Recipe - Chocolate Apple Bread

TOPPING
1 tablespoon Sugar
One half teaspoon Cinnamon
One half cup Chopped walnuts or pecans

BREAD
4 cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
One half teaspoon Nutmeg
1 cup Butter,softened
2 cup Sugar
4 Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One fourth cup Buttermilk
3 cup Coarsely chopped apples
1 cup Chopped walnuts
12 ounce Semisweet chocolate chips

Topping:
In cup, combine sugar, cinnamon and walnuts; set aside.

Bread:
1. Preheat oven to 350'F. Grease two 9x5x3" loaf pans. In small bowl,
combine flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg;
set aside.
2. In large bowl, beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs and
vanilla extract; mix well. Gradually beat in flour mixture
alternately with buttermilk. Stir in apples, walnuts, and chocolate
chips. Pour into prepared pans. Sprinkle with topping.
3. bake 5060 minutes until cake tester inserted in center comes out
clean. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pans. Cool completely. Makes 2
loaves.

From Tuscon area newspapers, 1994, 3rd quarter, courtest Mike Orchekowski.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/tn94q3.zip