Hermits
(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)
they will become hard after baking, but you can soften them up by putting a piece of bread into the container with them.
Source: Linda Young contributed to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Categories: cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup shortening
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup chopped nuts
Directions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the shortening and sugar. Beat in eggs.
- In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Add flour mixture to creamed mixture. Stir in raisins and nuts.
- Drop dough by heaping teaspoons onto greased cookie sheet and bake 10 minutes.