Springtime Squares Recipe

  Vegetable

Ingredients:
Crust:
1 cup quick oats
1/3 cup finely chopped nuts
1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted

Filling:
3 cups cut up rhubarb
1 1/4 cups water or orange juice
1 (6 ounce) package strawberry Jell-O
1 cup sliced strawberries
1 cup heavy cream, whipped

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. For crust: line a 9-inch square baking pan with foil, extending ends over edges of pan. Grease lightly or spray with non-stick spray. Combine crust ingredients and mix until crumbly. Press into bottom of prepared pan. Bake 10 - 12 minutes or until browned. Cool completely.
Meanwhile, simmer rhubarb in water or orange juice until tender. Pour into a large bowl and immediately stir in Jell-O. Mix until dissolved. Stir in strawberries. Chill about 1 hour, or until slightly thickened. Fold whipped cream into rhubarb mixture. Chill until thickened, but still soft enough to just mound when dropped from a spoon. Spoon into cooled crust. Chill until firm. Cut into squares and top each serving with addiional sweetened whipped cream.
9 servings.

Springtime Squares
 

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