Oatmeal fruit bars (wash)

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
8 ounces Dried prunes
¼ cup Hot water
3 tablespoons Arrowroot
3 tablespoons Water
4 cups Old-fashioned oats
1 cup Wheat flour
½ cup White flour
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Brown sugar
¾ cup Applesauce
1 pounds Sun maid dried mixed fruit
1½ cup Orange juice
2 tablespoons Lemon juice

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Puree prunes in food processor with hot water. Blend arrowroot with the water and add to mixture in processor and blend. Set aside ½ of this mixture.

Stir together oats, flours, sugars and applesauce and add to ½ of the prune mixture. Sprinkle ½ this mixture into a greased 9 x 13 pan to cover the bottom. Set the other ½ aside.

Chop dried fruit mix in the food processor with the remaining prune mixture. Place mixture in a saucepan with the orange and lemon juice, heat just until all liquid is absorbed.

Spread this mixture over the crust. Sprinkle remaining oatmeal mix on top.

Before baking, sprinkle a small amount of oatmeal over the top.

Bake for 40 minutes.

Source: Barbara Williams, Coasting & Cooking Bk #4 -- Washington & Oregon, 1997. ISBN:0-9609950-2-1

Typed and MC_Busted for you by Brenda Adams <adamsfmle@...> Recipe by: The Bagelry, Bellingham, Wash.

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