---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Dutch Apple Crumb Bars
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 16 servings
 
           -----crust-----
  1 1/2 c  Flour
    1/3 c  Sugar
    1/4 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Cold unsalted butter
      1    Egg yolk
  2 1/2 tb Cold water
           -----filling and top
           -ping-----
      3 c  Peeled cored and chopped
           Apples
    1/2 c  Chopped; pitted dates
    1/4 c  Flour
    1/3 c  Rolled oats
    1/3 c  Packed light brown sugar
    1/2 ts Cinnamon
      1 pn Salt
    1/4 c  Cold unsalted butter
           Cut into 4 pieces
 
  Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9x9 inch pan.  Combine flour, sugar, and
  salt in a food processor.  Add butter in pieces and process to make a fine
  meal.  Blend yolk and water.  Pour over dry ingredients and process until
  damp crumbs form.  Pat crumbs i
  nto bottom and halfway up sides of pan. Bake for 25 minutes.  Mix apples,
  dates, sugar, and lemon juice.  Spread evenly over crust.  Combine flour,
  oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add butter and rub it to make damp
  crumbs.  Cover apples with toppin
  g and pat gently.  Bake 40 minutes until golden brown.  Cool completely
  before slicing.
  >From Farmer's Almanac Cookie Lovers Calendar 1997
 
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