Apple Strudel (apfelstrudel)
- 1 12 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 large egg
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 1 12 tablespoons corn oil
- 13 cup warm water
- 14 cup unsalted butter, melted,for brushing
- 14 cup fine dry breadcrumb
- 12 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 5 large tart apples, peeled cored,and thinly sliced (such as granny smith)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 14 cup raisins
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar, for dusting baked strudel
- TO MAKE THE STRUDEL DOUGH, measure the flour into a large bowl and make a well in the center of it.
- In a small bowl, beat the egg, salt, oil, and water until blended.
- Pour the liquids into the well in the flour and mix until a soft dough forms.
- Pick up the dough with one hand (coat your hand lightly with oil to prevent sticking) and slap the dough into the bowl or onto a lightly oiled surface about 100 times.
- (Or place the dough into an electric mixer with dough hook and beat at high speed for 10 minutes.)
- The dough will be sticky at first, but then will become elastic and will leave the board and hands clean.
- Divide the dough into 2 lightly oiled bowls and let rest, covered, for 10 minutes.
- Cover a table with a smooth, plastic tablecloth and rub very lightly with an oil-soaked cloth.
- Dust one of the parts of dough lightly with flour and invert the bowl onto the plastic tablecloth-covered surface.
- Dust the top with flour.
- Pat the dough down as flat as possible, then with a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out to make a circle about 10 inches across.
- Working from the underside of the dough with palms up, gently and slowly stretch the dough until measure 30 inches each way and is paper thin.
- Brush the dough with 2 tablespoons of the melted butter.
- Using the plastic tablecloth really makes it so much easier.
- MAKE THE FILLING.
- In a small bowl, mix the crumbs, 1/4 cup of the sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon of the cinnamon.
- Sprinkle the dough evenly with 2 tablespoons of this mixture.
- In a large bowl, mix the apples with the lemon juice, the remaining sugar, and cinnamon.
- Sprinkle the dough with half the apple mixture and half the raisins and the chopped walnuts, leaving about one-quarter of one end of the dough uncovered, and 6 inches from 2 OPPOSITE ENDS uncovered.
- Lift the 2 OPPOSITE SIDES of unfilled edges up over the filling.
- Brush the fold edges with 1 tablespoon more of the melted butter.
- Starting from the FILLED EDGE of the dough, lift the plastic cloth so that the strudel will roll up, rolling toward the UNFILLED EDGE of the dough, forming a roll.
- Place the roll on a buttered baking sheet with the seam side down.
- Brush the roll with 1 tablespoon more melted butter.
- REPEAT the stretching, filling and rolling procedure with the SECOND HALF of the dough and the remaining filling ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 400 F.
- Bake for 35 to 45 minutes or until golden brown.
- Dust with confectioners' sugar.
- Cut in slices to serve.
- The Great Holiday Baking Book Beatrice Ojakangas.
flour, egg, salt, corn oil, water, unsalted butter, breadcrumb, sugar, ground cinnamon, tart apples, lemon juice, raisins, walnuts, sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/apple-strudel-apfelstrudel-89363 (may not work)