Plantation Cup Cakes

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These rescued recipes are so simple and yet so delicious.  We now have a page full of instructions on some recipes.  Yet this and others found on my grandmothers recipe cards are so simple to follow.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup molasses

2 eggs

1 1/2 cups flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 cup milk

Cream shortening and sugar together.  Add molasses and well beaten eggs.  Mix and sift the dry ingredients and then ad alternately with the milk.

Mix well and then bake in muffin pans in a 350 degree oven for 20 minutes.