Recipe - Patty Anns Lucious Apricot Bars

2/3 cup Dried Apricots

CRUST
One half cup Butter Or Margarine;
softened
One fourth cup Granulated Sugar
1 cup Flour; sifted

FILLING
1/3 cup Flour; sifted
One half teaspoon Baking Powder
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 cup Brown Sugar; packed
2 Eggs; well beaten
One half teaspoon Vanilla Extract
One half cup Walnuts Or Pecans; chopped

Oven 350ø F.

Cover apricots with water. Boil 10 minutes. Drain, cool, chop. Grease 7
x 11inch pan. Mix until crumbly butter, sugar, and 1 cup flour. Pack
evenly in pan. Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Sift together 1/3
cup flour, pabing powder, and salt. Beat eggs and brown sugar together. Add
flour mixture, vanilla, apricots, and nuts. Spread over baked layer. Bake
30 minutes or until done. Cool in pan. Cut in bars. Roll in 4x sugar.

Store in tin box between layers of wax paper.
Recipe By : Patty Ann Spalding

Posted to EATL Digest 28 October 96

Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 06:10:49 0500

From: Bill Spalding billspa@ICANECT.NET