Apple Roll

Ingredients

• 1 quart flour
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon lard
• 1 teaspoon fine salt
• 1 teacupful water
• 1.5 pounds apples
• dry sugar
• water for boiling

Instructions

1. Work the lard or butter into the flour dry until thoroughly mixed.
2. Add salt and water a little at a time, mixing until the dough is thick enough to roll on the pastry block.
3. Sprinkle dry flour on the work surface to prevent the dough from sticking.
4. Peel and cut the apples very thin.
5. Roll out the dough as thin as pie crust to dimensions of approximately eighteen by ten inches and prepare three sheets of this size.
6. Lay one sheet of dough down and cover it with apples.
7. Sprinkle dry sugar over the layer of apples.
8. Lay the second sheet of dough down and cover it with apples.
9. Sprinkle dry sugar over this second layer of apples.
10. Lay the third sheet of dough down and cover it with apples.
11. Sprinkle dry sugar over the third layer of apples.
12. Roll the whole assembly up together as you would roll a towel.
13. Wet a white cloth in cold water and wrap it tightly around the roll, sewing it securely closed.
14. Place the wrapped roll into a pot of boiling water with enough water to cover it completely.
15. Cook for no more than twenty minutes.