Anything with the word 'English' or 'strawberry' in it,
I jump at the chance to use, make it, be it, bake it – anything,
really. So when I came across a recipe for 'Old-English Matrimonials'
I knew I had to make them!
The name for these bars comes from –
you guessed it – weddings! The reason being that these bars are
both smooth in parts, and lumpy in others, just like marriage. They
were traditionally served at weddings.
For our sweet-satisfaction, though,
Old-English Matrimonials are essentially an oat-y-buttery-base topped
with a layer of jam, then covered in an oat-like crumble topping.
Yum!
The recipe that I used contained ¾ cup
butter, but for my taste it was way too much, so for the recipe here I've reduced that to ½ cup, but feel free to do either :)
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Recipe:
Preheat your oven to 160°C/
325°F
and line a square pan (at least 2 inches deep) with baking paper.
In
a large bowl, combine 1 ¼ cups of plain flour, 1 cup packed brown
sugar, 1 ½ cups rolled oats, ½ teaspoon of salt, and ½ cup of
melted butter.
Pat
half of this mixture into the pan so that it is a solid mass of
biscuit.
Spread
¾ cup berry jam over the base. (I used a strawberry jam that had
bits of fruit in it).
Carefully drop balls of the remaining
oat mixture onto the bar, and spread it about so that it covers all
the jam.
Bake for 40-45 minutes, then cut into
bars when cooled.
p.s. Please make these, they are
amazingly good!
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