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- From: breid@spock.uucp (Betty Reid)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Oatmeal bars
- Message-ID: <6083@decwrl.DEC.COM>
- Date: 24 Oct 86 03:36:09 GMT
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- Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Conn., USA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE OATMEAL-BARS D "6 Oct 86" 1986
- .RZ "OATMEAL BARS" "Chewy rolled oatmeal bar cookies"
- If I had ever dreamed that my oldest son would grow up to be the moderator
- of mod.recipes, I might have taught him how to make these cookies when he
- was young. They were his favorite cookies.
- .IH "Serves 6 children"
- .IG "1 cup" "shortening" "220 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "brown sugar" "200 g"
- .IG "1 cup" "granulated sugar" "190 g"
- .IG "4" "eggs,"
- beaten well
- .IG "1 tsp" "vanilla extract" "5 ml"
- .IG "1\(12 cups" "white flour," "150 g"
- sifted
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "baking soda" "5 ml"
- .IG "2 cups" "quick-cooking oats" "150 g"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "chopped walnuts" "40 g"
- (optional)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 350 175 .
- .SK 2
- Cream shortening and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well.
- .SK 3
- Sift flour, salt, and soda and add to creamed sugars. Add oatmeal and nuts,
- and mix well.
- .SK 4
- Spread evenly into a greased
- .AB "13\(mu9\(mu2-inch" "33\(mu22\(mu4-cm"
- baking pan. Bake at
- .TE 350 175
- for 20 minutes.
- .SK 5
- While still warm, cut into squares and remove from pan.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes preparation, 20 minutes baking.
- .I Precision:
- Measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Betty Reid
- Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Conn. USA
- {decwrl!mejac,yale,princeton}!spock!breid
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