Pear Strudel
Ingrediënten
Ingredients for 10 Servings
- Basic strudel dough or ready-made dough
- 3 lbs 1.3 kg Pears, fully ripe
- 3.5 oz 100 g Raisins
- 3.5 oz 100 g Almonds, grated and roasted
- ½ cup 120 g Sugar
- 5 oz 150 g Sponge cake crumbs
- 4 tsp 20 g Vanilla sugar
- 2 tsp 1 cl lemon juice
- 7 tbsp 10 cl Poire Williams
- 7 tbsp 100 g Butter, melted
- Flour for the work surface
- Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
Instructies
- Preheat oven to 350 °F (180 °C).
- Prepare the strudel dough according to the basic recipe.
- Peel, quarter, and core the pears.
- Cut the pears into thin slices and mix with raisins, almonds, cake crumbs, sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon juice, and Poire Williams.
- Lay a cloth on the work surface and flour evenly.
- Lightly flour the dough as well and place on the cloth.
- With a rolling pin, roll the dough out as thinly as possible.
- Then slide both hands under the dough, palms down, and slowly stretch it in all directions, until it’s so thin that you could read a newspaper through it.
- Be very careful not to tear the dough.
- Saturate the dough with ¾ of the butter.
- Lay the filling on the dough in a strip.
- With the help of the cloth, fold the dough over the filling and then fold around once.
- Cut off extra.
- Place the strudel with the seam down on a buttered baking sheet and brush with the rest of the butter.
- Bake for about 40 minutes.
- Dust with confectioner’s sugar and serve while still warm.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
When served with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream, this pear strudel is a delicate, sweet ending to a fine menu.
