DATE SQUARES

Steps:

• Mix and sift flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Stir in brown sugar. Work in butter with fingertips until well blended. Lightly stir in rolled oats.
• Press half of the mixture into bottom of a buttered 11 x 7 x 1 1/2 inch baking pan.
• Simmer dates, water and sugar in a saucepan about 35 minutes or until mixture thickens. Stir occasionally. Add vanilla.
• Pour over mixture in baking pan. Sprinkle with remaining curmb mixture. Bake in oven at 300 f for 30 minutes. Cool. Cut into squares. Makes forty 1 1/2 inch squares.
• NOTE: 1 1/4 hours time allocated includes prep time.