Hermit Fruit and Nut Cookie Recipe

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Old Country Hermit Cookie Recipe

Hermit cookies are soft as cake, yet still munchy crunchy delicious, and the perfect addition to your holiday baking. Hermits are absolutely scrumptious.

Hermits are a raisin nut cookie which is more like a cake than a cookie. Plumped up with all the taste and goodness that home baking can put into them, and with the delightful aroma of nutmeg and cinnamon floating from them, they are a sweet dessert treat which is hard to resist. When it comes to the holidays, and home baked treats, Hermit cookies are ideal.

This traditional old country hermit cookie recipe brings a touch of the past into your kitchen. So pop on your apron and lets get baking.

Fruit and Nut Hermit Holiday Cookie Recipe

Ingredients for Hermit cookies:

Ingredients you will need:

4 cups brown sugar
1 cup cold tea or coffee
3 eggs
1 and 1/2 cups margarine
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
7 cup flour
2 cups raisins
2 cups chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

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Stir together the first six ingredients...

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Add in the remaining ingredients and blend together...

Your Hermit cookie dough should look a bit like sticky goo...

Be sure to fill your home with lots of ooey gooey love.

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Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet...

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Bake at 375 for about 10 minutes...

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Allow your Hermit cookies to cool before eating...

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  • Lifeboost May 6, 2012 @ 10:36 am | delete
    Ooh, these hermit cookies look delicious! I'm going to have to have a go at them.... :)
  • Winter52 May 1, 2012 @ 1:46 pm | delete
    I remember these cookies from when I was in grade school... mom made them a lot! Loved them!!
  • ---Chazz Apr 22, 2012 @ 2:38 am | delete
    I love hermits and this recipe looks wonderful -- but I felt it called for one additional ingredient -- angel dust. Blessed and featured on my "Still Wing-ing it on Squidoo" lens.
  • SudokuNut Apr 16, 2012 @ 12:27 am | delete
    Thanks for introducing me to hermit cookies, never heard of them before but they sure do sound delicious!
  • LiteraryMind Apr 15, 2012 @ 10:51 am | delete
    Sounds good.. and not too difficult. That's my kind of recipe. Nice lens
  • fanfreluche Mar 6, 2012 @ 3:01 pm | delete
    Never had Hermit cookies before. Sounds like a nice treat. I love to bake cookies, but I don't do that often. I love molasses cookies from my grand mother recipe
  • Ladymermaid Mar 7, 2012 @ 8:54 pm | delete
    The hermits cookie recipe is one of my favorites. I make them quite often but it is always a race to have some with my great big cookie monster husband around.
  • Treasures-By-Brenda Mar 6, 2012 @ 1:22 pm | delete
    These sound yummy & yes, I do bake my own cookies. As a matter of fact, I'd like to invite you to submit yours to a virtual bake off on my lens, The Best Cookies Bake Off Ever. (And you could share your link on my Facebook page, Culinary Favorites From A to Z, too.)
  • Ladymermaid Mar 7, 2012 @ 8:55 pm | delete
    Thank you for the cookie link tips. I will wander over when things slow down a bit here. It is crazy since the first of the month hit.
  • SereneSea Mar 3, 2012 @ 11:10 pm | delete
    This hermit name looks yummy and the cookie recipe sure looks delicious, off to get my favourite cookie till I try this one.
  • JaguarJulie Jan 27, 2012 @ 5:48 pm | delete
    I sure do ... do a lot of my own baking. The hermit cookies sound tasty ... how'd they happen to come by that name?
  • Tipi Nov 10, 2011 @ 8:55 am | delete
    Looks so yummy. I don't bake very often anymore, but with the holidays so close, I will be. Just might have to try your recipe. ~ Thanks!
  • poddys Oct 30, 2011 @ 3:26 am | delete
    This has all the ingredients for a great recipe lens for me... made from scratch not from a packet/can, original photos, easy to follow instructions, and a great layout. Nicely done, if you had smell-a-vision I would have dived in and eaten the lot, they look and sound really good :) Blessed.
  • CCGAL Aug 31, 2011 @ 2:34 pm | delete
    Yes, I do my own baking most of the time. This summer, though, being the hottest in history for Texas (over 70 days of triple digit temperatures so far!) I have not lit the oven a single time in over 3 months. So my poor hubby has had to make do with what we get from the grocery store. Don't feel too sorry for him, though, because we have wonderful bakeries in our local HEB stores.

    The hermit recipe here sounds delicious, so I've printed it out to give it a try this winter - but I wonder if you have ever eaten a chocolate hermit? Glen's Bakery in Crescent City recently closed its doors, and they sold a tender cake-like mound of chocolate cookie loaded with nuts and raisins with a dab of chocolate frosting on the top, and called them hermits. So I had no idea that there were other cookie recipes called Hermits, that were not chocolate. Very interesting! Come on cold weather, I got the urge to bake cookies!
  • Ladymermaid Aug 31, 2011 @ 2:39 pm | delete
    Chocolate, nuts, and fruit? It sounds almost too good to be true. I will have to see if I can adapt this recipe to add in the chocolate...I don't think that it would be too difficult to do :)
  • prosperity66 Dec 19, 2010 @ 6:09 am | delete
    There is one thing that is for sure and I'll always love: the smell of fresh baked treats! Especially during the holiday season! This is the most fantastic smell ever..
  • prosperity66 Dec 19, 2010 @ 6:09 am | delete
    There is one thing that is for sure and I'll always love: the smell of fresh baked treats! Especially during the holiday season! This is the most fantastic smell ever..
  • TeamSTM Dec 16, 2010 @ 9:44 pm | delete
    I love these cookies, I literally eat myself sick every year and I enjoy it!! Sorry, they are that good and thanks for the share!
  • CitiesChick Dec 16, 2010 @ 2:26 pm | delete
    Those look delicious! Lot's of other good information here too.

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