How To make Beaulah's Hermits

1/2 c Mixture of lard and butter
1/2 c Brown sugar
1 Egg
1/2 c Molasses
2 c Flour
1/4 c Coffee
1 ds Salt
1/2 ts Ginger
1/2 ts Ground cloves
1/2 ts Cinnamon
1/2 ts Nutmeg
1/2 ts Allspice
1/2 c Raisins; dredged in flour
1 ts Baking soda
Recipe by: Deggett/AOL Cream shorteining and sugar. Beat in egg, molasses and coffee. Sift rest of ingredients together and add. Beat well. If needed, add more flour but not too much or cookies will be hard and dry. Two ways to bake 1) drop by spoonfuls on buttered cooky sheet and bake about 10 minutes at 375 F. 2) spread in two 9x9" cake tins. Bake about 12 minutes. While hot sprinkle with brown sugar. Cut in bars. NOTES : Once people served Hermits often as we do brownies today. Donna's Mother-In-Law's recipe. She was born in 1896 so this is a very old recipe. -----