Mother's Cookbook · Vintage 1990 Recipe
Delicious Walnut Slices
A community recipe contributed by Vonnie Armstrong · Palmyra Bike & Scout Shop.
Ingredients
- Base: 1 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup Crisco shortening
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- Dash of salt
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons milk
- Filling: 2 cups brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 6 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup coconut
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- Confectioners' sugar frosting, for finishing
- Additional coconut, for topping
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325°F and lightly grease a 9-by-12-inch pan.
- For the base, beat shortening and white sugar. Add the egg and vanilla and beat lightly. Mix in milk, flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Roll out like pastry and fit into the prepared pan. Bake approximately 15 minutes. Cool.
- For the filling, beat eggs and brown sugar. Add flour and baking powder, then fold in coconut and walnuts.
- Spread over cooled base and bake approximately 25 minutes at 325°F, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool, frost with confectioners' sugar frosting, top with coconut, and cut into approximately 1½-by-¾-inch slices.
Kitchen Notes
Original notes say the slices freeze well for up to two months; frosting quantities were not given.
Preserved from the original source; no personal kitchen test is claimed.
Original Source
Submitted by Vonnie Armstrong · Palmyra Bike & Scout Shop, Old Fashioned Christmas Recipes, Timesaver Shopping Guide, December 11, 1990, page 15. Mother's cookbook collection.