Apple Loaf

2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3 eggs, beaten
2 cups apples, diced
3 cups flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
Cinnamon-sugar mixture

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar, butter, and eggs. Add vanilla, baking soda, cinnamon, flour, and salt to egg mixture and blend well. Stir in diced apples. Pour mixture into well-greased loaf pans. (The original recipe says it makes two big loaves, but in my kitchen where the cooks sometimes lick a spoonful of batter since we use pasteurized eggs to bake, it makes one big loaf and one to two mini loaves.) Sprinkle loaves with cinnamon-sugar mixture. Bake big loaf for about an hour; smaller loaves take about half the time.