{"id":737,"date":"2013-01-04T06:08:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=737"},"modified":"2013-01-04T06:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T14:11:25","slug":"1990s-blog-salted-nut-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"1990s blog: Salted Nut Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A non-chocolate cookie! But these have a lot of peanuts, and peanuts are almost as good as chocolate. The butterscotch chips make these wonderful. They taste kind of like a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PayDay_%28confection%29\">PayDay<\/a> candy bar.<\/p>\n<h2>Salted Nut Bars<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/2 cup margarine<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2\u00a0cups flour<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon salt<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 C powdered sugar<\/li>\n<li>12 oz. salted peanuts (I usually don&#8217;t use dry roasted peanuts for this recipe)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup light corn syrup<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons margarine<\/li>\n<li>8 oz. butterscotch chips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grease a 9\u2033x13\u2033 pan and preheat the oven to 350\u00b0.<\/p>\n<p>Use a mixer to combine the 1\/2 cup margarine, flour, salt, and powdered sugar; blend on low speed until it holds together pretty well. Pat the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>While the cookies bake, prepare the glaze: mix the corn syrup, 2 T margarine, and butterscotch chips in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Let it boil a couple minutes after the chips have melted.<\/p>\n<p>Sprinkle the baked dough with the peanuts, then pour on the glaze. Return to the oven for 5 minutes. Cut after cooled for a half hour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"cookies\" alt=\"cookies graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/cookies.gif\" width=\"73\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Please refer to my <a title=\"Cookie Recipe Basics\" href=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=642\">Cookie Recipe Basics<\/a> to make sure your cookies turn out!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Read the <a title=\"1990s blog: Introduction\" href=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=632\">introduction to my 1990s cooking blog<\/a> for background information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-chocolate cookie! But these have a lot of peanuts, and peanuts are almost as good as chocolate. The butterscotch chips make these wonderful. They taste kind of like a PayDay candy bar. Salted Nut Bars 1\/2 cup margarine 1 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=737\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-199sblog","category-cookies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}