Strudel with Fried Apples

During my ninth-grade choir trip to Austria, I swooned over a Sacher torte, savored my first real schnitzel, and realized the frozen toaster pastries were, in fact, not how strudels were supposed to taste. Surrounded by scenery straight out of The Sound of Music, each bite had me singing about girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Though I’d never admit it to an Austrian, I remember thinking then that the flaky pastry would be even more divine if it were filled with the Sout