Dutch Apple Bread

Sorry I've been so lazy in posting this recipe! A couple of you have asked for it, and all of you should try it because it is so, so, so good!

BREAD
1 cup butter/margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2/3 cup buttermilk
2 cups peeled, chopped apples

*Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla
*Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl.
*Pour 1/2 of the flour mixture into the creamed mixture and mix well. Then, pour 1/2 of the buttermilk into the creamed mixture and mix well. Pour the rest of the flour mixture in, mix; then the rest of the buttermilk, mix.
*Fold in apples
*Pour in greased pan

TOPPING
1 cup flour
5 T. brown sugar
5 T. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
8 T. butter/margarine

*Combine all dry ingredients; cut in butter until crumbly; sprinkle over dough in bread pan.
*Cook at 350 for 50-60 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in middle comes up dry.

This makes 3 medium-sized loaves. I LOVE this recipe because I usually have everything I need on hand (as long as I have apples). Oh, for the buttermilk - if you don't have buttermilk sitting in your fridge, mix 2/3 cups regular milk with 2 tsp. vinegar before you start, and let it sit while you mix everything else together. By the time you need the buttermilk, your regular milk will be a little curdled - mix it up a little and there you go! Homemade buttermilk! :) I rarely use store-bought buttermilk anymore because this works just as well and then I don't have a bunch of leftover buttermilk going bad in my fridge! My grandma might be shamed...she loves to drink buttermilk straight out of the carton.