Ingredients
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1 1/2 cups flour
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1/2 cup sugar
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1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
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1/4 teaspoon baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon baking soda
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1/4 teaspoon salt
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1 1/2-2 teaspoons cinnamon
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1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
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1 dash clove
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1 cup buttermilk (I use powdered buttermilk)
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1/2 cup raisins (I do not use)
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1/2 cup chocolate chips
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1/2 cup pecans
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2 teaspoons unsweetened baking cocoa
Instructions
- For the buttermilk, you can also place 1 TBS.
- vinegar into a one cup measure.
- Add milk to the one cup line.
- Let mixture sit for 10- 15 minutes.
- It will curdle, that's okay!
- Mix together flour and sugar.
- Cut butter into this, using pastry blender until butter is in small pea size pieces.
- (I sometimes use a fork and knife to mix!).
- Reserve 1 cup of this flour mixture and set aside.
- Into remaining flour/ butter mixture, measure baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
- Mix well.
- Add buttermilk and mix well again.
- Batter will be thin, like water.
- Pour into greased, 9x9 baking pan.
- Sprinkle the reserved 1 cup flour/butter mixture on top.
- Sprinkle chocolate chips and pecans over all.
- Bake 350* for 30 minutes.