Secret Recipes

Apple Butter Bread Recipe #2

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp ground allspice
• 1/2 tsp ground cloves
• 1 cup apple butter
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Cream butter and brown sugar; add egg to mixture, and beat well. Combine buttermilk and baking soda. Combine flour and spices; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Stir in apple butter and chopped pecans.

Pour into greased 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan. Bake at 350°F for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cool in pan 5 minutes; remove to wire rack, and cool completely.

Servings:

1 loaf