Скачать или смотреть Vintage Recipe: Hermit Cookies // Holiday Cookie Series #2

Today’s vintage cookie recipe is hermit cookies! A questionable name for a cookie but a delicious recipe. I learned that the name is due to the flavors of the cookie being best after being stored (hidden away) for a few days. The spices used in this recipe are warm and make the flavor of the cookie more complex. The only thing I didn’t like about the cookie is the use of raisins, but that is just my personal preference. I was also excited that this recipe is the oldest I have shared on my channel!

Original 1932 Recipe:
Grandmother’s Hermit Cookies:
1 cup Crisco
2 cups Brown Sugar (lightly packed)
2 Eggs (room temperature)
½ cup Black Coffee (cooled)
3 ¾ cups Flour
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 Tbsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. Ground Ginger
1 tsp. Nutmeg
1 tsp. Allspice
2 Tbsp. Sorghum (or Molasses)
2 cups Raisins
1 cup Pecans

Preheat oven to 375℉. Cover raisins with hot water and set aside. Thoroughly cream shortening and brown sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Beat in coffee. Stir together flour, soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and allspice; add to creamed mixture along with sorghum. Stir just to mix. Drain raisins well. Add raisins and nuts to the cookie mixture. Stir to mix. Drop from tablespoon 2 inches apart on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for only 8 minutes. Secret: don’t overbake. May freeze after baking. Makes 3 dozen.