My grandchildren enjoy the apple crumble I make, but call it Nannie Crumble. Here’s how to create it.
Ingredients
- 1 lb cooking apples
- 3 oz sugar ( 2 oz for the puree, 1oz for the crumble)
- 2 oz porridge oats
- 2 oz self raising flour
- 2 oz butter
Firstly make the apple puree for the crumble. Peel and roughly chop or slice two or three large cooking apples dropping them into water as you go to prevent them from browning.
When all the apples are chopped, take them out of the water and put them in a saucepan. Add some water to the bottom of the pan to prevent the apples sticking – depending on the variety of apple you may need more or less water. Add 2 oz sugar to sweeten the apples. Cook the apples on a medium heat until soft.
I then mash the apples using a potato masher. You can leave them in soft chunks if you prefer. Put the apples in a baking dish.
For this particular dish I used 15 ounces of cooked pureed apples that I had prepared from the apples on my fruit trees and frozen earlier this year.
While the apples are cooking you can prepare the crumble. In a basin put equal quantities (2 oz each) of porridge oats, self raising flour and chopped hard butter. You will also need to add sugar – I use half the quantity of sugar to the other ingredients as I do not like the crumble too sweet.
Rub the butter into the other ingredients rolling it between your thumbs and fingers until the whole mix is like large bread crumbs.
Sprinkle the crumble mix on top of the apples and bake in a hot oven (190C) for fifteen to twenty minutes until the crumble is golden.
Eat either hot or cold with custard or cream or ice cream.
My grandchildren like eating the crumble cold with custard. I place the crumble in the middle of a dish making an island with the custard. Sometimes I add swishes of custard around the crumble so that it is a flower with custard petals. How do you like to eat it?
Enjoy!
Nannie RaRa 