Cooking Recipe Cranberry Bars
Recipe Ingredients
DOUGH
FILLING
Directions
For Dough: Combine flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. In large
bowl, beat butter, sugar and oil. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add flour
mixture to egg mixture and mix until dough feels quite firm. Wrap
half the dough in plastic wrap and freeze for about 30 minutes. Press
remaining dough evenly on bottom of 13x9-inch shallow baking pan;
place in freezer.
For Filling: In heavy saucepan, combine all the filling ingredients
except hazelnuts; bring to a boil over medium heat and cook for about
8 minutes or until mixture has thickened, stirring frequently. Remove
from heat and stir in hazelnuts; let cool.
Spread cranberry filling evenly over dough in baking pan. Remove doug
from freezer and grate coarsely; sprinkle over top of cranberry
filling. Bake at 350 F for 45 minutes or until top is golden brown
and the sides have pulled away from pan. Place on rack and
immediately run a knife around the edge of pan. Leave for 20 minutes,
then cut into bars and let cool completely.
Makes 18 bars. Origin: Cooking with fruit by Rolce Redard Payne and
Dorrit Speyer Senior
Source: The Vancouver Sun Sept 21/94
From the collection of Karen Deck