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      Title: Apricot Bars From Butterfingers
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 1 servings
 
    2/3 c  Dried apricots
    1/2 c  Butter or margarine
    1/4 c  Sugar
      1 c  Flour
      2    Eggs; well-beaten
    1/2 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Vanilla
    1/2 c  Chopped walnuts
    1/4 ts Salt
      1 c  Packed brown sugar
    1/3 c  Flour
           Powdered sugar
 
  Rinse apricots, cover with water, boil 10 minutes.  Cool,
  drain and chop fine.  Mix butter, sugar and 1 cup flour
  until crumbly.  Pack into greased 8" square pan and bake at
  350 for 25 minutes until lightly browned.
  Sift 1/3 cup flour, baking powder, and salt.  Beat brown
  sugar gradually into eggs.  Add flour mixture and mix well.
   Add vanilla, nuts and apriocots.  Spread over baked layer
  and bake 30 minutes longer.  Cool in pan, cut into bars and
  roll carefully in powdered sugar.  These are not only
  pretty, they are absolutely luscious and rich. From the
  book Butterfingers.Jm
 
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