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cookies and bars

Carrot and cheese bars

Another version of a carrot and cheese cake I made a couple of years ago;  eating a bar feels more virtuous! INGREDIENTS: 9″x9″ pan (or larger) 2 large eggs 6 ounces oil 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup raw sugar or regular 1 tablespoon of grape molasses (optional) or honey 1 tablespoon of orange rind (optional) [...]
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Grape molasses sticks (Kaak)

  Grape molasses is the most fascinating food to come out of Lebanon; I can tell you the exact moment when I became passionately interested in this food: It was when my mom’s old friend, an energetic and sprightly 84-year old gave me some to taste that she had made in her tiny kitchen in [...]
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Fruit oatmeal bars

Had to do something with all these fruits! Pears, quince, apples, all stored in the veggie bin and all getting a tad old. The neat thing with this recipe is it will work with any fruit, raw or stewed; so I used some stewed pears and quince and some apple, here and there.  INGREDIENTS: makes [...]
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Oatmeal date squares

My daughter is going to college full-time  and working (tutoring English in a remedial school here) and comes home famished; these oatmeal and date bars should help, don’t you think? By the way, if you have a Middle-Eastern grocer nearby, they most likely stock date paste in a package, saving you the trouble of making [...]
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Grape molasses and almond shortbread cookies

There is a village called Barouk in the Shouf mountains  in which I discovered homemade pastries made by the store owner’s mother and his sisters. These cookies, called lawzieh (from lawz, almond) are  a traditional almond shortbread cookie very popular in that region. INGREDIENTS: 125 g. unsalted butter (4 oz.) at room temperature 1 large egg, room temperature 3 [...]
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