Strudels
- 2 whole Eggs
- 1 cup Water
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 4 cups Flour, More Or Less For Consistency
- 3 Tablespoons Oil
- 2 Tablespoons Crisco
- 1 pound Potatoes
- 1 cup Water, Enough To Cover Potatoes
- 2 Tablespoons Crisco
- Optional Toppings: Heavy Whipping Cream, Half And Half, Maple Syrup, A White Gravy Or Sour Cream
- For dough: Using an electric mixer with a wire whisk, beat eggs, water, salt and baking powder until thoroughly mixed.
- Then change to a paddle attachment and start to slowly add flour 1 cup at a time.
- As dough thickens, change to kneading attachment and continue to add flour until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl, forming a ball that sticks to the mixer attachment.
- Grease your counter top with oil.
- Divide dough into four balls and place on greased counter top.
- Slightly roll out the pieces of dough with a rolling pin.
- Grease top of each with small amount of Crisco or oil, cover with a tea towel and allow to sit for 1 hour.
- The longer it sits the better it will stretch.
- Kettle Prep: Meanwhile, peel and slice potatoes.
- Place in a kettle with a tight fitting lid, cover potatoes with water and add Crisco.
- You can then let them sit at room temperature until dough is ready.
- When dough is ready, turn on the heat and bring potatoes to a boil.
- Use a rolling pin to roll out dough until thin.
- Then pick up the dough and stretch by hand as much a possible without tearing.
- Then lay dough on greased counter and continue to stretch dough thinner yet by hand, until almost transparent.
- Try not to tear it too much.
- Then starting at one end of the stretched dough, roll it up (jelly-roll style) until dough is in one long roll.
- Then using the side of your open hand as a knife, cut the roll of dough into 3-4 inch sections.
- Lay sections of dough in a single layer over potatoes in the boiling kettle.
- Once youve added all of the dough slices, cover kettle tightly and cook at medium-high for 45 minutes.
- It will sizzle for 5-10 minutes at the end.
- Do not stir or lift the lid until done.
- When serving, some like to pour any of the following over the top of their strudels: heavy whipping cream, half and half, maple syrup, a white gravy or sour cream.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
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Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/strudels/ (may not work)