If you want to bake a delicious Apfelstrudel the dough has to
be rolled out very thin. You can also buy the finished dough
which tastes good as well.
Apfelstrudel
Ingredients
Pastry
300 grams bread flour
pinch of salt
30 ml vegetable oil
0,2 l water (lukewarm)
Filling
2 kg apples (Golden Delicious)
150 grams granulated sugar
30ml dark rum
150 grams raisins
1/8 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 lemons (juice and peel)
Buttered breadcrumbs
300 grams butter (unsalted)
300 grams bread crumbs
Recipe
Knead flour, salt, oil and water into a medium-firm dough. Divide
into 3 small round loaves, brush each loaf with melted butter
and let sit for 1 hour.
Peel, core and slice apples. Mix in granulated sugar, raisins,
grated lemon peel, lemon juice, rum, cinnamon.
Roast butter and bread crumbs.
Roll the dough loaves with a rolling pin, then stretch rolled
dough on a strudel sheet with the backs of your hands.
Coat 2/3 of dough sheet with buttered breadcrumbs, spread apple
filling over remaining 1/3 of dough.
Tear off edges, shape strudel into roll by lifting strudel sheet.
Place strudel on a buttered baking sheet and brush with melted
butter.
Bake strudel for 60 to 90 minutes in a 400 degrees F to 425
degrees F (200 to 220 degrees Celsius) oven.
