The apple bread is a holiday dessert from Valea Stejarului: a fluffy dough, filled with grated and fried apples, baked in the oven.
🥣 Ingrediente
- flour
- salt
- yeast
- milk
- eggs
- sugar
- apples
👩🍳 Mod de preparare
In a larger bowl place the flour, salt and yeast with a little milk to leaven. Separate the eggs: whisk the egg whites, and whisk the yolks with a little sugar. Put the yolks over the beaten egg whites and mix.
Pour over the flour and knead until you get a good dough, then leave it to rise. Divide the dough into three and spread with a rolling pin. Grate the apples and fry them. Fill the spread dough sheet with apple, roll it from one edge, then place the roll in the tray and bake.
📖 Povestea rețetei
Recipe from Maria Ilieș, 77 years old, from Valea Stejarului, collected by the Maramureș County Museum in Sighetu Marmației within the Maramureș – GastroEtnoArt project. The apple bread was made in Maramureș for holidays and communal working bees (clăci), along with other traditional sweets.
Photo source: Wikimedia Commons (Apple Strudel, CC BY 2.0)
🔍 Ce urmează
If you liked this recipe, also try Beans with plums – the sweet and sour fasting soup from Vadu Izei.
