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Three cups sifted flour.
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Make well.
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Add 2 beaten eggs.
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Mix with wire beater.
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Add 1/2 cup warm water and 1 tablespoon melted butter.
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Mix well with spoon and knead with fingers for about 2 minutes, adding flour as needed to prevent sticking, and making it into a ball.
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Put dough in a bowl covered with a dish towel and set aside in a warm place (I use my oven which is warm because of the pilot light.
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Don't light oven until much later on).
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This whole procedure is quite time consuming and takes about 1 1/2 hours to prepare.
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Let dough rest while peeling and slicing 3 pounds large MacIntosh apples.
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(Pick largest apples you can find to facilitate peeling procedure.)
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STEP TWO: Cut dough in half.
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Put half back in bowl covered with dish towel in warm place.
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On top of a well floured cloth tablecloth roll out 1/2 dough.
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Drizzle on 1 tablespoon melted butter spreading all over rolled out dough.
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Pick up rolled out dough and stretch as much as possible (just like a pizza dough is stretched, making fists with hands to prevent making too many holes in dough -- usually a hole or two appears which is not unusual).
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Put back on well floured tablecloth.
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Next try to achieve a paper thin dough by pulling all around and around it with the fingers.
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Don't worry if there are a few holes here and there.
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STEP THREE: Using HALF of the thinly sliced apples, spread them all uniformly over dough that you covered the tablecloth with.
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Sprinkle on top of apples: 7 to 9 teaspoons sugar according to taste and depending on tartness of apples -- 4 teaspoons bread crumbs -- sift cinnamon all over above- drizzle on 1/4 pound melted butter -- also 2 beaten eggs spreading the eggs with a fork in a circular motion.
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Pick up the tablecloth and make a long roll and carefully lift roll into a large ungreased shallow baking pan.
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If you prefer you may put the roll into a pie plate starting in the middle and making a circle with the roll.
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Repeat steps 2 and 3, using second half of dough and the remaining half of apples.
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Since these steps take about 20 minutes, allow about 10 minutes to preheat the oven to 400F (200C).
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After making the roll, if you choose to use a large shallow baking pan careful ly put the roll in the pan right along with first half of roll.
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You will have about four strips in the pan because the roll will be that long.
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If you used a pie plate, take a second pie plate for the second half of the strudel.
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Now you are finally ready to put the strudl in the oven: 400F (200C) for 40 minutes and 15 minutes more at 350F (180C).
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Allow strudl to cool 20 to 25 minutes.
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Slice and put on serving plate.
