Recipe - Smoke-Out Breakfast Bars

One half cup Butter or margarine
1 One fourth cup Brown sugar; packed
2 Eggs
1/3 cup Molasses
1 Three fourths cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
2 cup Oatmeal; (I think I used
regular but you could
probably use quick too)
One half cup Chopped walnuts
1 cup Raisins; or dried cherries,
or dried cranberries
1 cup Semisweet chocolate pieces
or chunks

from the "Marlboro Country Cookbook"

Combine sugar, butter, eggs, and molasses in a large mixing bowl. Stir
together flour, soda, salt, and cinnamon; add to first mixture and stir to
mix well. Stir in oatmeal, walnuts, raisins, and chocolate pieces. Spoon
into a greased 13 by 9 baking pan and bake in a 400 degree oven for 1215
minutes or until done(I think it took longer). Cut into bars to serve.
Makes 2 3 dozen bars.

My notes: Made with a berries and cherries mix from Sam's Club(dried
strawberries, blueberries, and cherries) and they were delicious. My friend
made hers with cranberries and loved them, but said mine were even better.
I used onlyOne half cup of chocolate chips, and added more fruit, to reduce fat.
You could also use miniature chips and use fewer chips too to spread out
the flavor and still reduce the fat a bit. I used fewer walnuts. You could
use pecans as well. These froze well, and you can even eat them a bit
frozen (I thawed them quickly in the micro once for lunch guests and they
turned out fine). These are RICH and I really would not make a whole
breakfast of them!

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by NavyDoc NavyDoc@aol.com on May 10, 1998