REC from Bavaria: Apfel-Rahm-Strudel (Apple Cream Strudel)

richard-in-cincy

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Homemade strudel dough or phyllo sheets

1 kilograms tart apples

250 grams of potatoes (russet)

30 grams of coarse bread crumbs

80 grams butter

80 grams sugar

150 grams crème fraiche

50 grams almonds, slivered

250 grams whipped cream

1 cinnamon stick

Prepare your favorite strudel pastry or use phyllo sheets.

Peel the apples and potatoes. Slice the apples into quarters, remove core and cut the apple quarters crosswise into slices. Slice potatoes into thin slices.

Toast the breadcrumbs in a frying pan to make them crispier.

Divide dough into 3 portions and create 3 rectangles (25 x 35 cm). Or use phyllo, and roll one at a time with the usual phyllo method.

Melt butter and brush the dough with half the butter. Sprinkle bread crumbs on it and cover with apple slices and potato slices, to within 5 cm of the edge, leaving a border.

Sprinkle filling with 40 g sugar. Divide the crème fraîche over the three strudels and sprinkle the almonds on top.

Optional, sprinkle with a few raisins and a light dusting of cinnamon.

Starting on a long edge, fold a pastry border over the filling and continue to roll up the strudels with the aid of a kitchen towel.

Place the strudel rolls with the seam down side by side in an ovenproof casserole dish or pan just large enough to hold them that has been brushed with butter and sprinkled with 2 tablespoons of sugar.

Brush the strudels with the remaining butter, covering all.

Preheat oven to 400F.

Bring the whipping cream, the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon to a boil. Remove cinnamon stick. Pour hot cinnamon cream over the strudels and sprinkle with the remaining almonds.

Bake the strudel in the oven for 50-60 minutes.

 
Starch...

they bind the apple filling better than apples alone (which can sometimes be like shingles in a strudel) and provide a more cohesive and creamier filling. Thats why it's appropriate to use a mealy russet potato that disentegrates as it cooks and releases its starch over a waxy potato that holds together.

Old Bavarian tradition.

 
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