Date Nut Bars

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup crisco
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 1/4 cups oatmeal
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups pitted dates, chopped
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup walnuts, slightly chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 in a saucepan, place the dates, sugar and water.
• 3 cook and boil together until thick.
• 4 allow to cool while making the crust.
• 5 in a large mixing bowl, mix together brown sugar, crisco, baking soda, oatmeal, flour and vanilla.
• 6 press half of the dough into the bottom of a 13 x 9 inch pan.
• 7 reserve the rest for topping.
• 8 spread date mixture over crust; pat rest of dough mix on top of dates and bake for 20 minutes or until brown.
• 9 when cool, cut into bar shapes.