Ingredients
- 350 oven
- 30 s recipes was extremely swee todays versions reduce the sugar in the filling
- 1/2 onto bottom
- 2 c dates
- 1 1/2 c rolled oats
- 1 c brown sugar
- 1 1/2 c flour
- 3/4 c butter
- 1/2 c sugar
- 1 ts lemon juice
- 1/2 ts baking soda
- 1/4 ts salt
- some old cookbooks is called date sandwich cake
MAKES: 36 SQUARES VARIATION: Mincemeat Squares : Use 2 cups mincemeat instead of date filling. SOURCE: _A Century of Canadian Home Cooking: 1900 Through the 90s" by Carol Ferguson and Margaret Fraser
