Jam Bars - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 lb. sugar
1/4 lb. blanched almonds, ground or chopped fine
1/2 lb. butter or margarine
1/2 lb. flour
2 egg yolks
1 lb. apricot jam

Preparation

Mix sugar and nuts well.
Add margarine and flour.
Turn onto board.
Make a well and add yolks; mix.
Use about 2/3 of this dough to make bottom layer in jelly roll pan.
Roll to about 1/2-inch thickness.
Spread with jam.
Use remaining dough to make cross bars on top by making thin rolls of dough and place these crisscross to each other on top of the jam layer.
Bake in moderate oven until light brown.
Slice into rectangles.