Strasbourg-style Cake

Description
In Romanian: Prajitura de Strasburg

Ingredients

 * 8 oz / 250 g flour
 * 8 oz / 250 g butter
 * 2 lbs / 1 kg apples
 * 1 cup granulated sugar
 * 1 teaspoon confectioner's sugar
 * 1 tablespoon water
 * 2 yolks
 * salt
 * cinnamon
 * shortening for greasing the pan
 * egg mixed with sweetened water

Directions

 * 1) Put the flour in a mound on the pastry board.
 * 2) Put 1 tablespoon water, yolks, butter, salt and 1 teaspoon confectioner's sugar in the middle of the flour.
 * 3) Knead well. Let the resulting dough rest, covered with an inverted bowl, for two hours.
 * 4) In the meantime, peel the apples, cut into thin slices and sprinkle with cinnamon.
 * 5) Then divide the dough into 2 equal parts.
 * 6) Roll each of them into a ¼ inch thick sheet.
 * 7) Lay the first sheet in the greased pan, the apples sprinkled with 1 cup granulated sugar on top of the first sheet.
 * 8) Cover with the second sheet and wash with a little egg mixed with 1 tablespoon sweetened water.
 * 9) Bake at medium heat and when done, cut into medium squares.