Date Squares

11 ingredients
5 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 1/2 cups rolled oats
  • 3 cups pitted dates
  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

  1. 1
    Mix and sift flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Stir in brown sugar. Work in butter with fingertips until well blended. Lightly stir in rolled oats.
  2. 2
    Press half of the mixture into bottom of a buttered 11 x 7 x 1 1/2 inch baking pan.
  3. 3
    Simmer dates, water and sugar in a saucepan about 35 minutes or until mixture thickens. Stir occasionally. Add vanilla.
  4. 4
    Pour over mixture in baking pan. Sprinkle with remaining curmb mixture. Bake in oven at 300 f for 30 minutes. Cool. Cut into squares. Makes forty 1 1/2 inch squares.
  5. 5
    NOTE: 1 1/4 hours time allocated includes prep time.

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