One of the best things about our cookbook is that it is full of recipes that have very typical ingredients that most homes have. Here’s one of our favorites that we whip up often. Enjoy!

1 cup flour

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 c oat meal (any kind)

1 Tbsp cinnamon

1/2 cup butter, melted

Filling:

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup water

1 tsp vanilla

2 Tbsp corn starch

4 cups fresh fruit, chopped

Mix first 5 ingredients set aside. In a sauce pan melt together the filling; sugar, water, vanilla, corn starch. (Not fresh fruit yet.)

Keep stirring until mixture thickens, remove from heat. Grease a 9 by 9 inch pan.

Take 2/3 of the flour mixture and press it into pan. Lay fresh fruit over, now pour cooked starch mixture over fruit, now pour remaining flour mixture over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes or browned on edges. Enjoy!!

We really like this recipe and serve it before we have to run out the door in the afternoon for an activity. We like to use 1/2 whole wheat flour in this recipe, so that would be 1/2 cup white and 1/2 cup whole wheat. We love to make this with rhubarb or apple. Try using a quart of pie filling instead of the homemade filling offered here or try jam, if you do this you may want to cut down on the cinnamon as cinnamon can be strong with other fruit.
We also double this to make it fit a 9 by 13 inch pan.

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