Apple Strudel with Vanilla Cream Anglaise | Cruise Scoop

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. tart apples (gala, winesap or gala) peeled, cored and thinly sliced 1/4 inch thick
• ¼ cup golden raisins
• 2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons golden rum
• 1 ½ cups graham crackers
• ½ cup coarsely chopped walnuts
• cinnamon sugar (1/4 cup sugar with 1 tsp. cinnamon)
• 1 1/3 cups unbleached flour
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, s0ftened
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 tsp. sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup to ½ cup water
• 2 cups half and half
• 1/2 vanilla bean, split lengthwise and scraped
• 5 large egg yolks
• ¼ cup sugar
• pinch of salt
• optional: 1 tablespoon dark rum or calvados (apple liquor)