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Great Grandma's Lemon Bars

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Ingredients

1 cup shortening
1-3/4 cups sugar
4 eggs, one at a time, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 can lemon pie filling

Instructions

Mix shortening, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, baking powder and salt and spread half of mixture on jelly roll pan. Spread lemon pie filling over dough and spread remaining dough over top. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Ruth Ehlers


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1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.




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