This recipe was written on a lined index card and found in a large collection, date unknown. I’ve typed it below along with a scanned copy.
Congo Bars
Oven 350°
25-30 min
2 3/4 c flour
2 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2/3 c softened butter or marg.
1 – 16 oz box dark brown sugar
3 eggs
1 c chopped nuts
1 6 oz or 12 oz choc chips (RecipeCurio note: not clear but it could be “or”?)
Oven 350° — Grease 13×9 pan & flour
Work butter & sugar ’til fluffy.
Add eggs – add dry ingredients.
Add nuts & choc. chips
Bake 25-30 min. Do not overbake.
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17 Responses to Congo Bars Recipe – Handwritten
I don’t think that is a w on the chocolate chips. Look at the butter OR margarine. I think it is 6 oz or 12 oz.
Your interpretation makes better sense than what I had Paula so I’m running with it, thanks for taking a look!
it means and
On the recipe it calls for 6 or 12 oz’s of chips. I have baked these for my Family for years. The recipe was passed down from my Husbands Mother.
I have a recipe for these from a great-great Aunt. It calls for 1 pkg.(12 oz.) choc.chips. The only other variation I see is it just calls for brown sugar, doesn’t state dark brown.
That is what I thought too, that 18 oz. of choc chips is what she was saying. Seems like there is a lot of flour for only 6 oz. But I guess we will have to make it with 12 oz. and see if there is enough room for 6 more oz. of chocolate! lol
This is the same recipe I have for Congo Cookies! Mine is also handwritten from a friend of the family. I’ve never met anyone else that made them.
I first saw this recipe published by Margaret Fox of Cafe Beaujolais in maybe the 1970’s. She would be the one to ask.
posable interpretation of ChocChip is
“1 bag of 12oz choc chip”
A neighbor of my ours shared her recipe for congo bars with my mom and she made them many, many times. As I recall, this recipes is pretty much identical, in terms of ingredients and amounts. Thanks for sharing!
I am so happy to have found your site, I have been searching for long lost recipes, from my mother, I am so pleased to have found several. Thank You, Kate
I think it just means 6 or 12 oz c. chocolate chips maybe just for your choice of more or less chips
I think the baker wrote: 6 to 12 oz. chips….
It looks
Like it says 1 bag w/ 12oz chocolate chips
I think it says…1 bag or 12 oz. It looks like my Mom’s handwriting.
If you enlarge it, it says 6oz. W (with) 12oz.
I think it says 1 “bag” or 12oz chocolate chips, since a bag is usually 12 ounces?
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