This is a cheat’s recipe. There’s no stretching and stretching and stretching and reading love letters through the dough involved. Apparently the proper strudel pastry, well stretched, you can read love letters through. I wonder – what about hate mail? Can you also read through it? I might be about to find out as the strudel aficionados go up in arms and grind me to the ground for my cheating, yeasty, not-so-thin-at-all dough.
It works though. It’s really tasty and not much effort. Get the dough going, knead a bit, let prove, stretch if you want to be true to form, roll out if you don’t care – like I did. What’s delishhh is the apple chunks generously flavoured with cinnamon and interspersed with raisins – wrapped up in delicious pastry, rolled up and cut to pretend it’s strudel. What are we, the home amateur cooks – just cheats, mainly…
I still think this is better than using shop-bought filo pastry that so many recipes recommend. There, see? I’m one up. Even if I’ve not stretched and stretched.