Watty's Awakening

Greying_Pilgrim

Watty - I always use Nig3lla's crumble recipe out of her 'How to Eat' book.  I chop up whatever fruit I've got, and put it in a pyrex bowl, I either use my 8"x6"x2" (LxWxD) oblong one, or the 8" round one (probs about 1.5" deep).  The crumble recipe is;

120g plain flour
90g fat (butter, margarine or baking fat)
3 Tablespoons of sugar - or to taste.  

Method - rub the fat into the flour, stir in the sugar.  Done.

The ratio makes a reasonable topping for the size dishes I use, and of course you can add in spices/chopped nuts/almonds etc to the mix, as is your preference.  

HTH - I found when starting out cooking the cookbooks didn't have anything as 'ordinary' as crumble mix - that's where Nig3lla scored with her H2E tome.  

Greying X 

KajiKita

Greying_Pilgrim said:

HTH - I found when starting out cooking the cookbooks didn't have anything as 'ordinary' as crumble mix - that's where Nig3lla scored with her H2E tome.  

Greying X 

That's why D3lia's thick tome, 'How to Cook' always has a place on my bookshelf

I notice everyone has that 'one cookbook that teaches you the basics' ... My dad's is Constance Spry - a generational thing I think.

KK

Slinky

I found a cheats way of making crumble. I melt the butter in the microwave and stir it into the flour with a fork, stir in the sugar and let it cool down so the butter hardens again. Saves getting crumble mix under your nails. I also use 50/50 flour and coconut flour to make it less carby. Needs to be covered with tinfoil for half the cooking time or it will burn.

badmemory

Personally I do not like crumble, no idea why - but - I do like batter pudding.  Similar to toad in the hole.  My absolute favorite is rhubarb batter pudding.  The hard bit is finding the rhubarb.

Watty1

Greying that is super helpful as online suggestions seem to involve a lot of things I did not have!   Slinky's tip is too as my finger nails always need a good scrub before making anything that needs "rubbing in".  That is apple crumble on the menu this week. 
  
I realised looking in the cupboard how much I have been struggling as there are things in there I can barely remember buying and stuff I was in the process of using up on a budget drive.     I need to get back to that and feeling so much better today I used a bag of mixed nuts, some seeds and some oats that I think PPH might have left behind to make granola.   That is now safely stored in one of my charity shop kilner jars and a redcurrant puree has been made and frozen in large ice cube trays. I wasn't eating the redcurrants as they have been in the freezer for some considerable time so this way they can defrost and be eaten with yoghurt and granola.

I feel so much happier today, more so than in a long time and able to do a little more other than just work for the first time in what seems like months.