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Oatmeal Date Squares

Hot oatmeal date squares! Yummy!

This recipe will make 25 squares. Each square will be topped with sticky chewy dates and bottomed with flaky warm oatmeal.

Ingredients
1cup chopped dates
½ cup water
½ cup brown sugar
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup oatmeal
½ cup sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 egg whites
1 cup brown sugar

Directions
1 Preheat oven to 350ºF.
2 Butter a square 8-inch baking pan. Sprinkle the bottom of the pan with oatmeal.
3 In a saucepan, boil dates with water and ½ cup brown sugar until mixture thickens. Remove from heat and cool.
4 In a bowl, combine butter, sugar, and egg yolks. Add vanilla extract, then flour and baking powder.
5 Pour batter into pan and top with dates.
6 In a separate bowl, beat egg whites into stiff peaks, add brown sugar and stir.
7 Pour egg whites over dates and bake 45 minutes. Cut into squares.

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Popular Date Varieties

derriedates

The peak season for dates is from mid autumn through mid winter, October through January in the northern hemisphere. Select plump, shiny dates. Stay away from dates that are too sticky or covered with crystallized sugar.

Most dates will need to be pitted before they can be used for cooking or eating out of hand. When you get ready to pit them, dust your knife blade with flour to keep the dates from sticking to the knife.

You can keep dates tightly wrapped in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks. Dry dates well packaged in plastic can be refrigerated for 10 to 12 months.

The Middle East produces most of the world’s dates. California grows most of the dates produced in North America

Here are the eight most popular date varieties:

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Dates

Is there anything tastier than a date oatmeal cookie?

Well, perhaps, a Deglet Noor date eaten out of hand. Or perhaps, a spinach, date, and orange salad with honey dressing. Or perhaps a date stuffed with cream cheese or Brie or with a mix of chopped apple and bacon.

You see, there are many ways to enjoy sweet, sticky dates. You can add them to roasting pork or chicken in the last 15 minutes of cooking or you can include them in holiday breads and cakes and puddings.

The date—the small, oblong fruit of the date palm tree--is intensely sweet. Its sugary concentration of flavor is akin to dried fruit. In fact, sometimes dates are dried, but usually you will find them most tasty fresh.

There are more than 100 varieties of dates. About 25 of those are found in markets. Each falls into one of three moisture and texture categories: soft, semidry, or dry.

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