How to make an Apple Crumble

Many overseas fans are keen to know what a "Crumble" is and indeed how to make one.
Lorraine answered a French boy's enquiry and went round to his house to help him out.
This recipe is only for a few people.
Here's what happened!

The ingredients required are as follows:-

Photograph of Peeling the Apples

2 lb/900g cooking Apples
7 oz/175g Demerara Sugar
A little Lemon rind
A little water
3 oz/75g butter or margarine
6 oz/150g plain flour
3 oz/75g sugar
Pinch of mixed spice or nutmeg
Caster sugar for dredging

1) Preheat the oven to gas Mark 4 or 180 degrees C, (350 degrees F).

2) First peel your Apples. If you like a bit of rough then leave a little bit of the skin on! Whatever you do, put the bits you have peeled into a dish of water and a little bit of lemon rind so they don't turn really brown.

3) Then put the Apples in a saucepan with a bit of water and half of the Demerara Sugar.
If you like a bit of spice then add some! Mixing flour

Cook gently with the lid on until a tiny bit soft.

4) Whilst that's doing, rub the fat into the flour using the rubbing-in-method all schoolgirls learn while at secondary school - until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Then mix in the rest of the sugar, spice and mix well.

5) Pop the Apples in a casserole dish (put enough water to with these to moisten them but not so much as to drown them!) and sprinkle the crumble mixture carefully on top. DON'T press it down or try to flatten it out. Then put it in the oven.

Photograph of cooking

6) Bake for 30-40 minutes until the Crumble is golden brown.
Remove from the oven, sprinkle a little caster sugar over the top and serve hot. Doesn't it look gorgeous!.

7) "A bit of custard, a bit of cream..." Shame to eat it on its own so get down to making a bit of custard while its cooking.


Photograph of eating

The completed Crumble Pie

8) Wow it's ready at last and we're dying to eat it - would you like some?


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Last revised: 1st September 2006.