Title: Apricot-Walnut Bars
Categories: Cookie Fruit Nut
Yield: 12 Bars

3/4	c	Dried Apricots
		Water
1 1/3	c	Flour
1/4	c	Sugar
1/2	c	Butter
2		Eggs; well beaten
1	c	Brown Sugar
1/2	ts	Baking Powder
1/4	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Vanilla
1/2	c	Walnuts; chopped

In a saucepan, cover apricots with water and bring to a boil; then simmer 10 minutes. Drain and let cool. Chop apricots. Sift 1 cup flour with sugar into a bowl, then cut butter into it until it is like coarse cornmeal. Pack into a 9 x 9 x 2" pan. Bake for 25 minutes at 325øF.

Combine eggs and brown sugar, 1/3 cup flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, waluts, and apricots and stir well in a medium bowl. Spread over baked layer and bake 35 minutes at 325øF. Coll, and cut into bars.

Source: Shelby Lynne Smith of Stinson Beach, Ca. Typed by Katherine Smith

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