{"id":1092,"date":"2021-02-18T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2021-02-18T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:11:19","slug":"newfoundland-date-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/newfoundland-date-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"Newfoundland Date Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is very popular in NFLD.\u00a0 A &#8220;must have&#8221; with afternoon tea!<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Ingredients<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FILLING:<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 &#8211; 3 c pitted dates, chopped coarsely<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c salted butter<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 c sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp vanilla<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp lemon flavouring<\/li>\n<li>3 tbsp or so of orange juice (squeeze 1\/2 of an orange)<\/li>\n<li>2 c boiling water<\/li>\n<li>BASE AND TOPPING:<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 c rolled oats<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 c flour<\/li>\n<li>1 c brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 c butter, soft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put the ingredients for the filling into a saucepan and bring to a boil.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce to simmer and cook for about 20 minutes or until mixture forms a soft paste. Stir often and make sure it doesn&#8217;t burn in last few minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from heat and let cool.<\/li>\n<li>When ready to continue, heat oven to 325F.<\/li>\n<li>Take a 13&#8243; x 9&#8243; pan and grease very well, especially the corners<\/li>\n<li>In a large bowl, mix the BASE ingredients.\u00a0 Use your fingers to break up the butter and make the mixture evenly crumbly.<\/li>\n<li>Spread 1\/2 to 2\/3&#8217;s of the mixture into the pan and press down firmly all over.<\/li>\n<li>Spread the filling evenly over the base.<\/li>\n<li>Spread the remaining crumb mixture on top, lightly pressing into the filling.<\/li>\n<li>Bake for 30 &#8211; 40 min.\u00a0 Base should be slightly brown. Topping shouldn&#8217;t be brown.<\/li>\n<li>Let the pan cool before cutting into squares.<\/li>\n<li>Store in an airtight container.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<p>Thanks to lordbyron&#8217;skitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very popular in NFLD.\u00a0 A &#8220;must have&#8221; with afternoon tea! Thanks to lordbyron&#8217;skitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-squares"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7VfK8-hC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivereats.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}