Hermits

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Title: Hermits
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 84 servings

2 c Packed brown sugar
1/2 c Shortening
1/2 c Butter or margarine;
-softened
1/2 c Cold coffee
2 Eggs
3 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Ground nutmeg
1 ts Ground cinnamon
1/2 ts Salt
1 1/2 c Raisins
1 c Chopped nuts

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix brown sugar, shortening, butter, coffee
and eggs. 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. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet.
ABOUT 7-1/2 DOZEN COOKIES Redolent with spices, packed with raisins and
nuts, these moist drop cookies originated on Cape Cod. Because of their
good keeping qualities, they accompanied many a sailor on long seafaring
expeditions. Brown sugar and cold coffee offset the spices and give the
cookies their deep golden color.

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