Best 9 Hermits My Favorite Recipes

HERMITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly butter and flour 3 baking sheets.
• Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and salt together in a large bowl.
• Beat the butter and brown sugar together in another bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, 3 minutes. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Add the molasses and beat until smooth. While mixing slowly, add the flour mixture to make a sticky batter, being careful not to overmix. Fold in the raisins, cranberries, walnuts and ginger.
• Divide dough into 6 pieces and with slightly damp hands, shape each piece into a 1-inch wide log. Place 2 logs on each of the prepared cookie sheets, leaving plenty of space between each log, since the cookies spread considerably when baked. Brush with egg. Bake cookies, rotating the pans halfway through baking, until dark golden but still soft, about 15 minutes, Cool completely.
• Cut crosswise into 1 1/2-inch wide bar cookies. Serve, or store hermits covered at room temperature for up to 1 week.

MAGIC HERMITS

Steps:

• Mix and sift the dry ingredients.
• Cream butter, add sugar and eggs and vanilla; then add 1/3 of the flour mixture, fruit and nuts. Add more flour and liquid alternately until they are all used up. Mix thoroughly.
• Drop by teaspoonful on a greased pan.
• Bake at 350F for 15-20 minutes.

HERMITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. Cover raisins with boiling water. Let stand for 5 minutes; drain and set aside. , Whisk together next 6 ingredients. In another bowl, combine molasses, butter, egg white and vanilla; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in walnuts and raisins (batter will be wet)., Divide batter in half; spread each half (wetting hands, if necessary) into a 12x2-in. rectangle 2 in. apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until edges are lightly browned and set, 10-15 minutes., Transfer rectangles to a cutting board; with a serrated knife, cut diagonally into 1-1/2-in. bars. Remove to wire racks to cool. Store in an airtight container.

HERMITS MY FAVORITE RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. CREAM TOGETHER: Sugar and crisco ~ Beat in eggs ~ then add molasses and water and mix until smooth. SET ASIDE ( Some have suggested that these are to sweet and have cut the white sugar amount down. So be aware of that if you don't want them to sweet)
• 2. SIFT TOGETHER: Flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Add to liquid ingredients. ADD: Nuts and raisins
• 3. Grease a large cookie sheet. Make 3 lengths about 3 inches wide. Sprinkle tops with sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Do not overcook, will be dry, check at 15 Cool and cut.

DOWN EAST HERMITS

Steps:

• Mix together thoroughly--shortening, brown sugar, and eggs.
• Blend in the cold coffee.
• Mix in the flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon.
• Add in the raisins and walnuts--mix well.
• Chill 1 hour.
• Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto a lightly greased baking sheet.
• Bake at 400 degrees for about 8-10 minutes or until set--just until when touched lightly with fingertip, almost no print remains.
• Do not overbake.

HERMITS I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl cream together butter, sugar and spices. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Sift in the flour, baking soda and salt and stir until well blended. Stir in molasses and raisins.
• To make bar cookies: Spread mixture on cookie sheet and bake for 25 minutes. Cut into bars while warm and let cool on wire rack.
• To make drop cookies: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Drop batter about 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet and bake 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool on wire racks.

OLD FASHIONED HERMITS

Steps:

• 1. Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg and beat well.
• 2. Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cloves, cinnamon and ginger.
• 3. Mix together the molasses and water.
• 4. Add alternately to creamed mixture, fold in raisins and chopped nuts.
• 5. Batter will be quite thick.
• 6. Spread out on floured surface and cut into shape.
• 7. Bake on cookie sheet 20 minutes at 375 degrees.

HERMITS II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a medium sized bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and allspice. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium, cream the sugar and butter until light yellow and fluffy. Add the molasses, egg whites, and egg; beat well.
• Using a wooden spoon, stir in flour mixture until flour disappears. Fold in raisins and nuts.
• Drop by tablespoons, 2 inches apart, onto lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake 8-9 minutes. Lightly sift confectioners' sugar over if you like.

HERMITS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Mix brown sugar, shortening, butter, coffee and eggs in large bowl. 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 in center. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet. Cool on wire rack.