Recipe - Apricot Bites

Three fourths cup Dried apricots
1 cup Water
One half cup Margarine
One fourth cup Sugar
1 1/3 cup Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Baking powder
1 cup Packed brown sugar
2 lg Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

* Grease an 8inch square baking dish with margarine.

1. Place apricots and 1 cup water into a saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce
heat and simmer 1015 minutes until apricots are tender. Drain and let
cool. 2. Fit steel knife blade into the work bowl of a food processor. Into
the work bowl combine margarine, granulated sugar and 1 cup flour. Process
until smooth. Spread into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Bake 25
minutes at 350 degrees. 3. With steel knife still attached, process drained
apricots until chopped into 1/4inch pieces. Add 1/3 cup flour, baking
powder, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla. Process until mixed well, about 68
seconds. 4. Remove crust from oven, spread apricot mixture evenly over
baked crust and return to oven for 30 minutes longer. 5. Let cool, then cut
into 2inch squares.

Yield: 16 twoinch squares.

Recipe By : Jo Anne Merrill

From: Ladies Home Journal August 1991

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