Opps - Help With Apple Crumble

10past6

Hi peeps

I'm in the process of making an apple crumble, I was making the crumble but decided to put it into the food processor thinking it would be a better texture, oppps, that was an error, as it's come out like pate, any idea how I can get it into a crumble stage, instead of throwing the mixture away and starting again?

hotcookie101

I always make my crumble mix in food processor and comes out fine-if really paste like maybe add more flour and sugar?

10past6

hotcookie101 wrote: »

I always make my crumble mix in food processor and comes out fine-if really paste like maybe add more flour and sugar?

Cheers HC

I've aded more flour & sugar, but it's still like pate, I wonder if I'm using the right attachment in the food processor.

*Does this confirm how hopeless I am at cooking*

Magentasue

How much flour/butter/sugar did you use?

I have made crumble in processor and it's been fine but I suppose if you left it on long enough it would clump like pastry. Apple pie perhaps?

10past6

Magentasue wrote: »

How much flour/butter/sugar did you use?

I have made crumble in processor and it's been fine but I suppose if you left it on long enough it would clump like pastry. Apple pie perhaps?

Hi Sue

I used 4oz sr flour / 4oz margarine / 4oz sugar.

I've remamde the crumble using my fingers, I'm now stuck with the mixture from food processor :eek:

Magentasue

I use 8oz flour, 5oz butter and 3oz sugar so I think you could safely whizz in quite a bit of flour.

FairyElephant_2

Hiya,

I always use approx half the weight of fat to the weight of flour, and the same weight of sugar as fat....

ie. 4oz fat, 4oz sugar, 8oz flour.

I say approx 'cos I dopn't normally weigh it nowadays - I just guess!


You could mix in some dried porridge oats with the stodgy mix - theyare nice in crumble topping & will 'dry' it out a bit.

You can always freeze the surplus topping (when you get it right!) to use another day.

susank

Add an egg yolk or water and whizz up again and make pastry

10past6

Hi peeps

Thanks for the assistance, as suggested I put some porridge oats in, hummmm, well, it seems OK, I must get to grips with this food processor tho :mad:

Many thanks to you all

hotcookie101

10past6 wrote: »

Cheers HC

I've aded more flour & sugar, but it's still like pate, I wonder if I'm using the right attachment in the food processor.

*Does this confirm how hopeless I am at cooking*

I can't remember what quantities I use (I always ring my mum before I make up a MASSIVE batch of crumble mix-I freeze it in a bag ready to use) but I use the really sharp blade bits for the FP to make mine-just pulse it til it looks like breadcrumbs (which I also blitz in FP and freeze, and once made apple crumble with a lovely breadcrumb topping!:o)
I do use cold butter straight from fridge too, don't know if that makes a difference?

tootiefrooties

A bit like the oats suggestion, but we're more likely to have it in the house: cornflakes broken up in the crumble mix give it a nice texture, for added crunchiness.