Apfelstrudel (german apple pie)

Time of preparation: 45 min

Dough:
1 cup of water
300g of flour
1 tbspoon of butter
2 tbspoons of sugar
1 tspoon of salt
1 yolk (for brushing)

Filling
2 cups of sugar
6 apples
100g of seedles raisins
4 tbspoons of breadcrums
juice from 1/2 lime
1 tbspoon of butter

Mix the flour, water, sugar and salt,working it untill you get a soft dough. Let it rest for 30 min. Over a kitchen cloth sprinkled with flour, open the dough, the thinnest the better. Spread some butter on top of the open dough. Spread the filling over the dough and spread little chuncks of butter on top of the filling. Roll the cloth, rolling the dough (like a suiss roll).
Put the strudel in a greased tray, giving it the shape of half moon. Brush with the yolk, bake it in medium heat (gas mark 6) for 30 minutes. When ready, sprinkle with sugar. Serve it with squirty cream.

The filling:

Peel the apples and remove the seeds. Cut it in thin slices, put it in a bowl and add the breadcrums. Heat up the butter (until golden) and add to the apple mixture. Add the raisins, sugar and lime juice. Mix it well and fill up the strudel

Cuca (german sweet bread) I

Cuca is a german sweet bread that my mum used to make at home. It is crunchy and sweet and can be filled with jam, chocolate or just plain.
This is the first variation from the ordinary recipe, which uses yeast. If you use yeast it tastes more like sweet bread. If you use baking soda, it tastes more like sponge cake. This one is with baking soda (which makes this recipe faster and easier) and no filling, so basic cuca today.

Time of preparation: 1 hour

4 cups of flour
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of milk
4 eggs
2 tbspoons of butter
2 tbspoons of baking soda

Crums:
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of flour
cinnamon
1 tbspoon of butter

Mix the eggs, the sugar and all the other ingredients until you get a homogeneous cake mix. Grease a tray, put on the cake mix and put the crums on top. Take it to a preheated oven for approximately 40 min (200 C). Stab it with a fork or toothpick to make sure it is ready.

For the crums, mix the ingredients in a big bowl and sprinkle the crums on top of the cake mix.

My biggest mistake when making this recipe is that my cake grew too much and swallowed the crums. If this happens to you, divide the cake mix in 2 trays.