---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02
 
      Title: HIKER BARS
 Categories: Usenet
      Yield: 1 batch
 
    1/2 c  Peanut butter, chunky
    1/3 c  Butter
      2 md Bananas, (mashed)
    1/2 c  Molasses
      1 c  Sugar
      2 t  Vanilla
      4    Eggs
      1 t  Cinnamon
    1/4 t  Ginger
    2/3 c  Flour, whole-wheat
  1 1/3 c  Flour, white
      4 c  Kellogg's Special K
           -cereal (crushed)
      1 t  Baking powder
    1/4 t  Baking soda
    1/2 t  Salt
      6 oz Chocolate chips
      1 c  Peanuts, salted (chopped)
      8 oz Dates, chopped (or fewer)
 
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Then by hand:  In a large bowl cream
  together peanut butter and butter. Mix in bananas, molasses, sugar and
  vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg.
  
  Stir in the cereal.  Sift together dry ingredients and mix into batter. Add
  chips, peanuts and dates.  Pour batter into greased 9 x 13 pan.  Bake in
  preheated 350 degree F. oven for 35 to 45 minutes.  Cut into bars.
  
  NOTES:
  
  *  Caloric, filling and tasty bars for the trail -- These bars give a
  flavorful and filling treat along the trail.  The recipe came from Ben
  Branch of AT&T Bell Labs at Columbus (cbdkc1!blb). Yield: 24 to 48 bars.
  
  *  If by food processor:  Yield:  Cream butters in processor.  Add cut-up
  bananas and blend..
  
  *  Add molasses, sugar, vanilla.  Blend.  Add eggs.  Blend.
  
  *  Pour batter into large bowl and stir in sifted dry ingredients.  Stir in
  other ingredients, one at a time.  Continue as above.
  
  : Difficulty:  easy to moderate.
  : Time:  1/2 to 1 hour work; 1 hour waiting.
  : Precision:  approximate measurement OK.
  
  : John Daleske
  : AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
  : {ihnp4,cbosgd,desoto}!cbdkc1!daleske
  
  : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust
 
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