Ingredients:

For the sheet of pastry:

½ Glass of Lukewarm Water
250 gr. of Flour
2 Spoons of Olive Oil
A small quantity of Salt
1 Egg

For the Filling

100 gr. of Butter (to toast the breadcrumbs)
100 gr. of Melted Butter (to grease the baking pan)
2 Teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder
The Minced Peel of 1 Lemon
1 kg of  Golden Apples
150 gr. of Breadcrumbs
50 gr. of Pine Nuts
100 gr. of Sultana
120 gr.  of Sugar

For the covering

Some Icing sugar

Directions:

Pour the flour on the table adding in its centre the egg, the salt and the oil. Start mixing everything together adding very slowly the water you need  to make your dough solid, smooth and elastic. When you finish to do that, you should form a ball greasing it with olive oil and letting it stand for 30 minutes in a cool place.

In the meanwhile pre-soak the sultana in the lukewarm water, toast the breadcrumbs in the butter and then peel the apples eliminating their core and cutting them into very thin slices. Turn on the oven at 200°.

Take the dough and roll it out on a duster covered with flour forming a rectangle. You have to do this until the sheet of pastry becomes as thin as a sheet of paper.

After that, you should grease the sheet of pastry using the half part of the melted butter ( leaving a border of 2-3 cm) and put on it the half part of the toasted breadcrumbs. Now add the apples slices, the squeezed sultana, the pine nuts, some cinnamon powder, the sugar and the minced lemon peel. Finally cover everything using the remaining  breadcrumbs.

Roll up the strudel starting from the longer side avoiding to damage the dough: it would be easier to use the duster placed under it.

Once having formed the roll seal it very carefully in order to prevent the filling to leak in the oven.

Then put the strudel on a buttered baking pan (or on a sheet of greaseproof paper) then brush the dough surface with the remaining melted butter.

At this point you can put the strudel into the oven at 200° for 40 minutes.

Once cooked, cover the strudel with some icing sugar and serve it lukewarm and cut into slices.

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