Last year, I shared cake, cookie, and pie recipes from my mother and grandmother for holiday swapping with my readers, my cousins, and my nieces. The old-fashioned recipes were popular posts, so I am trying to share more. As I have time, I am still going through the handwritten cookbooks and recipe cards that were my Grandma's and that I found when going through my Mom's stuff after she passed. The below is from Grandma P's Recipe Notebook No 3.
Raisin Date Bars
Makes about 40 cookies
Bar Cookie Ingredients:
1/2 cup margarine (softened)
1/4 cup Crisco
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup oats
Steps:
- Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Prepare filling and set aside.
- Grease cookie pan.
- Mix margarine, Crisco, and brown sugar together.
- Stir in flour, salt, baking soda, and oats.
- Press half of the crumbly mixture in pan.
- Spread filling over top.
- Sprinkle with remaining crumbly mixture, pressing lightly.
- Bake until light brown, approximately 25 to 30 minutes,
- Cut into bars of about 1 1/2 inch.
Fruit and Nut Filling
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups seedless raisins
1 1/2 cups cut-up dates
1/4/ cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups water
Steps:
- Mix all ingredient, except nuts, in a saucepan.
- Heat to boil over a low heat, stirring occasionally.
- Continue boiling, stirring until mixture thickens, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in nuts.
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