Oat Snack Mix

½ cup butter
¼ cup brown sugar
½ teaspoon salt
⅓ cup honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Melt until dissolved; drizzle over the following:

4 cups Quaker Oat Squares (brown sugar and cinnamon flavored)
1½ cup old fashioned oats
½ cup pecans

Stir together and bake at 250 degrees for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. Spread on wax paper to cool. After cooling, add:

¾ cup craisens
¾ cup chocolate covered raisins
¾ cup chocolate covered peanuts

This cookbook was provided to Our State magazine as part of a call for community cookbooks. Whatcha cookin?: A Collection of Recipes from the Reiferd Nichols Family. January 2001. Recipe by Jeri and Chris. To order cookbooks, please call Betty Wiebe at 662-621-4565.