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Here at MR we each have to read our own books and we'll each have to bake our own cookies. Do you have a favourite recipe to share...and maybe a story to go along with it.

Here is my contribution:

4 Layer Squares

This is very definitely a 1960s recipe—the kind found in the women’s magazines of the day. My mother made these all the time for years. Then she lost the recipe. She found it while cleaning out a cupboard some 20 years later and passed it on to me. It is excruciatingly sweet. As a child I never understood why she cut it into such small squares and why the adults always seemed to go on and on about how it was too rich to eat more than a taste. These improve with a bit of age, so make them and pop them in the fridge for several hours before eating them. Leftovers should be stored in the fridge too.

1st layer:
Your favorite brownie recipe or a packaged mix with 1/2 cup chopped nuts--walnut, pecan, cashew----your choice
put into a greased 9x13 pan

2nd layer:
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 cup chocolate chips
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup chopped nuts--as above--
Mix well --spoon over and spread over 1st layer

Bake at 350 for 30 min--let cool completely before 3 and 4 layers

3rd layer:
6 tablespoons butter
3 cups sifted icing sugar
1 1/2 teas. vanilla
3 tablespoons milk
Mix together and spread over baked 1st and 2nd layers

4th layer:
2 tablespoons butter
2oz.square of bitter choc--drizzled over other layers.
(Note: I always make twice this amount for layer four so that the whole surface can be covered with a thin layer of the bitter chocolate)

For some reason these taste way too sweet until they are at least 4 hours "old".