Recipe: Oatmeal and Brown Sugar Granola Bars

Oatmeal and Brown Sugar Granola Bars
misc.consumers/Fiona (1997)

5 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup dry milk
1/8 tsp cinnammon (but I just shake some in until it seems like enough)

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup raisins (optional)

Mix oatmeal, dry milk, and cinnammon (you need a pretty big bowl for stirring 5 cups of oats). In a saucepan, combine brown sugar, honey, and veggie oil; stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Combine liquid with dry ingredients; stir until most of the dry ingredients have at least touched the wet ingredients (use a spoon, not a whisk; this part will give your arm a workout). Put in a 9x12 baking pan or glass dish (sprayed with nonstick spray) and bake about 10 minutes at 375 degrees. To get the raisins into the bars, you have to kind of moosh them afterwards in while the granola is still hot from baking, and press the granola down after mixing in raisins to make sure your bars don't fall apart.