Recipe - Cranberry Orange Squares with Barley Flour

Alberta Barley - a hearty, healthy choice!

Cranberry Orange Squares These squares are colourful, sweet, and very tasty.
1 ½ cups ¾ cup ¾ cup ¾ tsp ¾ tsp ¾ cup	whole barley flour all purpose flour sugar baking powder salt butter	375 mL 175 mL 175 mL 4 mL 4 mL 175 mL
2 ½ cup 1 tsp	eggs milk almond extract	2 125 mL 5 mL
1 can	can whole berry cranberry sauce	398 mL
½ cup 1 ½ cups 2 Tbsp 1 Tbsp	raisins sifted icing sugar orange juice grated orange rind	125 mL 375 mL 30 mL 15 mL

Stir together dry ingredients, then cut in butter until butter is in pea-size pieces. Beat eggs, milk and extract together and add to flour mixture. In a separate bowl, mix cranberry sauce and raisins.

Grease the bottom of a 13" x 9" (33 x 21 cm) pan. Spread half the dough mixture in pan. Spread cranberry mixture evenly on top. Drop remaining dough by small spoonfuls over entire surface (cranberry mixture will not be entirely covered by remaining dough). Bake for 25 - 30 minutes in a 400° F (200° C) oven. Allow to cool slightly, and stir icing sugar, juice, and orange rind together in the meantime. Drizzle glaze over top while square is slightly warm. Cut into squares once it has cooled.

From:

Nardene Park
White Rock, B.C.