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Cherry strudel
Photo: Becks, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (cropped)

Pastry · Recipe No. 311

Strudel Paste - Cherry Strudel

Strudel Paste - Cherry Strudel made with plain flour, egg, butter and cherries. The recipe serves 6; change the portions and units below and the amounts update.

  • Serves 6

Method

  1. Sieve flour and salt and make well. Place egg, butter and water in centre and work to a smooth dough.

  2. Cover with damp cloth and relax twenty mins.

  3. Heat oven to gas 5 and grease baking tray.

  4. Roll into as large a square as possible leave to rest 15 mins, place on a large teatowel or sheet.

  5. Flour hands and place under the dough carefully stretch as thin as possible.

  6. Brush with butter and use at once.

  7. Sprinkle with cherries, sugar, & walnuts, cinnamon if using and lemon rind.

  8. Trim off thick edges.

  9. Transfer rolls to prepared baking tray and bake in preheated oven 30-40 mins.

  10. Serve hot sprinkled with icing sugar.

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Chef’s notes

  • When streching the pastry it is best to work in pairs from opposite ends.

Shopping list for 6 portions

Fruit & veg

Dairy & eggs

Baking

Store cupboard (check you have)

Converted from the Cookeryonline Excel workbook “Strudel - Cherry”.