Looking for a special cookie bar

this recipe was made 40 years ago and served at a little restaurant called Cambridge Junction Inn. The lady who made this lebchuken type bar never would give out her recipe to “we Kids” but I have never found a bar that tasted like this.. it had the almond placement on the top of each bar. was soft like a old fashioned gingerbread cookie, and I am sure had molasses in it.. The only thing that I think might have had some influence in it was the fat, lard, or bacon drippings that kept it soft. Can anyone help me? The cook was Ruth Mays or Maes from Brooklyn, Michigan