Hermit Cookies Recipe

  Bread

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
1/2 cup butter (or shortening)
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour milk (or buttermilk)
1 1/2 cup chopped raisins
1 cup chopped nutmeats
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon clove
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon soda, dissolved in the milk (the milk bubbles up when the baking soda is added, so don't have it in an exact measure cup.)

Directions:
Cream sugar and butter. Drop in eggs, one at a time, and mix well. Sift dry ingredients, and add to batter alternately with the milk in which the soda has been dissolved.

Drop by teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with sugar.

Bake at 350° for 15 minutes.

Hermit Cookies
 

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