Date Bars

Ingredients

• 1 pound dates, stoned
• 3^ cup water
• Y2 cup sugar
• 2Y2 cups rolled oats
• 1 cup butter or % cup cooking oil
• 2Y2 cups white flour
• Y2 cup cold water
• 1 cup brown sugar
• yi teaspoon soda

Method

1. 1

   Cook and mash dates with water to a jam paste.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar, add water.

3. 3

   Sift flour with soda and add rolled oats.

4. 4

   Mix all.

5. 5

   Roll thin.

6. 6

   Spread one-half of your rolled dough with date paste and cover with the other half.

7. 7

   Cut in oblong bars and bake in moderate oven for ten to fifteen minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Date Bars 1 pound dates, stoned 3^ cup water Y2 cup sugar Cook and mash to jam paste with potato masher. 2Y2 cups rolled oats 1 cup butter or % cup 2Y2 cups white flour cooking oil Y2 cup cold water 1 cup brown sugar yi teaspoon soda

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