Apricot Crunch Bars - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 c. rolled oats
1 c. brown sugar, firmly packed
3/4 c. butter
1 1/2 c. apricot jam
2 tsp. grated lemon peel

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375\u00b0.
Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in oats and sugar.
Cut in butter and stir until mixed and crumbly.
Pack 2/3 of pastry into bottom of 7 x 11-inch pan. Combine jam and peel; spread over pastry.
Sprinkle remaining pastry evenly over top.
Bake 25 minutes and cool in pan.
Cut in squares.