Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 ts Baking soda
1 tb Hot water
1 c Room temperature butter
1 c Sugar
1 c Molasses
4 Separated, room temp egg
3 1/2 c All purpose flour
1 ts Freshly grated nutmeg
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Ground ginger
1 c Buttermilk
1 c Chopped pecan
1 c Raisin
pn Cream of tartar

(Makes about 40.)

Preheat oven to 350 deg. Grease 2-inch muffin tins. Dissolve baking
soda in hot water. Cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy,
using electric mixer. Blend in molasses, yolks and soda. Combine
flour, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger. Mix into butter alternately with
buttermilk in 3 additions each. Fold in nuts and raisins. Beat whites
with cream of tartar in another bowl until stiff but not dry. Fold
into batter. Spoon into prepared tins, filling 3/4 full. Bake until
tester inserted in center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer
to racks. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Reheat in 350 deg. oven about
4 minutes.) Serve warm.

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