Hermit Cookies
Old-fashioned moist and chewy cookies, bursting with warm spices in every bite. Recipe adapted slightly from Purity Cook Book.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 3/4 c. + 2 T all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
- pinch allspice
- pinch nutmeg
- 1/2 c. rasisins
- 1/2 c. dates, chopped coarse
- 1/2 c. toasted walnuts, chopped coarse
Wet Ingredients
- 1/4 c. butter
- 1/2 c. packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 tsp. vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg.
- To the dry ingredients, add the raisins, dates, and walnuts until coated. Set aside.
- In another medium sized bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until thick. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
- Slowly stir in the dry ingredients, and mix until fully incorporated.
- Drop from a teaspoon onto the prepared cookie sheets, spacing about an inch apart from one another.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, rotating cookie sheets halfway. Remove cookies to a wire rack and allow them to cool for 10 minutes.
- Enjoy!