Hermits (or Fruit Drop Cakes)

Name: Hermits (or Fruit Drop Cakes)
Ingredients: Three cups swansdown flour; two eggs; one and one-half cup brown sugar; three-fourths cup butter and lard; one-third cup milk; one cup nut meats; one cup chopped raisins; one teaspoon each of cinnamon; spice; nutmeg; two teaspoonsful of baking powder; one-half teaspoonful of soda

From Trinity cook book, 1925

—MRS. C. A. HOWARD.

Presented as published in 1925. 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 Trinity cook book (1925) by Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Roanoke, Va.), page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HERMITS (OR FRUIT DROP CAKES) Three cups swansdown flour, two eggs, one and one-half cup brown sugar, three-fourths cup butter and lard, one-third cup milk, one cup nut meats, one cup chopped raisins (roll nuts and raisins in flour), one teaspoon each of cinnamon, spice and nutmeg, two teaspoonsful of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of soda

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