Date Bars - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups quick oats
1 cup oleo
FILLING
8 ounces pitted dates, chopped
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

Combine the flour, soda, salt, oats, oleo, and sugar into a crumb-like mixture; spread 1/2 of mixture in a greased 13x9 pan.
Combine the filling ingredients together, except the vanilla.
Cook this mixture until thick.
Cool. Now add the vanilla.
Spread on crumb crust, put the other 1/2 of the oat mixture on top of the date mixture.
Bake at 350\u00b0F for 45 minutes.