Recipe - Date Bars

One half cup Margerine or butter
One fourth cup Shortening
1 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Brown sugar
1 Three fourths cup Flour
One half teaspoon Soda
1 One half cup Oatmeal

TOPPING
3 cup (1 pound) cut up dates
One fourth cup White sugar
1 One half cup Water

Mix well all of the above. Press One half the mixture in a 13 x 9 inch pan that
has been greased. Save the other One half back. Make the topping, and press
lightly down.

Topping: Cook over low heat in a saucepan for about 10 minutes. Then spread
evenly on the bottom layer, (as indicated above).

Take the set aside oat mixture, spread evenly over the top, press down
lightly. Bake at 400 for 2530 minutes. Cool. Then cut into bars.

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by "Dave&Kim"
davekim@cdsnet.net on Mar 9, 1997.