Oatmeal Fruit Bar Cookies
Ingredients
1 C. quick cooking rolled oats
1 C. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla
artificial sweetener to equal 1/2 C. sugar
1/2 C. shortening
2 C. fruit, canned, drained, water packed (save juice)
2 Tbsp. reserved fruit juice
Cooking Instructions
Mix all ingredients, except fruit and juice, until mixture becomes coarse crumbs. Add the fruit juice to hold crumbs together. Press 1/2 of the crumbs into an 8 by 8 inch square pan. Top with chopped or mashed fruit. Pat on remaining crumbs. Bake at 375 degrees F. for 30 minutes. Cut bars when cool.
While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is My body." (Matthew 26:26)
