Name: Nut Bars
Ingredients: 1 cup fondant; 4 cups chopped nut meat

Nut Bars

A sweet treat made by melting fondant, mixing in chopped nuts, pouring into a pan, cooling, cutting into bars, and wrapping in waxed paper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients

Nut Bars

Ingredients

1 cup fondant
4 cups chopped nut meat

Directions

Make the bars

Melt the fondant in a saucepan.
Flavor the melted fondant as desired and stir in the chopped nut meat.
Pour the mixture into a small oiled pan.

Cut and wrap

Once cool, cut into bars with a sharp knife.
Wrap each bar in waxed paper.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Fondant: Melts to bind the nut meat together and set into a firm, sweet bar.
Nut meat: Provides the bulk, texture and nutty flavor of the bars.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.