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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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