Bess Truman's Hermits Cookies
"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 is 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 by Step Method
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
No special items needed.