APPLE BUTTER BREAD
1/2 cup butter or margarine -- softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground clove
1 cup apple butter
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Cream butter and brown sugar; add egg to mixture, and beat well. Combine
buttermilk and 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 loafpan. Bake at 350 degrees 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.
Yield: 1 loaf (9 servings).