Breakfast Granola - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 c. old-fashioned rolled oats
1/3 c. honey or molasses
1/4 c. vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. chopped nuts
3/4 c. Bran cereal (we like Nabisco 100% Bran)
1 c. flaked coconut
1 c. chopped dates
1 c. raisins
1 c. sunflower seeds

Preparation

Spread rolled oats on a 15 x 10-inch baking pan.
Toast in 350\u00b0 oven for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine honey and vegetable oil in a saucepan.
Heat but do not boil.
Stir in vanilla. Remove oats from oven.
Toss with nuts, bran, coconut and sunflower seeds.
Pour hot honey mixture over oat mixture.
Toss well.
Return to oven and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, stirring 3 to 4 times while baking.
Remove from oven; add raisins and dates. Stir well.
Cool.
Store in airtight container.