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Cookies: Coconut Dream Bars

Source of Recipe

Quaker Oats Company


List of Ingredients

-----BUTTERSCOTCH BASE-----
1/3 c Shortening -- soft
1/3 c Brown sugar, firmly packed
3/4 c Sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 t Soda
1/2 t 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


Recipe

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 (350ºF.) about 30 minutes. Cool; cut in bars.