Date and Raisin Hermits Recipe
Hermits are amazingly well flavored cookies that you really have to try at home. I served it at the last tea party and the guests loved it. Try this Hermits recipe and you will understand why.
Ingredients
1 c. seedless raisins
1 c. dates
1 c. chopped nuts
2 1/4 c. pastry flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. allspice
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
4 tbsp. butter or margarine
4 tbsp. shortening
1 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Directions
1. Sift flour, measure, sift flour, salt, baking soda and the spices.
2. Cream butter and shortening and add sugar gradually, cream.
3. Beat eggs, and add to the shortening and sugar mixture.
4. Add dry ingredients and nuts and fruit.
5. Drop from spoon onto greased baking sheet, 1 inch apart, and bake.
2. Cream butter and shortening and add sugar gradually, cream.
3. Beat eggs, and add to the shortening and sugar mixture.
4. Add dry ingredients and nuts and fruit.
5. Drop from spoon onto greased baking sheet, 1 inch apart, and bake.
