How to Make Real German Apple Strudel. Mix flour, salt, baking powder, sugar, cinnamon, buttery flavored shortening and eggs to soft consistency. Add flour a tiny bit at a time,if more is needed, until not sticky just tacky.Dough is ready if you can put your finger in the dough and it comes out clean and not sticky. Knead dough about 10 minutes.
Lemon juice or vinegar: A small amount of either acid helps the dough relax and gives it some of its elasticity so it's easier to stretch out really thin without tearing as much. When making a traditional apple strudel recipe from scratch, the only potentially intimidating element is the strudel dough.
The authentic strudel dessert is a pastry made with delicate thin layers of dough and an apple filling made with thinly sliced apples, light oil, fine bread crumbs, cinnamon and white sugar. The dessert is super light because all you taste is delicious apples with thin layers of dough to hold them together.
Standard apple strudel calories can be up to 300 calories per serving whereas my apple strudel recipe is only 236 calories per serving. Of course as usual just let me say here that neither my other half or I exclude sugar or treats with sugar entirely from our diet.