Date Bars

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour (half all-purpose & half whole wheat pastry flour)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup dates, finely chopped or preferably ground with a meat grinder