Old-Fashioned Coconut and Almond Slice

These chewy bars—bars are called slices in Australia, which somehow makes them even more appealing—remind me of the coconut bars that appeared in magazines and newspaper columns when I was growing up. The recipe comes from Paola Bacchia’s cookbook, At Nonna’s Table, and, as Paola writes in the headnote, her mother, Livia, got the recipe from a compilati…