Recipe - Apple Filling For Strudel

*INGREDIENTS*
10 cup Apples, slices thin
1 Stick butter
1 cup Bread crumbs, very fine
1 cup Sugar, or more if apples are
tart
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 Lemon rind (grandma does NOT
use this)
One half Stick butter, melted

Source: Treasured Slovenian & International Recipes

*DIRECTIONS* Melt stick of butter and lightly brown the bread crumbs. Set
aside to cool. Sprinkle the cooled bread crumbs over the stretched dough.
Spread the cut or sliced up apples evenly over the dough and sprinkle sugar, cinnamon
and lemon rind over the apples. Melt the One half stick of butter and when it
has cooled spoon over the apples. Roll up dough. Place in well greased pan
and bake in 350 F oven for one hour.

notes: Be careful not to puncture the dough when transferring to the pan,
otherwise the strudel will stick to the pan.

*VARIATIONS* Instead of lemon rind Grandma uses lemon juice. Grandma also
waits until the dough is ready to slice the apples, that way they don't
turn brown. She also uses the slicer on the side of a grater to slice the
apples really thin.

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