{"id":4974,"date":"2009-11-08T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/\/wp\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2009-11-13T21:11:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T02:11:34","slug":"huckleberry-friendship-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=4974","title":{"rendered":"Huckleberry Friendship Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After I published my Huckleberry Friend<\/a> post about Johnny Mercer the other day one of my readers expressed her disappointment that I hadn\u2019t included a huckleberry recipe.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Amazingly, I\u00a0had been\u00a0so busy expressing myself as a chanteuse that the cook part of me had failed to make that connection!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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So I\u2019m rectifying the omission here. Many thanks to Cathy for the idea. I hope the students and teachers at Huckleberry Hill School like these bars.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Since I didn\u2019t have huckleberries on hand I made the bars\u00a0with the huckleberry\u2019s close cousin, the blueberry.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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If your berries aren’t very juicy, you may want to add a little liquid (see the Gathered Blessings comment below) and\/or reduce the amout of cornstarch.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Ingredients:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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3 generous cups huckleberries or blueberries (you may use frozen ones, but defrost them before cooking!)
\n1\/2 cup sugar
\n1 tablespoon lemon juice
\n1 teaspoon vanilla
\n2 tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved in 1\/4 cup water
\n1-1\/2 cups uncooked oatmeal
\n1-1\/2 cups flour
\n1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
\n1\/2 teaspoon baking soda
\n1 teaspoon cinnamon
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt
\n3\/4 cup (1-1\/2 sticks) sweet butter<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Instructions:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with aluminum foil, and grease the foil.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In a saucepan combine the berries, sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla. Add the cornstarch paste and cook over low heat , stirring constantly, until the sauce thickens. Set it aside to cool.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In a medium bowl mix the dry ingredients and cut the butter into the mixture. Pat 3\/4 of this crumb mixture into a the prepared baking dish. Add the fruit mixture. Sprinkle the remaining crumbs on top. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Cool the bars thoroughly before removing the foil and slicing. Makes from 16 to 32 bars, depending on your slicing skills.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Johnny Mercer looks for a good huckleberry recipe (Savannah Morning News).<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0 After I published my Huckleberry Friend post about Johnny Mercer the other day one of my readers expressed her disappointment that I hadn\u2019t included a huckleberry recipe. \u00a0 Amazingly, I\u00a0had been\u00a0so busy expressing myself as a chanteuse that the cook part of me had failed to make that connection! \u00a0 So I\u2019m rectifying the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[547,13,16],"tags":[856,857,859,860,854,858],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}