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Apfelstrudel
Thin, hand-stretched pastry rolled around sliced apples, raisins, cinnamon and breadcrumbs, baked until the crust turns golden and flaky.
Where it comes from
Associated with Habsburg-era kitchens, its stretched-dough technique likely arrived through Ottoman-influenced Central European baking rather than developing in Austria alone, a path food historians still debate.
What cooks argue about
Stretching the dough by hand until thin enough to read newsprint through it is the traditional test; whether store-bought phyllo, a common shortcut, still counts as strudel is the real argument.
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