Chinese chews recipe

Dating from 1917, Chinese Chews, with their crispy tops and chewy centers, are a very old traditional bar cookie featuring nuts and dates.

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I recently came across a hundred-year-old recipe for Chinese Chews. The recipe was for walnut and date cookie balls. Why were they called Chinese? Were the balls supposed to seem special because t…

Dating from 1917, Chinese Chews, with their crispy tops and chewy centers, are a very old traditional bar cookie featuring nuts and dates.

You have to try my mother-in-law's Chinese Chews recipe! These chewy, buttery, date-nut bars are based on a vintage recipe from 1917!

A simple crunchy and chewy dessert bar. Not really sure where the name comes from, because, as far as I know, there isn’t anything inherently Chinese about these.

Easy, yummy cookie. I make these for the holiday cookie exchange, but I felt so guilty for making such an easy cookie, I didn't make them one year. The next year I was asked to please make them again, people were asking for them.

Cookie Category: Bar

Nana made these every Christmas and even though they are not my favorite cookie, I enjoy making them for the memories they bring back. As I was putting together the recipe tonight, I thought back to the struggle Nana and I would have hand mixing this batter. We had to trade off the chore, because it was so difficult. If only we had a KitchenAid mixer at the time. These were a bar cookie popular in the 1930's. There are many recipes for them on the Internet, but this one is from the 1934…

An old-fashioned Southern recipe for chewy snack cake bars studded with pecans, similar to blondies but with a little more sass.