Rubarb Dream Bars

(title spelled as written — "Rubarb")

Crust

(the card notes at the top: "double receipe use 9x13 pan" — spelled as written) - 1 c. flour - 5 T. powdered sugar - 1 stick soft Butter

Mix together until crumbly. Press into 8×8 or 9×9 pan. Bake 350° 10–15 min.

Top

⚠ NO QUANTITIES ARE GIVEN FOR THE TOPPING ON THIS CARD. It names the ingredients only:

Mix eggs lightly, add sugar, flour, salt (sift together) & then rubard. (spelled as written) Pour over cooled crust. Bake 350° for 45 min or until set.

Notes

★ THIS IS A SECOND VERSION OF A RECIPE ALREADY IN THE BOX

See rhubarb-dream-dessert.md — same recipe, different card, different hand, different spelling of both the fruit and the title. The other card is complete and supplies exactly what this one is missing.

⚠ The topping quantities are absent from this card and are NOT copied in from the sibling. For the record, rhubarb-dream-dessert gives them as 2 beaten eggs · 1¼ c. sugar · ¼ c. flour · pinch of salt · 2 c. chopped rhubarb — but that is a different document, and merging the two into one "corrected" recipe would destroy the evidence that the family held two versions. They stay separate and cross-referenced. publish: needs-review so a person decides which one goes out, or whether both do.

The two cards differ in more than spelling, and the differences are the interesting part: - this one says butter, the other says margarine - this one bakes the crust 10–15 min, the other 15–20 min - this one adds "sift together" for the dry topping ingredients; the other does not - this one puts the doubling note at the top, as a heading; the other adds it at the bottom, as an afterthought

Two people wrote this recipe down at different times, and one of them was working from the other or from a shared source. Which came first is not knowable from the cards.

The bottom line sits on the scan's edge and is slightly clipped but fully legible.