Linzer Bar - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 3/4 cups unsifted flour
    1/4 cup sugar
    1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
    1/2 teaspoon baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, Ground
    1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
    1/4 cup dark corn syrup
    1 egg, slightly beaten
    1/2 cup raspberry jam or 1/2 cup preserves
    2 tablespoons flour
Preparation
    In a large bowl stir together flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
    With a pastry blender or two knives use scissor style, cut in butter or margarine until coarse crumbs form.
    With a fork stir in corn syrup and egg just until mixed.
    Reserve 1/2 cup batter.
    Press remaining batter into a 9x9x2-inch baking pan.
    spread with jam.
    Stir 2 tablespoons flour into the reserved batter.
    If preparing a lattice add a couple tablespoons of water - one at a time - to make the dough easy to roll out. If you are dropping the dough by spoonfulls then just evenly scatter the top \"crust\" over the jam for a \"spotty\" look and bake.
    On a floured surface roll out to 1/4-inch thickness.
    Cut into 1/4-inch wide strips.
    Lattice strips over jam.
    Bake in 375-degree oven 30 minutes, or until set. Cool.
    Cut into bars. Serving size is really up to you - cut into as many bars as you want.

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