat. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together. Add dry ingredients a little at a time. Add vanilla, pecans and chopped orange slices. Spread in a [greased and floured] 9 x 13-inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees F. for about 30 to 40 minutes. Cool and cut into squares. Remove from pan.
This was one of my mother's Christmas time hits.
Thank everyone for the great thread, JL
Thanks for sharing your Mom's favorite cookie recipe. Wow! I'll bet that cookbook is filled with treasures. I just love those old fund raising books that our Mom's and Grandma's compiled.(Who knows perhaps one day one of our descendants will come upon this thread and marvel at the "old fashioned" recipes).
I see you survived your parties yesterday. Did you really throw a party in the afternoon and attend one in the evening? I am impressed! Any shrimp left or did the Canteen get all the leftovers? And if they did, what are we, chopped liver?