Yield: 8 Servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
1 pack | Yeast; Dry, Active |
4 tablespoons | Sugar |
½ teaspoon | Salt |
2 cups | Flour; Unbleached, |
¼ cup | Butter or Margarine |
1 \N | Egg; Large |
½ cup | Milk |
4 cups | Apples; Tart, Sliced |
¼ cup | Sugar |
¼ teaspoon | Cinnamon |
½ cup | Raisins |
½ cup | Almonds, slivered, blanched |
2 tablespoons | Butter |
\N \N | Confectioner's sugar |
CAKE
FILLING
CAKE: Mix yeast, salt, 4 T sugar, and ¾ cup flour. Add butter to milk.
Heat until very warm (120-130 degrees F.). Gradually add milk to flour mixture. Beat for 2 minutes. Add egg and ½ cup flour. Beat with an electric mixer on high speed for 2 minutes. Mix in enough flour to form a soft dough. Knead for 5 to 10 minutes, until dough is shiny and elastic.
Place in greased bowl and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled in bulk. Pat dough into well-greased 10-inch springform pan pressing the dough 1½ inches up the sides of the pan. Or use 11x8 pan, grease well.
FILLING: Lay apple slices across bottom, combine sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle over apples. Add raisins, butter, and almonds. Bake in a preheated 400 degree F. oven until pastry is brown and apples bubbly with syrup, about 45 minutes. Sprinkle confectioner's sugar over top.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Renate S." <redgrapes13@...> on Sep 28, 1998