1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup coarsely chopped nuts

Melt butter over low heat. Remove from heat, add brown sugar and stir until well blended; cool. Add egg and mix well. Stir in dry ingredients, then add vanilla and nuts. Spread in well buttered 8 inch square pan and bake in moderate (350) oven for about 25 minutes. Cool in pan on cake rack. Then cut into 2 inch squares. Makes 16.