This handwritten Cereal Bars recipe comes from the Snacks section of My Mom’s Recipe Box. The transcription preserves the card’s original wording, abbreviations, cereal examples, and informal microwave directions.
Original Recipe Card
Ingredients
- 3 TBS. Butter or oleo
- 25 lg. or 3 1/2 c. mini marshmallows
- 5 cups cereal – like “cap’n crunch” “Kix”, “Trix”, “Cheerios”
Directions
Butter pan using. Put butter & marshmallows in micro safe large bowl. Nuke 1 1/2 to 3 mins – stir after 1 min until melted and smooth. Stir in cereal. Press in pan. Let set & cool, cut into squares.
Preservation Notes
This Cereal Bars recipe is handwritten on an index card. The original scan preserves the handwriting, capitalization, punctuation, spacing, and informal microwave directions as they appear on the card.
Notes From the Original
The directions begin with the incomplete phrase Butter pan using. and later use the wording Nuke 1 1/2 to 3 mins. Both are preserved exactly as written rather than silently completed or modernized.
About My Mom’s Recipe Box
This recipe is part of My Mom’s Recipe Box, an ongoing preservation project dedicated to my late mother’s original recipe collection. Every effort is made to preserve the original wording, organization, handwritten notes, typewritten cards, magazine clippings, corrections, and other details exactly as they appeared in her recipe box. When clarification is helpful, it is provided separately so the original recipe remains preserved.
