Apple Bread recipe from AM & Egg

Here's the apple bread recipe I found, from "Beard on Bread":

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking soda
1 t double-acting baking powder ( this is normal in the US, but in Japan they might also have single-acting )
2T buttermilk or sour milk (2T milk plus 1 t vinegar)
1 cup apples, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans
1t vanilla or grated lemon rind

Cream butter and sugar until light and lemon colored
Beat in the eggs
Sift flower with salt, baking soda and baking powder
Add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with dry indigents
Stir in the apples, nuts and vanilla
Grease a loaf pan
Spoon in the batter and bake in a 350°, preheated oven
Bake 50-60 mins, until the loaf pulls away slightly from the sides of the pan or until a straw inserted in the loaf comes out clean

Cool in the pan for about 5 minutes, then loosen and turn out onto a rack to cool completely before slicing

Have fun!

Love,
Emmanuel ( and AM)

Betty Crocker's Apple pie recipe as modified by Mom

Betty Crocker's Apple pie recipe as modified by Mom

9 inch pie two crust pie pastry

Mix together:
3/4 cup sugar (if apples are really sweet, cut back to 1/2 cup)
1/4 cup all purpose flour (NOT self rising)
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
I add: 1/8 ground clove, ground allspice, ground cardamon
dash salt

Add above mixture to 6 cups sliced pared apples (I use a mix of apple types as I think it makes a better pie: Galas,Golden Delicious, Pippin or Granny Smith, MacIntosh; you want a mixture of firm apples, sweet apples, apples that soften and make good sauce)

Heat oven to 425 degrees. Place apple and spice mixture in pie pan. Dot with butter. Cover with top crust that has three to fivesteam holes/slits in it. Seal and flute the edge. You can cover edge with 2-3 inch strip of aluminum foil to prevent excessive browning. Remove foillast fifteen minutes of baking.
Bake 40 -50 minutes or until crust is brown and juice begins to bubble up through the slits in the crust.

ENJOY!

Love you,
Mom