Apple/Goosebury Crumble Recipe

jonny2510

Am cooking for my Mum & In Laws next weekend, and thought I'd finish off with an apple crumble.

OH has just informed me however she wants gooseberry crumble!

Can I do apple & goosebury crumble?

If anyone could take the time to give me a recipe, with quantities, and times (I'm new to cooking!) it would be really appreciated!

Fen1

You can certainly mix apple and gooseberry. The amount of sugar you put in will depend on the acidity of the gooseberries, so you might need to be a little bit more generous than with a plain apple crumble. Remember to use cooking apples, not eaters, roughly chopped, to give you the best flavour and texture.

Always use cold butter, not room temp, so that you get a crumbly texture.Try using a couple of big forks to mix, rather then hands, to keep the mixture cold and lumpy.
If you have not made crumble topping before, try one of the museli style toppings (cereal, fruit, flour and butter ) as they will stay crumblier. The risk with crumble topping, especially if you don't get a bit of practice in beforehand, is that it ends up like a layer of concrete because the mixture has been overworked.

The following links might give you some ideas:

http://www.waitrose.com/recipes/search.aspx?q=crumble

http://www.deliaonline.com/search/?qx=crumble


http://www.nigella.com/recipes/index.asp?search=1&Course=3&Ingredient=0&Keywords=crumble

csarina

I partially cook my fruit first and allow it to cool then put the crumble top on.

4ozs plain flour.
2 ozs butter or marg.
2 ozs sugar.

Rub the fat into the flour and sugar until it resembles bread crumbs, then stir in 2 or 3 tablespoons of porrige oats, tip onto the fruit and then sprinkle some demerarra sugar on the top. In the oven 180 for about 40 minutes until the sugar has started to caramelise and the crumble is goldren brown. Serve with cream or custard.

ellie2912

thanks for the tips i have asked DM for her recipe but she just says to judge by eye,and cant give measurements. im useless at guesswork till i get the hang of something first,maybe its a confidence thing

jonny2510

Cool,

thanks for the replies. I guess I'll try the porridge oats thing as well (I'm going to make flapjacks this week too )

nitnurse-not!

you can add some porrige oats to the crumble topping and this gives a nutty flavour. If you are rich you could even add chopped nuts!

Eels100

Crumbles are great because they're so easy - I tend to keep a bag of frozen summer fruits in the freezer and then chuck a handful in with any fruit I need to use up, bung crumble mix on top and voila! - pudding!

I will confess to often cheating and buying Co-op crumble mix (quicker and cleaner but you need to hide the packet before anyone spots it ). I tend to chop my apples roughly, sprinkle with *some* sugar (usually a lot more than you think you'll need!) and then zap them in the microwave for a few minutes on high. If you are using gooseberry (this will be delicious, I love gooseberries!) then chop them in halves and add them at the same time. Once they're hot and mushy from the microwave you can taste them in case you need more sugar. Then bung the crumble mix on top (there's a good recipe for proper crumble mix in the Indexed thread somewhere) and bake for around 40 mins not too hot (~180-ish I think).

I know it's daunting for the first time, and especially if you really feel you need quantities, but you'll get a feel for it quickly. Why not do a trial run before the big day? And remember the OS golden rule - if in doubt, cover it in custard!