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This recipe is ane I've been making since college. It's super slow in addition to yous tin laid upwardly it inward no fourth dimension at all. I've made a few adjustments to it over the years. Most importantly, don't work jelly, work skilful jam, or improve yet, work preserves. I used Oregon Growers delicious Cherry Zinfandel preserves for this batch. It's non boozy, but it has a not-too-sweet adult grapheme that lends itself non merely to desserts but also to savory preparations. The master copy recipe called for margarine, but every bit yous tin imagine, it's much improve amongst butter.
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Jam Bars
Makes xvi squares
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all piece of work unbleached flour
1/2 loving cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 egg
1 loving cup fruit jam or preserves (strawberry or cherry are good)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flour, sugar, baking pulverization in addition to tabular array salt inward a large mixing bowl. Cut inward the butter, until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir inward the egg to classify a crumbly dough. Grease a 9-inch baking pan in addition to press inward 3/4 of the mixture onto the bottom of the pan. Top amongst jam in addition to evenly spread close but non quite to the edges of the pan since the jam volition spread every bit it bakes. Top amongst the remaining crumb mixture. Transfer to oven in addition to bake for xxx minutes or until pale golden brown. Let cool in addition to cutting into xvi squares.
Enjoy!
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