Apfelstrudel Tirolese con Mele Renette e Pinoli
Trentino-Alto Adige
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Origin
Trentino-Alto Adige
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Description
The definitive baked strudel of the Alto Adige — paper-thin strudel pastry (not puff pastry or phyllo) stretched by hand over a flour-dusted cloth until translucent, then filled with sliced Renette apples, raisins plumped in rum, pine nuts, sugar, cinnamon and melted butter, rolled and baked until golden. The stretching technique is the foundation of the dish and cannot be replaced with commercial pastry.
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The Thread
—The Viennese original — same stretched pastry technique, same filling; the Alto Adige version is the Italian dialect of this pastry tradition Austrian
—Stretched pastry with apple filling — the Hungarian version uses more sugar and sometimes cottage cheese; the same hand-stretching technique Hungarian
—Yufka pastry stretched by hand until translucent — the Anatolian ancestor of all Central European stretched pastry traditions Turkish
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Flavour Context
Sweet-tart apple with cinnamon warmth; rum-raisin provides depth; pine nuts add crunch; the paper-thin pastry shatters and then melts — strudel as the highest expression of pastry simplicity
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