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Hermit Cookie RecipesGrandma's Hermit Cookie Recipes Make The Best Hermit Cookies You Have Ever TastedIt is not known when or how the distinct name of these cookies originated. Some think they were named hermits because they are often dropped separately onto a cookie sheet and have the appearance of a hermit's brown robe. In any event, you will enjoy trying these easy hermit cookie recipes. Hermit cookies are always delicious! Hermit CookiesThese old-fashioned hermit cookie recipes are taken from Mom's old recipe scrapbook, circa 1929.Hermit cookies were always one of my favorite cookies because they are so nice and chewy. Be careful not to bake them too much, though, or their centers will not be soft. You will love these classic, homemade cookie recipes.
Hermit CookiesThis old-time hermit cookie recipe is taken from the book "Dr. Chase's Third, Last and Complete Receipt Book, Memorial Edition" by Dr. Alvin Wood Chase, M.D., published by F. B. Dickerson Company, Detroit and Windsor, in 1891.This is an easy cookie recipe, and the hermits are delicious. Note: when the recipe calls for "flour enough to roll out," it simply means to keep adding flour until the cookie dough is rollable. Brown sugar, 1-1/2 cups; 3 eggs; butter, 1 cup; raisins, chopped, 1 cup; sour milk, 2 tablespoonfuls; soda, 1 teaspoonful; cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice, of each 1/2 teaspoonful; flour enough to roll out; cut as in cookies. Hermit CookiesThis hermit cookie recipe is taken from "Miss Parloa's New Cook Book" by Maria Parloa, Principal of The School of Cooking in Boston, published by Estes & Lauriat, Boston, in 1880.Two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, one of raisins (stoned and chopped), three eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in three tablespoonfuls of milk; a nutmeg, one teaspoonful each of clove and cinnamon, and six cupfuls of flour. Roll about one-fourth of an inch thick, and cut with a round cake cutter. Bake in a rather quick oven. It will take about twelve minutes. --Mrs. L. C. A. Hermit CookiesThis easy hermit cookie recipe is taken from the "Second Edition of The Neighborhood Cookbook" published by the Council of Jewish Women, Portland, in 1914.Two cups brown sugar, one-half pound butter, three eggs, one teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, one-half teaspoon soda, three tablespoons of sweet milk, one cup washed raisins, one cup of chopped nuts, about two and one-half cups of flour. Hermit CookiesThis old-time hermit cookie recipe is taken from "The Perry Home Cook Book" compiled by the Ladies of Perry, Kansas, and vicinity, published by The Independent Publishing Company, Oskaloosa, Kansas, in 1920.3 eggs; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup butter; 1 cup seedless raisins; 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves, salt; 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 3 tablespoons sour milk; flour enough to roll. Do not roll too thin on account of raisins. Bake only to a light brown. --Mrs. Sophia O'Roke Hermit CookiesThis classic hermit cookie recipe is taken from "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Principal of the Boston Cooking School, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, in 1896.1/3 cup butter, 2/3 cup sugar, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons milk, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/3 cup raisins stoned and cut in small pieces, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon clove, 1/4 teaspoon mace, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg.  Grandma's Choice...
 
Enjoy trying these vintage hermit cookie recipes. Why not bake a batch of hermit cookies for your friends and loved ones tonight?
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