Apple Strudel

Name: Apple Strudel
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Eastern European & German
Ingredients: 1 3/4 pounds, Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 3 tablespoons, granulated sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, grated lemon zest plus 1 1/2 teaspoons juice; 1/4 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon, ground ginger; , Salt; 3 tablespoons, golden raisins; 1 1/2 tablespoons, panko bread crumbs; 7 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 1 tablespoon, confectioners' sugar, plus extra for serving; 14 (14 by 9-inch), phyllo sheets, thawed

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2016, America's Test Kitchen TV

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Eastern European & German

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Unless you’re a skilled pastry chef, wrapping ultrathin, delicate dough around a wet filling is usually a recipe for disaster. We wanted a strudel recipe for the rest of us.

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Most modern phyllo-based versions of strudel have tough layers of phyllo on the underside, while the sheets on top shatter before you even cut a slice. Meanwhile, fillings collapse and leak everywhere, despite the bread crumbs supposedly ad...

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