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                               Apple Strudel

Recipe By     : Key Gourmet CD Rom
Serving Size  : 4    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Desserts

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   3      c             Flour -- sifted
   4                    Eggs -- separated, beaten
     1/2  c             Water -- warm
   2      tb            Butter -- melted
   3      lb            MacIntosh apples (lg)
   7      ts            Sugar -- up to 9 ts
   4      ts            Bread crumbs
                        Cinnamon
     1/4  lb            Butter -- melted

Sift 3 cups of flour. Make well in flour. Add 2 beaten eggs. Mix with
wire beater.

Add 1/2 cup warm water and 1 tb melted butter. Mix well with spoon
and knead with fingers for about 2 minutes, adding flour as needed to
prevent sticking, and making it into a ball.

Put dough in a bowl covered with a dish towel and set aside in a warm
place (I use my oven which is warm because of the pilot light. Don't
light oven until much later on). This whole procedure is quite time
consuming and takes about 1-1/2 hours to prepare. Let dough "rest"
while peeling and slicing:

3 pounds large MacIntosh apples. (Pick largest apples you can find to
facilitate peeling procedure.)

Step Two:

Cut dough in half. Put half back in bowl covered with dish towel in
warm place. On top of a well floured cloth tablecloth roll out
1/2 dough. Drizzle on 1 tb melted butter spreading all over rolled
out dough.

Pick up rolled out dough and "stretch" as much as possible (just like
a pizza dough is stretched, making fists with hands to prevent making
too many holes in dough--usually a hole or two appears which is not
unusual).

Put back on well floured tablecloth. Next tray to achieve a paper
thin dough by pulling all around and around it with the fingers.
Don't worry if there are a few holes here and there.

Step Three:

Using half of the thinly sliced apples, spread them all uniformly
over dough that you covered the tablecloth with. Sprinkle on top of
apples: 7 to 9 ts sugar according to taste and depending on tartness
of apples--4 ts bread crumbs--sift cinnamon all over above, drizzle
on 1/4 lb melted butter--also 2 beaten eggs spreading the eggs with a
fork in a circular motion.

Pick up the tablecloth and make a long roll and carefully lift roll
into a large ungreased shallow baking pan. If you prefer you may put
the roll into a pie plate starting in the middle and making a circle
with the roll.

Repeat steps 2 and 3, using second half of dough and the remaining
half of apples. Since these steps take about 20 minutes, allow about
10 minutes to preheat the oven to 400°F.

After making the roll, if you choose to use a large shallow baking
pan carefully put the roll in the pan right along with first half of
roll. You will have about four strips in the pan because the roll
will be that long. If you used a pie plate, take a second pie plate
for the second half of the strudel.

Now you are finally ready to put the strudel in the oven: 400°F for
40 minutes and 15 minutes more at 350°F.

Allow strudel to cool 20 to 25 minutes. Slice and put on serving
plate.

Busted by Sooz


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