Recipe of Hermits - Food Recipes

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Title: Hermits
Categories : Cookies
Serving size: 84 servings 2 c Packed brown sugar 1/2 c Shortening 1/2 c Butter or margarine; -softened 1/2 c Cold coffee 2 Eggs 3 1/2 c All-purpose flour 1 ts Baking soda 1 ts Ground nutmeg 1 ts Ground cinnamon 1/2 ts Salt 1 1/2 c Raisins 1 c Chopped nuts Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix brown sugar, shortening, butter, coffee and eggs. Stir in flour, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt. Stir in raisins and nuts. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until almost no indentation remains when touched. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet. ABOUT 7-1/2 DOZEN COOKIES Redolent with spices, packed with raisins and nuts, these moist drop cookies originated on Cape Cod. Because of their good keeping qualities, they accompanied many a sailor on long seafaring expeditions. Brown sugar and cold coffee offset the spices and give the cookies their deep golden color. -----