Recipe - Dates Squares

1 One half cup Five Roses allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 One half cup Ogilvie quick oats
1 One half cup Brown sugar
1 cup Butter

DATE FILLING
1 pound Dates
Three fourths cup Hot water
One fourth cup Sugar
1 pn Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Prepare filling first. Combine dates, hot water, sugar and salt together in
a saucepan. Cook over medium heat until dates are soft and water is
absorbed; add vanilla and let cool. Stir flour and baking soda together;
add to oats and brown sugar and mix well. Work in butter with fork until
mixture is crumbly. Spread One half the mixture in bottom of a greased 9" square
pan (for thinner date squares use a larger pan, 9x13") and pat down; cover
with cooled date filling. Pat One half of remaining mixture on top; then
sprinkle over lightly with remainder. Bake in a moderate oven (350F) 20 to
25 minutes.

NOTES : I do not know the exact title of the cookbook. It is one of Mom's.
In the years since she has had it, it has had the covers, index and
possibly a few recipes go missing (it starts on p. 13). It has one of the
old spiral bindings where you could fold the book so that only one page
showed. You can also tell which recipes were used repeatedly due to the
ingredients all over the page. :)
Recipe by: Five Roses Cookbook

Posted to BakeryShoppe Digest by "2twins" twotwins@netcom.ca on Apr 1,
1998