Hermits
From The home science cook book, 1902
You can use part raisins and part nuts.
Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The home science cook book (1902) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 91. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Hermits. One cup each of butter and sugar, two eggs, one- fourth teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one-half teaspoon of cloves, a little nutmeg, one-fourth teaspoon of salt, and enough flour to make it stiff enough to drop. Stir in one cup or more of raisins, which have been chopped fine, or part raisins and part nuts. Mix in the order given, and drop from a table- spoon into a well-buttered shallow pan, or add more flour, and roll and cut. Peanut Cookies. Cream together two ounces of butter and one-half cup of sugar, add one egg, well beaten, two table- spoons of milk, and one-half teaspoon of salt. Mix one teaspoon of baking powder with one cup of flour, stir it in, and add one cup of finely chopped peanuts. Drop it by the teaspoonful on buttered tins an inch or two apart, put a half peanut on each, and bake in a quick oven. Molasses Cookies. Scald one cup of molasses, take from the stove and Cakes. 211 stir in one-half cup of butter, one-half cup of sugar, one tablespoon of ginger, and a little salt. When cool, add one- fourth cup of water in which one-half teaspoon of soda is dissolved. Mix with enough flour to make a soft dough - - about one quart. Roll till about one-eighth inch thick, cut .out, and bake in a moderate oven. Soft Molasses Gingerbread. Sift together one pint of flour, one-half teaspoon each of salt and soda, and one teaspoon of ginger. Mix with one scant cup of molasses and two table- spoons of fat softened in one-half cup of hot water. Spread in a shallow pan or bake in muffin pans for twenty minutes or more in a moderate oven. Shredded cocoanut or almonds or peanuts may be sprinkled over the top of the gingerbread in the pans before baking. Doughnuts. Sift one quart of sifted flour with one teaspoon of salt, three teaspoons of baking powder, one-half tea- spoon of mixed spice, and one cup of sugar
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