Edinburgh Squares
"This recipe from Scotland makes a gorgeous looking bar and sounds sooo good! It comes from "The Joy of Cookies" by Sharon Tyler Herbst. You can use chopped apricots in place of the currants or cherries if you can't find them. Cook time includes cooling the crust. Prep time is a guess, since I've never made this."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Yields:
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70 bars
- Serves:
- 70
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cold butter, cut into 16 pieces
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cup dried currant
- 1 cup candied cherry, rinsed in hot water, thoroughly drained and finely chopped
- 1 cup shredded coconut (or flaked)
- 2 cups chopped walnuts
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped crystallized ginger
- 1⁄2 cup butter, melted and cooled
- 1⁄2 cup lyle's golden syrup
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon lyle's golden syrup
- 1 -2 tablespoon orange juice or 1 -2 tablespoon milk
directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees farenheit. Lightly grease a 10 x 15-inch jelly-roll pan.
- To prepare crust, combine oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, ginger and salt in a large bowl. Use a pastry blender or two knives to cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in eggs. Turn dough into prepared pan and use a rubber spatula to spread evenly over bottom.
- Bake crust for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven; cool on a rack for 10 minutes.
- To prepare filling, combine currants, cherries, coconut, nuts and ginger in a large bowl; set aside. In a medium bowl, stir together butter, golden syrup and eggs. Add to fruit-nut mixture and stir to combine. Spread evenly over baked crust.
- Bake 22 to 27 minutes, or until golden brown. Cook on rack.
- To prepare glaze, combine sugar and golden syrup in a medium bowl. Stir in enough orange juice or milk to make a smooth, creamy glaze of medium consistency. Drizzle glaze over cooled cookies. Let glaze set before cutting into 70 (about 1 1/2") squares, cutting 7 strips one way and 10 strips the other way. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week or freeze for longer storage.
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Reviews
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I cannot really fairly give stars as I mixed this all together as one bar slice and did not do the 2 layers - I used the correct ingredients but accidentally dropped the fruit into the dough - typically did not have my mind on the job - so had to continue on . The result was 5 stars though - great dried fruit combo !!
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***09-02-2007 UPDATE*** I will soon be moving again. Finally, I will be out on my own. Just imagine what culinary adventures I will embark on then! I also have been admitted into the baking program at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California and am also attending my first semester at California State University, Fullerton. I have two years left before I can get my BA in English and one more year following that before I have my teaching credentials. Then I will be off to teach high school English while I wait to gather the needed money and experience to open my own dream bakery!
***02-08-2007 UPDATE*** I went out looking for a job and, on the first application I turned in, the lady interviewed me right on the spot and gave me the job. I am now an ICING MAKER!!!! I make the icing for the cookie bouquets that can be found on www.cookiesbydesign.com . She has also since taught me to bake the cookies, as well as how to process the sales and assembly of the cookie bouquets. All I have left to learn is how to decorate them (although I have already done some lettering on the message cookies).
***02-02-2007 UPDATE*** I now live with one of my good friends from back in high school. Her family offered to help me out by letting me live with them while I attend college down in Southern California. I just transfered down here with intent to start at the California State University of Fullerton in the fall. Getting a computer to work around here is a toughie, so I won't be able to post or message as often as I was when I lived with my grandparents. I'll do my best, though!
I LOVE to bake! I would really like to have a bakery someday. I don't get to try out as many recipes as I used to now that I live with a friend from high school and her family. Food Network is about the only TV I watch anymore and I have a growing cookbook collection. Cooking is my comfort and, surprisingly enough, I've found that I eat FAR less when I make it myself. Thats TWO great benefits!
I seem to have a little obsession, though, with collecting cookbooks. I guess it is getting pretty bad when I have to sneak new cookbooks into the house and hide them in the towel closet in my bathroom so my grandma doesn't see them and tell me I'm crazy for bringing another cookbook home. I buy all my cookbooks at thrift stores, garage sales, library sales, etc. I especially love old cookbooks and cookbooks from church, school, or charity groups.
A lot of the recipes I submit are recipes from my many cookbooks that I haven't tried yet. Since most of my cookbooks are in storage right now, I need to get rid of as many of these cookbooks as I can. I plan to save the recipes I want before donating the cookbooks back to the library.
My obligatory chunkett (that's probably not a word, but I use it ALL the time) about my other half because I love him so much: My boyfriend now lives about 20 minutes away from me since I moved back down to Southern California. Before my move, we were about 5-6 hours apart (I still can't believe we went through that for over a year!). We have been friends for years but lost touch during the 4 years that he went to college. He graduated June 2005 and we got back in touch that July. We have been dating since December 2, 2005 and are a pretty idyllic match thus far. He is one of my best friends. He gave me a promise ring 4-8-06 and we do plan to get married. The only thing holding us back is my dad's single wish that I graduate college before I get married. This is the only guy he has ever liked that I have dated, so I figure a few more years isn't that long to wait. Life would be so very different if something happened and he were to be taken away from me.....
Anyway, onward ho!
Gosh, I love food!
