Grandma Bunnys Chewies Recipes

MOLASSES BARS

Steps:

• Kick the tires and light the fires to 375 °F.
• Cream the sugars and the margarine together. Add in your two eggs and beat in completely.
• Add in the molasses to the margarine/sugar mix and mix in thoroughly.
• Whisk together the dry ingredients.
• Combine the wet and dry and mix well.Then add in your raisins.
• Divide the dough into two pieces, and from each half form three long rolls on a cookie sheet.
• Build them up as high as you can and they fit across a baking sheet, width-wise. When you build them up, you get a thicker, chewier bar.
• Bake them in the oven at 375 for 13-15 minutes, and do not over/under bake. This from my grandma's instructions. So they need to be baked until the edges are cooked and the middle slightly still underdone.
• Slice them across into about 8-10 squares when they are fully cooled, needless to say, this recipe makes a large amount, you can end up with 40-60 of the little bars!

GRANDMA BUNNY'S CHEWIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a medium sized pot, melt the butter and the sugar together over low heat.
• When melted, remove the pot from the stove and let the mixture cool a little.
• Temper your beaten eggs by taking a couple of spoonfuls of the butter and sugar mixture and stirring it into the eggs. Repeat with a few more spoonfuls, until the eggs are warmed (the goal of this is to prevent scrambling when you mix the eggs into the butter and sugar, trust me, you don't want scrambled eggs as part of your cookies).
• Add the eggs to sugar and stir to combine. Add vanilla at this time.
• Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the wet ingredients and stir to combine.
• Stir in the nuts (I usually pulse them a bit in the food processor, what's another dirty dish -- ).
• Spoon out onto parchment or silpat lined cookie sheets and bake 8-10 minutes.

GRANDMA'S CHEW BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F ( 200 degrees C ). Grease a 15x10x1 inch jellyroll pan.
• In a heavy saucepan combine the sugar and eggs. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat, stir in the flour, salt, vanilla, and pecans.
• Spoon mixture into the prepared baking pan and bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool and cut into squares.