Southern Pumpkin Muffins (1983)

• 
  1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup mashed pumpkin
• 2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
• 2 tspns baking powder
• 1/4 tspn salt
• 1 tspn ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tspn ground nutmeg
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 chopped pecans
• 1/2 raisins

Cream butter, then gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add pumpkin, beating well.

Combine 1 3/4 cups flour, baking powder, salt, and spices, and mix well. Add flour to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat well after each addition. 

Dredge pecans and raisins in remaining flour, and fold into batter.

Spoon batter into well-greased muffins pans. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Yields 1 1/2 dozen muffins. 

More "Lost" Pumpkin Recipes

Honey Buttermilk Pumpkin Cake with Pecans (1985)

Libby's Pumpkin Coffee Pie with Chocolate Crust (1984)

(Origin - "The Southern Heritage Breads Cookbook" by the Oxmoor House, published of Southern Living, 1983.)