Old-fashioned fig bars

25 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
8 ounces California figs (Calimyrna or Mission); stems removed
⅓ cup Fruit juice or water
1 teaspoon Vanilla
½ teaspoon Ground cinnamon; (1/2 to 1)
½ teaspoon Ground nutmeg
1 cup All-purpose flour
1 cup Rolled oats; (not instant)
½ cup Packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
½ teaspoon Salt
⅓ cup Butter

Directions

FOR FIG FILLING

FOR CRUST

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

To prepare filling: Combine figs, juice, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg in a blender or food processor; process until pureed. Set aside.

To prepare crust: Combine flour, oats, sugar, vanilla, salt and butter in food processor bowl fitted with metal blade. Process until blended, about 30 to 60 seconds. (To mix by hand: In large mixing bowl, combine flour, oats, sugar, vanilla and salt. Cut butter into small chunks, then cut into flour mixture with pastry blender or two knives until mixture is blended.)Reserve ½ cup mixture for topping. Pat remaining mixture evenly over bottom of 9-by-9-by-2-inch pan.

Spread fig filling evenly over crust. Sprinkle with reserved ½ cup topping.

Bake until lightly browned, about 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool in pan.

Yield: 25 bars.

From The California Fig Advisory Board.

Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 11/10/97 Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest by Nancy Berry <nlberry@...> on Feb 04, 1999, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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