Poppy Seed Strudel

Poppy strudel is a traditional dessert in South East Europe. It is really delicious and for you, I found my grandmother's old resipe for this strudel whick everyone loves. I hope you'll like it too.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• 400 gr. of flour
• 80 gr. of butter
• 80 gr. of sugar
• 1 sachet of yeast
• 2-3 dl. of milk
• 2 egg yolks
• salt
• lemon peel

Filling:

• 250 gr. of poppy seed
• 250 ml. of milk
• 80 gr. of raisins
• 150 gr. of sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• lemon peel, cinnamon, rum
• 60 gr. of butter for greasing
• powdered sugar for decoration

Preparation:

Filling:

1. Pour hot milk on ground poppy, boil, add sugar, raisins, vanilla sugar, lemon peel, cinnamom and rum. 
2. Mix well and leave to cool.

Dough:

1. Mix the yeast, a teaspoon of flour and a teblespoon of sugar with some lukewarm water.
2. Cover with a tpwel and leave in a warm place to rise.
3. Put the flour in a bowl, add the melted butter, egg yolks, sugar, salt, lemon peel and risen yeast in the middle.
4. The dough is soft so you can knead it with electric mixer. When its done, leave it in a warm place to rise an hour.
5. Divide dough into two pieces, roll out each piece on a floured surface to rectangles (20x30 cm).
6. Grease it with melted butter and then with filling.
7. Form two strudels and leave it covered for another half an hour to rise.
8. Brush with egg white and bake in the over at 200C for about an hour.
9. Baked strudels sprinkle with sugar, let it cool and cut into slices.

Enjoy. :)