Apple Strudel (German Apple Cake)

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoonful of butter
• 1 large cup of flour
• 1 egg
• sufficient milk to make a stiff paste
• 1 dozen peeled and sliced apples
• 2 cupfuls of fried bread-crumbs
• ½ pound of chopped almonds
• ½ cup of currants or raisins cut up
• 1 tablespoonful of cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Mix 1 tablespoonful of butter with 1 large cup of flour, add 1 egg and sufficient milk to make a stiff paste.

2. 2

   Knead for ½ hour, lay aside and cover, near the fire.

3. 3

   Mix 1 dozen peeled and sliced apples with 2 cupfuls of fried bread-crumbs, ½ pound of chopped almonds, ½ cup of currants or raisins cut up, and 1 tablespoonful of cinnamon.

4. 4

   Mix all well, and rolling the dough very thin, spread this evenly over it.

5. 5

   Now fold it and pull until as thin as paper, but not broken.

6. 6

   Roll up like jelly cake, curve in shape of an 8, and bake 1½ hours, basting often with ½ cup of butter.

7. 7

   Serve either hot or cold, in slices.

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

tablespoonfuls of cinnamon and sugar mixed, and i ounce butter. Bake in hot oven, and eat warm, sliced. APPBL STRUDEL. (German Apple Cake.) This is a very fine cake, but not often made properly, as it takes time. Mix i tablespoonful of butter with i large cup of flour, add i egg and suflicient milk to make a stiff paste. Knead for ^ hour, lay aside and cover, near the fire. Mix i dozen peeled and sliced apples with 2 cupfuls of fried bread-crumbs, % pound of chopped almonds, ^ cup of currants or raisins cut up

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