Cooking Recipe Coconut Dream Bars
Recipe Ingredients
BUTTERSCOTCH BASE
1/3 c
Shortening; soft
1/3 c
Brown sugar, firmly packed
3/4 c
Sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 ts
Soda
1/2 ts
Salt
3/4 c
Quaker Oats, uncooked (quick or old-fashioned)
COCONUT TOPPING
2
Eggs
1 c
Brown sugar, firmly packed
1 tb
All-purpose flour
1 tb
Lemon juice
1
Lemon; grated peel only
1 c
Shredded coconut
1/2 c
Chopped pecans
Directions
For base, beat shortening and sugar together until creamy. Sift
together flour, soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture; blend well.
Stir in oats. (This mixture will be very dry and crumbly.) Pat into a
greased 11 x 7-inch baking pan.
For topping, beat eggs slightly. Blend in remaining ingredients.
Pour over base. Bake in preheated moderate oven (350 F.) about 30
minutes. Cool; cut in bars.
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permission from The Quaker Oats Company Electronic format courtesy of
Karen Mintzias