Recipe: Mother's Applesauce Muffins (Taste of Home, 1990's)

MOTHER'S APPLESAUCE MUFFINS

4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground allspice
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 cups applesauce
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
1 cup raisins, seedless

In a large bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, allspice, baking soda
and salt; set aside.

Cream the butter and sugar together. Beat in applesauce, eggs and vanilla. Stir the mixture into the dry ingredients just until moistened.

Fold in raisins. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups 3/4 full.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove muffins from the pans and place them on a wire rack to finish cooling.

Makes 24 muffins
Adapted from source: Taste of Home magazine, Feb/Mar 1997