How to Prepare Appetizing Hermit Cookies

Hermit Cookies. Whole wheat flour should not be bitter. When the first batch is baked, slide the Hermits off onto a rack. Carefully slide the loaded sheet of parchment paper onto the cookie sheet and continue baking. If you want to pre-make cookies but are not ready to bake: Drop cookie dough onto a baking sheet and then freeze until solid. Classic Hermit Cookies How To Make Classic Hermit Cookies.

Boil your raisins in some water to plump them up. Then drain them and set them aside. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease it. You can cook Hermit Cookies using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hermit Cookies

1. It's 1/2 cup of softened butter or solid coconut oil.
2. You need 1/2 cup of black strap molasses.
3. It's 1/2 cup of dark brown sugar.
4. Prepare 2 of eggs.
5. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
6. It's 1 tsp of cinnamon.
7. You need 1/2 tsp of each nutmeg, ginger, ground cloves.
8. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
9. You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
10. Prepare 2 cups of flour.
11. You need 1 cup of chopped walnuts.
12. It's 1/2 cup of raisins.

Cream together the butter and the sugar. Beat in the egg completely, then add the sour milk and the vanilla. Hermit Cookies are a special New England treat known for being filled with pungent spices. Try this toned-down recipe for hermit cookies with molasses.

Hermit Cookies instructions

1. Preheat oven 350°.
2. Cream butter, molasses, sugar.
3. Add eggs, blend.
4. In separate bowl, blend spices, powder, salt and flour.
5. Add 1/2 flour to sugar mixture, blend.
6. Add remaining flour, nuts and raisins. Blend thoroughly.
7. Line baking sheets with parchment. Using #20 scoop, scoop out cookies-- they won't spread much..
8. Bake 10 minutes, rotate and bake 5-7 minutes more.
9. Cool on wire rack.

I'm from New York City, so the only kind of hermit I knew was a reclusive woman to whom we brought food, books and other things when I was a kid. Dress up a cookie plate with these old-fashioned spice bars full of raisins, molasses, cinnamon, ginger and nuts. Then dip the chewy treats in coffee or hot cocoa on frosty days. It's said the cookies are called "hermits" because you can hide them out of sight, just like hermits, for days. They'll be just as good—maybe even better as the flavors blend and develop! —Jeri Tirmenstein, Apache.