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One-handed crumble topping recipe

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EsmeNoteSpelling · 28/08/2021 10:19

Hi everyone

I am temporarily unable to use one hand due to an injury. I really fancy a crumble but can’t rub in flour and butter. Does anybody have a recipe that can be made with no rubbing in, and entirely with one hand? Thanks in advance!

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DoubleTweenQueen · 28/08/2021 10:57

Am going to use the melted butter method now! My crumble never makes those nice crunchy chunks! :D

Chasingsquirrels · 28/08/2021 10:59

Oh, and I always use cold butter straight from the fridge and don't bother cutting it up, just chuck a block of however much in.

My mum brought me apples & blackberries from their garden yesterday. They are coming over for a meal on Monday, I'm making apple & blackberry crumble.

I use a Delia recipe, and add cinnamon, nutmeg & ginger.

If I make too much I put it in a tuperware in the fridge and it gets used up in single serves (ds1 just eats cooked crumble, won't have fruit with it).

Chasingsquirrels · 28/08/2021 11:00

My easiest crumble is apricot using tinned apricot halves. Open tin, drain, pour into dish, add food processor crumble.

WeAreTheHeroes · 28/08/2021 11:06

I wouldn't use flour at all - I find it a bit claggy tbh so I'd use oats with some ground almonds. Lots of stone fruits are really good with almond.

EsmeNoteSpelling · 28/08/2021 11:06

What proportions/quantities @WeAreTheHeroes ? Sounds interesting

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Daisydoesnt · 28/08/2021 11:10

I have contact dermatitis on one hand and flour REALLY sets it off. Trust me, you absolutely can rub in with one hand if you want to. I’ve made shortcrust, crumble topping and even pate sucre with one hand.

Chasingsquirrels · 28/08/2021 11:11

Actually I don't use the Delia recipe - I halve the flour and replace with an equal quantity of oats.

WeAreTheHeroes · 28/08/2021 11:18

180g oats, 60g ground almonds or mix of ground almonds and crushed biscuits, 100g sugar, 100g melted butter. You can vary the sugar, e.g. use brown sugar, muscovado, etc for flavour. Add cinnamon if you like.

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 28/08/2021 11:19

i'd just throw it all into a bowl, melt the butter in a jug and mix the butter into the dry with a knife

My crumble is never the same twice tbh...I use a combination of flour, oats, muesli, butter, sugar (sometime brown, or golden, or caster, or demerara) biscuit crumbs, flaked almonds, chopped/crushed nuts, ground almonds....plus a shake of random spices to match the fruit.
It's a thorough rake about the cupboard to use up odd ends of things...esp all the fancy flours I buy.

I tend to overmake quantities too, so have often got random bags of crumble mix, and cheesecake biscuit base crumbs in the freezer, so i haul them all out and use them up!!

My best one ever was a Chocolate Pear crumble...pears in the bottom, they were very ripe so no precooking required, a squoosh of pear liqueur that had been hanging about, some sugar and then a collection of crumble bags from the freezer, plus some bashed chocolate digestive crumbs, choc chips and a good couple of tbs of cocoa in the crumble mix.

Chasingsquirrels · 28/08/2021 11:21

Ohh I love chocolate pear crumble too!

PostMenPatWithACat · 28/08/2021 11:24

I can spread with one hand using room temp butter. Put something on the breadboard like the butter dish lid so the toast abuts it and it is anchored. Then spread away from you. Not perfect. I have injured my left hand though so that's a blessing.

AlbertBridge · 28/08/2021 11:31

Food processor. Or just smash up some shortbread and eat with stewed fruit.

EsmeNoteSpelling · 28/08/2021 12:31

@WeAreTheHeroes

180g oats, 60g ground almonds or mix of ground almonds and crushed biscuits, 100g sugar, 100g melted butter. You can vary the sugar, e.g. use brown sugar, muscovado, etc for flavour. Add cinnamon if you like.
I’m ready! Thanks @WeAreTheHeroes
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EsmeNoteSpelling · 28/08/2021 12:32

@PostMenPatWithACat That sounds good. I have thrown countless noise down my front this week trying and failing to butter bread but I will keep trying! Toast is too important to miss. Hope you mend well soon

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WeAreTheHeroes · 28/08/2021 12:32

Grin hope you satisfy that craving!

fluffiphlox · 28/08/2021 13:05

Personally I use the K beater thing on the Kenwood but I don’t think I could assemble it with one hand. So I think you have to use one hand and take twice as long.

TheSpottedZebra · 28/08/2021 18:18

Frozen butter, shoved through the grater attachment of the processor makes great and easy crumble. Then just lightly mix with the other ingredients and you're done!

Also works for scones.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 28/08/2021 18:25

Triple the recipe when you make it in the processor then bag the excess into 2 portions and freeze it.

I get random crumble cravings once autumn hits so when blackberry season is upon us I pick zillions, cook them up with Bradley apples and plums into a compote. Eat some of that with whipped cream there and then and freeze the rest.

When I get a crumble craving I just tip a bag of compote into an oven dish, tip a bag of pre-prepped crumble mix on the top and into the oven.

Instant craving fix.

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