Dutch apple bread

1/2 c  butter or margarine; softene
      1 c  Sugar
      2    Eggs
      1 ts vanilla
      2 c  flour
      1 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/3 c  buttermilk
      1 c  Apple; chopped; peeled
    1/3 c  Walnuts; chopped
           ***topping***
    1/3 c  flour
      2 tb Sugar
      2 tb Packed brown sugar
    1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
      3 tb butter or margarine
 

  butter and sugar.  Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda and
  salt.  Stir into the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Fold in
  apple and nuts.  Pour into a greased 9 x 5 x 3 loaf pan. For topping,
  combine the first four ingredients; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle
  over batter.  Bake at 350 for 55 - 60 minutes or until bread tests done.
  Cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing to wire rack. Source: Taste of
  Home; Feb./March 1995.
 
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