Vienna Bars

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Vienna Bars

This recipe came from my sister in law Brigetta from Vienna

Ingredients:

1 cup margarine or butter/room temperature

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 tsp. salt

2 large egg yolks

2 1/2 cups plain all purpose flour

1 10oz. jar currant jelly

1 cup chocolate bits

4 large egg whites

2 cups finely chopped nuts

1 cup sugar

Instructions

Put butter and 1/2 cup sugar, working them with wooden spoon until creamy and well mixed.

Beat in 1/3 tsp. salt and 2 large egg yolks.

Add 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour and start mixing. When it becomes hard to work, knead with fingers of one hand to make smooth dough. Pat dough evenly into bottom of a greased 12" x 17" jelly roll pan or on same sized greased baking sheet.

Bake 15 - 20 minutes in preheated 350 degree oven until lightly browned.

Remove from oven and spread with one 10 oz. red current jelly and 1 cup of chocolate bits.

In a deep bowl beat the whites of 4 eggs with a rotary beater at high speed until stiff.

Using a metal spoon fold in nuts and sugar.

Gently spread egg white mixture over jelly.

Bake for about 25 minutes until browned at 350 degrees.

Remove to wire rack to cool.

Cut while still warm.