Wanted: Apple Crumble recipe

[OverWyreGrower]

We've got a cooking apple tree at the back of the garden, with some seriously huge apples on (they are very tart, so we've deduced they are cooking apples), and I've rescued them from the floor before they go rotten.

Does anyone have a recipe for apple crumble? I'm not a novice cook, so it can be as complicated as you like!

Thanks!!

[nick the grief]

You need to speak to my Daughter OWG, she make Crumble to die for, It's even better than mine and thats saying something (I'm know for my modesty by the way )

Crumble topping
75g (3oz) butter (unsalted)
50g (2oz) ground Almonds (or porridge oats or 50:50 mix)
125g (40z) caster sugar
150g (5oz) plain flower

put it all in a food processor & blitz till it looks like crumble !

I usually make double the quantity - thats how I maintain my figure

For the other bit, a lot depends on whether the apples cook to a fluff or retain their shape. I always think it's nice to have some lumps in it to chew on rather than baby food with a crumble topping. So assuming they keep their shape:-

5 or 6 large apples
25g (1oz) butter
50-65g (2 - 2.5oz) caster sugar

peel & core the apples & roughly chop. Melt the butter ina pan, ad the apples & cooke over a high heat till just soft (sort of Al dente if it were pasta) turning frequently. Add the sugar to taste & disolved.

then fill the baking dish with the filling, add the crumble mix to the top sprinkle with a bit more sugar & bake for 25-30 mins in a pre heated oven (180c -160c fan assisted - Gasmark 4) till golden brown serve with lashings of Birds custard (or this nancy cream muck if you must )

Also nice with Blackberriers added.

Also as winter draws on (I'll resist the obvious joke LJ ) how about backed apples with mince meat filling?

[Sunbeam]

I use the same crumble recipe, Nick, but use demerera instead of caster & I like my apples completely pulped - with a little butter stirred through - I too feel the need to maintain my curves!!!!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Yum yum! that sounds super! can't wait to get cooking ! dexterdog

[blackkitty]

Apple muffins are also good:
200g Self raising flour
100g butter
100g sugar
2 eggs
1 large apple

preheat oven to gas 5, 180 electric. Rub the butter into the flour, add the sugar and eggs. Chop the apple up into 1cm cubes and add (to peel or not to peel - its up to you). You may need to add about 2 tablespoons of milk to get a soft dropping consistency. Divide into twelve or more paper cases. I use cake ones and make about 18. Sprinkle a liitle demerera sugar mixed with a pinch of cinnamon on top. Bake for about 20 minutes till risen and brown. You can also adda handful of sultanas or other dried fruit.
Strictly speaking these aren't real muffins but they taste pretty good. The recipe has been tested to destruction by whole classes of year 8's and they love it.
You can make a large cake with the same mixture but I don't think its as good.

[nick the grief]

Hadn't thought along the cake line BK. The Chairman of the local rmblers club does a "bostin" (Local word for most excellent) Apple cake, I'll see if i've got the recipe for that.

How about Apple Dumplings as well ..... Ooooh must stop.....drooling over the keyboard

[OverWyreGrower]

Thanks guys! Am starving now I've read those! Will give them a try over the weekend!

[OverWyreGrower]

I tried blackkitty's apple muffin recipe tonight - they are to die for!!

The only thing is, I'd forgotten what b@stards apples are to work with when cooking!!

[eskymo]

I always mix in one teaspoon of cinamon and a pinch of nutmeg and also the juice of half a lemon into my apples and sometimes add finely chopped mixed nuts to my crumble mix.

Late on in the season you can add blackberries too.

[JennieAtkinson]

Like Eskymo - I always grind some fresh nutmeg into the apples.

Like the sound of the apple muffins - will have a go this weekend. How many hours of digging does one have to do to negate the calorie content?

[blackkitty]

Glad you liked them

[dragonz]

100g flour (wholemeal works well - but any sort is good)
100g Castor Sugar
50g butter
a bit of cinnamon to taste

put all of the above in a dish and rub in the butter until you get a crumbley texture

in a oven proof dish put
apples peeled, cored and chopped up
a hadfull of raisins or sultanas
cinnamon to taste

over in a good layer of sugar, a good splash of calvados/apple brandy or something like that

put the crumble mixture on top and pat down to firm the top

bake at 180C for about 30-40 min until the top is golden and the fruit bubbling


other good combinations are

rhubard and ginger wine
apple and blackberry
strawberry and mint

[TPeers]

I'm green with envy and drooling with hunger! The most obvious question to me is :- How do I pursuade my two young (3 yrs old) apple trees that producing some fruit would be nice!? How old does a tree have to be before it starts to produce fruit - I have one or two fruit on one tree but none on the other. The pair of trees were a house warming present from my Dad (lovely!)

[sewer rat]

OWG
Where can I but the b@stard apples that you refer to ? - I haven't heard of this variety before - and think they would be perfect for my garden, as I already grow f@**in' peas, bl**dy beans, bollo@ beetroot and so@ding cabbages

[JennieAtkinson]

I liked that one SR