Apple Strudel
Ingredients:
- 450 g flour
- 125 ml milk
- 125 ml seed oil
- a pinch of salt
- 1 kg Renette apples
- the juice of a lemon
- 2 tablespoons apricot jam
- 25 g butter
- 100 g bread crumbs
- 100 g sultanas
- 50 g pine nuts
- a teaspoon of cinnamon
- a teaspoon of rum
- 1 egg
- icing sugar
Method:
Put the flour, milk, oil and salt in a bowl and mix well until the dough is smooth and elastic. Cover with a damp cloth and leave to rest for 1½ hours. Meanwhile, make the filling. Peel, core and slice the apples and sprinkle with the lemon juice; melt the butter and brown the bread crumbs. Mix together the apples, jam, sultanas, pine nuts, bread crumbs, rum and cinnamon. Roll out the dough very thinly with a rolling pin then place the filling on it, fold the pastry over and brush with the egg.
Bake at 1700 C for half an hour.
Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve warm.