Date Bars
"This is a recipe my mother made in the 1950's. I have tried many other date bar recipes but none compare to this one."
photo by Marlene.
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 1⁄2 cups quick oats
- 1 cup oleo
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FILLING
- 8 ounces pitted dates, chopped
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Combine the flour, soda, salt, oats, oleo, and sugar into a crumb-like mixture; spread 1/2 of mixture in a greased 13x9 pan.
- Combine the filling ingredients together, except the vanilla.
- Cook this mixture until thick.
- Cool. Now add the vanilla.
- Spread on crumb crust, put the other 1/2 of the oat mixture on top of the date mixture.
- Bake at 350°F for 45 minutes.
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Reviews
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A favorite at our house! It took approx. 10 minutes to cook the dates down on a lower medium setting on my gas stove. I can almost say I'd love to have a double batch of date filling in them , now that I'm older! LOL Great recipe Rose of Sharon , thank you for posting! -
Trying these now. Will update later.
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Yup this date bar re ipe is the best
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Simply the best!! I put the filling ingredients in the blender and pureed them (I used whole pitted dates) then cooked it in the microwave. I did add 10 minutes to the baking time but they are by far the best date bars I have ever made. -
Never did get around to making these over the winter holidays, but they're definitely on my list in another 11 months! In the meantime, however, we're enjoying my first-time effort immensely ~ These are certainly some of the best tasting date bars I've ever had! Made them with my ol' favorite, Medjool dates, & they were particularly moist & chewy! And, as soon as I get another container of those dates, I'll be making these great tasties again! Definitely a keeper of a recipe! [Made & reviewed in Zaar Cookbook tag]
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