Sugar Muffins

1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup shortening

1 egg

1 ½ tsp. Baking powder

½ tsp. salt

¼ tsp. Ground nutmeg

1 ½ cups flour

½ cup milk

½ cup sugar

1 tsp. Ground cinnamon

6 Tbsp. Butter, melted

Cream together sugar and shortening. Beat in egg, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Starting and ending with flour, alternately add flour and milk till mixed well. Fill 12 greased muffin tins and bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Mix cinnamon and second amount of sugar together. Remove muffins from tin, roll in melted butter then in cinnamon sugar mixture.

If you want to make these slightly healthier so you feel better about yourself do the following: in the top ingredients use 1/3 cup sugar and 2 1/2 Tbsp. shortening, add 1/4 cup applesauce with the milk.  For the bottom ingredients cut the butter to about 1/4 cup and the sugar will probably be about 1/3 cup but I've never actually measured the difference there.  Mix as directed but when rolling the muffins just roll the tops in butter and sugar.