Hermits

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup butter
• IMz cups sugar
• 1 cup chopped raisins
• 2 tablespoons chopped citron
• 1 teaspoon each extract cloves
• allspice
• and cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder
• flour to roll out

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and cut into rounds.

2. 2

   Bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons sugar, hi teaspoon salt. Rub in 2 tablespoons butter, add Mi teaspoon extract cinnamon, 10 drops extract cloves, and milk to mix to a rather firm dough. Knead till smooth, cut off bits size of hickory nuts and mold into shape of cigarettes. TaJte Mi cup granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon, mix, and roU each cigarette in it. Lay on greased pans, bake in moderate oven. Drop Cakes. — 1 cup butter. Mi cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 small teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 pint flour, 1 cup washed and picked currants, 1 teaspoon each extract nutmeg and lemon, ^ cup milk. Rub the butter and sugar to a white, light cream ; add the eggs, beat 10 min- utes ; add the flour and powder sifted together, the milk and extracts. Mix into a rather firm batter, and drop with a spoon on a greased baking-tin (fig. XIV) ; bake in a quick oven 10 minutes. Ginger Snaps,— Mi cup lard. Mi cup butter, 1 large cup brown sugar, 1 cup water, 1 table- spoon extract ginger, 1 teaspoon each extract cinnamon and cloves, 1 quart fiour, \Mi tea- spoons Royal Baking Powder. Rub to a smooth paste the lard, butter, and sugar ; then rub it into the flour and powder sifted together. Mix into a firm dough with the water and ex- tracts. Roll out the dough thin on a floured board, cut out with a round biscuit-cutter, and bake on greased pan (fig. XIV), in a hot, steady oven, 8 minutes. Edenkobers. — 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, V4 pound almonds, pounded to paste, pound chopped citron, M4 pound chopped candied lemon peel, 2 tablespoons drained honey, 2 cups flour, % teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Mix to a paste, roll out, and cut in small cakes. Bake in moderate oven. Hermits. — 3 eggs, 1 cup butter, IMz cups sugar, 1 cup chopped raisins, 2 tablespoons chopped citron, 1 teaspoon each extract cloves. THE ROYAL BAKING POWDER IS ABSOLUTELY PURE. THE ROYAL BAKER AND PASTRY COOK 19 allspice, and cinnamon, pinch of salt, 1 tea- spoon Royal Baking Powder, flour to roll out

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