Recipe - Nancys Apple Bread

1 cup Butter or margarine,
softened
1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking soda
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
2 Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla
2 cup Flour
One fourth teaspoon Salt
1 One half cup Apples, peeled, coarsely
chopped

CRUMB MIXTURE
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
2 tablespoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Flour
2 tablespoon Cold butter or margarine

Cream butter and sugar together. In a separate bowl, dissolve soda in lemon
juice. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Beat butter mixture and egg mixture
together. Add flour and salt. Do not over mix. Gently fold in apples. Mix
crumb ingredients, cutting in butter to get a coarse crumb texture. Spoon
One half of batter into greased stoneware loaf pan. Sprinkle with One half crumb
mixture. Spoon in remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining crumb
mixture. Press crumbs gently into surface of batter. Bake at 375 degrees
for 1 hour 15 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in center comes out
clean. Cool slightly in pan. Remove bread from pan and cool completely on
cooling rack. Yield: 1 loaf.

Recipe by: Pampered Chef Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #631 by
hister@juno.com (Iris E. Dunaway) on Jun 01, 1997