My mother owned this recipe, which is quite old.
| Servings: | 18 |
| Yield: | 3 dozen |
Ingredients
- 1 pound brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F ( 200 degrees C ). Grease a 15x10x1 inch jellyroll pan.
- In a heavy saucepan combine the sugar and eggs. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat, stir in the flour, salt, vanilla, and pecans.
- Spoon mixture into the prepared baking pan and bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Cool and cut into squares.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 205 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 36 g |
| Cholesterol | 41 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 88 mg |
| Sugars | 25 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Love this recipe, I remember going to my mama(grandmother who raised and adopted me) asking about her recipe told her I had looked all on-line but there wasn’t a recipe for “shoe” bread, Mama laughed at me till she had tears in her eyes..miss that woman so bad..she also would make it with crushed walnuts too, and I’ve used butterscotch pieces instead of chocolate, which was also good
I was looking for my old recipe from 30 years ago. The ingredients sounded about the same. I was shocked at 15 min cooking time. What I made was not like my old recipe. Wasn’t sweet enough, tasted flour. Not very good. My old recipe I remember no cooking sugar, and adding eggs 1 at the time. So for me this was a fail.
This was quite good. I was craving that chewy crust you can get on brownies, so I made homemade (non-box) brownies and they just didn’t come out the way I was craving. I randomly came across this chew bread on Facebook and decided to try it, and it was the texture I’d been craving. It’s so easy to make! I omitted the nuts and it was still yummy. Even my husband likes it which is surprising since he doesn’t usually like sweet stuff.
got bored….saw this…..made this……ate this…..very very good…
Oh man, this is sooooo good. I knew it sounded good and it is!! I made it exactly as directed. I think I might leave it in a few more minutes to crisp it up a bit more. Kinda like the chewiest brownie without the chocolate. Love it! Thank you!
Oh man, this is sooooo good. I knew it sounded good and it is!! I made it exactly as directed. I think I might leave it in a few more minutes to crisp it up a bit more. Kinda like the chewiest brownie without the chocolate. Love it! Thank you!
Very delicious …we added vanilla, chocolate chips ( 1/2 cup sprinkled on top of half of the batter) and extra nuts (1/2 cup extra added to batter ). This is truly a simple but delicious recipe. Thank you for submitting this recipe.
This did not impress me. For one thing don’t spray with pam. Butter the pan otherwise it taste greasy to me. Also the pan they recommended was to big. Spread to much, very thin but definitely chewy,
Delicious
Have been making this recipe as is for 20 plus years. It is over 100 years old. Someone always wants the recipe.
mine did not look like the photo. rather, it looked and tasted more like Blondies. however, I loved it. I made it again using dark brown sugar infused with molasses, and that gave it an extra kick. Great recipe!
Really tasty. Never had anything quite like it. I preferred it cold.. it seemed chewier. Next time I think I’d add more nuts
LOVE this recipe just hits the right spot the only thing I changed was added a stick of butter 🙂 and YUM YUM YUM
These were easy and delicious. I made them for our Christmas party at work and my family loved them. I was shocked to see that I had some left to bring to the party.
i’ve got a bit of a sweet tooth, and i was a little disappointed that these weren’t sweeter. more of a bread, less of a cookie bar. Very easy though, and pretty good.
Looking for something different to take to a Chocolate Fondue gathering. These worked great cut into bite size pieces. Dip in Dark, not so sweet chocolate. I used walnuts in half. Just as good.
My husband and I just moved South from Ohio, and I stumbled across chew bread at a local cafe/ bakery… having never heard of it before, I decided to try it out, and enjoyed it so much that I searched for this recipe. It was somewhat messy, and a little bit too sweet, but its a new Southern treat for us to enjoy.
Bread is definitely chewy. I goofed when measuring brown sugar, which comes in a 2 lb bag. Instead of using 1 pound (2 cups), I used 1 cup – really made a difference. Next time I’ll use 2 cups from the 2 lb bag. NOTE: rather than cook sugar and eggs in heavy saucepan, I used double boiler – no chance of burning mix if you don’t stir all the time. P.S. bread is filling.
Very easy to make. They taste good. Excellent recipe to make when you need something quick.
These are easy to make and surprisingly yummy. When they first came out of the oven I thought they were only kind of chewy. Ten minutes later I could see why they were considered “chew” bread. If you love brown sugar, you’ll love these.
I’m a sugar and sweets lover, and it’s the kind of snacks I like. Easy to fix, not that much dishwashing (just one pan), and keeps well. Try it, I’m almost sure you’ll like it.