OLD FASHIONED WALNUT SLICE

WALNUT SLICE ( Fits an 8 inch pan. I double this for 9x13 and freeze it in slices)

  My mother would make this every summer. Only in the summer, for the most part. For company. For us. Just to have. She always put orange peel on top.  This is the first summer I have made this since she's been gone, which is about 26 years. I have no idea why I haven't before now. Reminds me of sitting in the shade of the trees with kindred spirits, reveling in the yumminess of the walnut slice. As you can see, Spencer is snoozing through the enitre process.....

WALNUT SLICE ( Fits an 8 inch pan. I double this for 9x13 and freeze it in slices)

 

BOTTOM LAYER:

1 ¼ cups flour, ½ cup margarine, 1/3 cup brown sugar
(Combine till crumbly. Press into foil lined ungreased pan)
 Bake at 350 F for 10 minutes.

 

SECOND LAYER:

2 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla extract,1 ¼ cups brown sugar, 1 ½ cups chopped walnuts, 1 tsp flour, ½ tsp baking powder, pinch salt.
(Combine all. Pour over baked bottom layer)

 ( Bo and Bunny...observers.....)

 

 Bake for about 25 minutes till light brown and a knife inserted into layer is not ooey gooey. Should be the consistency of pecan pie. Cool.

( Not Spencer. A look a like)

 

TOP LAYER:

1 ½ cups icing sugar, ¼ cup soft margarine, 1 ½ tbsp. milk or water, vanilla extract or orange extract, whatever you like best.  Combine.

Plop on top of slice.  Can be frozen as is, or cut into slices and frozen between layers of wax paper. Freezes very well.

( Sleepy Smokey)