Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 . Cream butter and sugar together in large mixing bowl. Dissolve baking soda in lemon juice. Combine baking soda mixture, eggs and vanilla with butter mixture. Beat mixture together. Add flour and salt. Mix to combine. Do not overmix. Peel, core and slice apples and coarsely chop apple slices. Gently fold apples into butter. Combine crumb ingredients, cutting in butter to get a coarse crumb texture. Spoon 1/2 of the batter into greased loaf pan. Sprinkle with 1/2 crumb mixture. Spoon in remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture. Press crumbs gently into surface of batter. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan. Remove bread and cool completely before slicing bread.

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