Cranberry chews

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       Title: Cranberry Chews
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 60 servings
  
            Grant; hwwk11b
   2 1/3 c  Flour
       1 c  Brown sugar; packed
       1 ts Cinnamon
     1/2 ts Nutmeg
     1/4 ts Cloves
     1/2 ts Salt
       1 c  Butter, cold; in 16 pieces
   1 1/2 c  Rolled oats
      16 oz Cranberry sauce-whole berrie
     1/2 c  Orange marmalade; thick
       1 ts Vanilla extract
       1 c  Walnuts; chopped
  
   DESCRIPTION:  Chewy Cranberry Oat Bars with an oat-nut topping.
   
    Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 10x15 jellyroll pan (9x13 okay). In a large
   bowl, combine 2 c flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt.
   Cut in butter until resembles coarse meal. Stir in oats. Reserve 1 1/2 c
   of mixture. Firmly press remainder in bottom of prepared pan. Bake 15
   minutes. Cool 10 minutes before filling. In medium bowl, stir together
   cranberry sauce, marmalade and vanilla.  Slowly add remaining 1/3 C flour,
   blending thoroughly. Spread evenly over baked and cooled crust. Add nuts
   to reserved oat mixture, sprinkle over top of cranberry filling. Bake 30
   minutes or until lightly browned. Cool in pan on rack. Cut into 64 bars.
   Store in airtight container one week, freeze for longer storage. From "The
   Joy of Cookies." Formatted by Theresa Grant, HWWK11b.
  
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