Peanut Butter Granola Bars

Hey Bri!
This is what I was buying ingredients for when I ran into you at the store. I estimate it cost me about 7 dollars to make about 3 pounds of granola bars. They taste yummy! I had to think of a way to cut down on how much I was spending on snacks for your brother. I think next time I will try making them with the raisin and granola cereal and adding a couple of teaspoons of cinnamon.

Peanut Butter Granola Bars

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup honey

½ cup butter

6 cups granola 9 I used Quaker 100% Natural

½ cup chocolate chips, optional (must be frozen)

Directions:

Line a 9 X 13 dish with foil. Pour granola in large bowl and toss with 3/8 cup hot water.

Combine in heavy Dutch oven butter, peanut butter and honey. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook , stirring constantly, for 3 minutes. Remove from heat.

Toss granola again before adding to peanut butter mixture. If adding chocolate chips wait about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, letting mixture cool before adding the chocolate chips. Press flat in pan, refrigerate until chilled. Cut into bars.

Recipes

My daughters are grown. My mom is in Florida. This blog seems like a great place for us to share recipes. Every time I get a good collection of recipes together, my computer crashes. I tried to save these precious volumes on disc but I tend to destroy the CDs. Let's see if this works!

I always believed that this was a family recipe because I remember being raised on these. Alas! credit must go to the Betty Crocker cookbook (my mom and I both owned one). I usually make a double batch and freeze half. Just throw it into a ziploc bag.

Egg Noodles

Ingredients:

2 cups Flour

2 tsp salt

3 egg yolks

1 egg

1/3 cup water

Directions:

Combine flour and salt. Make a well in center of flour, add eggs. Blend, adding water a tablespoon at a time until mixture sticks together. Roll out on floured board as thin as possible. Slice 1/8-1/4 inch wide. Dry on towel 10 minutes (if using immediately) to 2 hours (if freezing).