Apple Strudel “Apfelstrudel”

Ingredients

from Oma Dittrich, 1930s

Dough Ingredients

  • 2 C flour
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/4 t salt
  • 1/2 t oil
  • 1/4 C lukewarm water
  • 1/2 t lemon juice or vinegar
  • 1 C melted butter
  • 1 T sugar

Filling Ingredients

  • 4 T butter, melted
  • 2/3 C bread crumbs
  • 1 lb apples
  • 3–5 T sugar
  • 2 T raisins
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon, also the rind grated
  • Nuts and cinnamon as desired
Instructions

Dough Instructions

  1. Place flour on pastry board and make a hole in the center
  2. Place egg yolk, salt, oil, water, and lemon juice in center
  3. Mix dough quickly with a knife then knead it until it becomes elastic and leaves the board
  4. Cover with a hot bowl; keep warm 1/2 hour
  5. Lay dough in center of well-floured tablecloth on big table
  6. Flour dough
  7. Roll a little with rolling pin
  8. Brush dough with 1/4 cup melted butter, with hands under dough, palms up, pull and stretch dough all around until it is transparent; cut off thick edges
  9. Spread filling on 2/3 of dough, leaving 1/3 bare
  10. Sprinkle this part with 1/4 cup melted butter
  11. Roll strudel, starting from the end with the filling on it
  12. Hold one side of the cloth high with both hands so strudel will roll over and over
  13. Trim edges
  14. Twist roll into greased pan
  15. Brush with remaining butter
  16. Bake in 350º oven 35–45 minutes (or until brown and crisp)\
  17. Sprinkle with sugar

Filling Instructions

  1. Melt butter and fry breadcrumbs slightly
  2. Sprinkle on top of strudel sheet
  3. Mix other ingredients together and add
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