Aunt Dorothy’s Old-Fashioned Butterscotch Squares
Servings 20 small squares
Complete your holiday cookie tray with my Aunt Dorothy's delicious Butterscotch Squares, an easy, no-bake, vintage family recipe.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter plus extra for greasing the pan
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 beaten egg
- 8 ounces vanilla wafers, chopped in pea size bits In a pinch, you can use lightly broken up graham crackers or Digestive Biscuits.
- ¾ cup chopped nuts
- ¾ cup butterscotch morsels
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Grease an 8 x 8 inch square pan with butter.
- Melt the ½ cup butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.
- Add sugar and egg; stir to blend well.
- Put the pan back on the burner and heat over moderate heat, stirring almost constantly until mixture boils.
- Allow to boil for one minute, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in vanilla wafers, nuts, butterscotch morsels and vanilla.
- Press the toffee-like rubble firmly into the buttered 8 x 8 inch pan.
- Press in this toffee-like rubble into the pan firmly.
- Refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
- Remove from the fridge an hour or so before cutting. Cut in small pieces to serve. You should get about 20 squares from the pan.
- Store leftovers (if there are any) in the fridge.
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