Bess Truman's Hermits Cookies
30
Servings
Servings
15m PT15M
Prep Time
Prep Time
25m PT25M
Cook Time
Cook Time
40m
Ready In
Ready In
"The trumans were Extremely difficult to find recipes for ,but she did give this one Im adding her notes as they arent real precise add rounded spices im guessing except cloves which makes sense, she said nuts so im putting walnuts but it could mean pecans or almonds too"
Original recipe yields 30 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (49.7 g)
- Calories 141.6
- Total Fat - 7 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.5 g
- Cholesterol - 61.2 mg
- Sodium - 74.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 17 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.4 g
- Sugars - 8.8 g
- Protein - 4 g
- Calcium - 26.7 mg
- Iron - 0.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350
Step 2
Cream the sugar and shortening
Step 3
Add eggs one at a time blending
Step 4
In another bowl sift the dry ingredients 3 times
Step 5
She said add the baking soda to buttermilk but i would just add with dry ingredients
Step 6
Add nuts and raisins to dry ingredients
Step 7
Add buttermilk alternately with dry ingredients to creamed mixture
Step 8
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto pam sprayed cookie sheet
Step 9
Bake 25 minutes until lightly browned
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.