Recipe - Chewy Fruit And Walnut Bars

1 cup Packed brown sugar
One half cup Margarine or butter; melted
1 teaspoon Grated orange peel
One fourth cup Orange juice or pineapple
juice
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 Eggs
2 cup Allpurpose flour*
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 pack Diced dried fruits and
raisins, (6 ounces)
Three fourths cup Chopped walnuts

*If using selfrising flour omit baking powder.

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease rectangular pan, 13 X 9 X 2 inches. Mix
brown sugar, margarine, orange peel, orange juice, vanilla and eggs. Stir
in flour and baking powder. Stir in dried fruits and walnuts. Spread batter
in pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes
out clean; cool. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired. Cut into 2 X
11/2inch bars. 32 BARS; 115 CALORIES PER BAR.

Recipe by: Betty Crocker's Cookbook

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 286 by "Diane Geary"
diane@keyway.net on Nov 22, 1997