Brown Sugar Muffins

1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup margarine softened
1 tsp soda
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 tsp vanilla
dash salt
1/ 2 cup chopped nuts (opt.)
Mix brown sugar, eggs, margarine in bowl. Beat until creamy. Add soda to milk and stir
until dissolved. Add to sugar mixture. Add flour, vanilla, salt and stir just until mixed in.
Add chopped nuts if desired. Fold in nuts until mixed in. Bake in muffin tins lined with
cupcake papers and bake 350° for 20 minutes or until done when tooth pick comes out
clean.