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Exactly ow much of a food faux pas is rhubarb and blackberry crumble?

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Piffle · 04/09/2006 18:35

Condemn me as my mother has just literally spat at the thought.
got some organic fruit at the farmers market
Making a lovely crumble for pudding, thought as the blackberries needed eating I'd pop them in with rhubarb in the crumble
My mother has declared me gastronimcally insane.
I have morning sickness, she is lucky I've cooked for her at all

So how bad on the richter food scale is my mix huh?

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Blu · 04/09/2006 18:36

Copyright it before Nigel Slater featues it in the Autumn Observer Food supplement. It will be all the rage once it has been discovered!

LucyJones · 04/09/2006 18:36

I think it sounds yummy and very healthy

Greensleeves · 04/09/2006 18:36

your mother doesn't know she's born

I have made it before and jolly nice it was too by all accounts.

LIZS · 04/09/2006 18:37

Not a combination I'd have thought of .... in the circumstances she should be grateful though

Original poster
Piffle · 04/09/2006 18:37

Good I can normally quickly file her comments into the cantankerous old witch file, but I was a little unsure on this one...

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Milge · 04/09/2006 18:38

Both are quite sour tasting fruits, which is why your mother probably pulled a face. If I were her, I would put up and shut up!

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Piffle · 04/09/2006 18:40

I am feeding it to a 3 yr old and 12 yr old as well.
I have added sugar, I might lace her portion with lactulose

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HRHQueenOfQuotes · 04/09/2006 18:42

blimey my mum always used to make rhubarb and bramble (I'm a northern lass - so we don't call 'em blackberries LOL) crumble - sugar added of course to make it sweet enough to eat, but yummy wiht LOTS of custard

lorina · 04/09/2006 19:03

Sounds lovely. Think I would be after seconds !

sugarfree · 04/09/2006 19:10

[devil's advocate]It is blackberry and APPLE or rhubarb and GINGER or STRAWBERRIES.Them's the rules I'm afraid.You can't just go about mixing up your crumble fruits willy nilly like that.See sense woman![/devil's advocate]

divamummy · 04/09/2006 19:15

rhuharb and pear is my speciality, with ice cream or custard for dh

SueW · 04/09/2006 19:19

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Piffle · 05/09/2006 13:10

LOL
I'm a kiwi after all
Well she ate two helping after all that
It was really nice
I had a dream about hitting her with a shoe last night, quite viciously, I think I have unearthed some deeper feelings

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NomDePlume · 05/09/2006 13:11

I think it sounds nice and PMSL @ hitting her with a shoe

hunkermunker · 05/09/2006 13:15

ROFL at shoe hitting!

Crumble sounds lovely.

divamummy · 05/09/2006 16:15

well, at least i can vicuosly hit her in your dream

Tawny75 · 05/09/2006 16:19

I have this all the time, I love it. Tell your mum she has no idea what she is talking about.

But then again, I eat christmas cake with cheddar

sugarfree · 05/09/2006 17:47

Fruit mavericks!

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