REAL appple crumble recipes? I have been warned not to cheat!!

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DD1 has stopped eating again. It's been nearly three weeks since she ate a decent meal so we are getting a bit desperate now.

One of our ways to get her to eat is to allow her to choose the family meal and help cook it so out come the recipe books. She has her own books but has a crush on preferance for Jamie Oliver.

She has chosen Pork kebabs with corn on the cobs for supper tonight from the Mistary of Food book. But neither of the books I have have any apple crumble recipes in, which according to dd1 is her favourite and she is very upset with Jamie for not having it in his books .

She says I will just have to make one. A REAL one. I have been informed that REAL apple crumbles are not made by "putting frozen apple in a dish and emptying a packet on the top and then burning it in the oven"

So how do you make apple crumble if you don't cheat?

a jamie recipe even!

Oooh yes it will thank you! I didn't even know he had a website!

He can go back to being her hero again now. She is adamant that she will marry him when she is old enough. I have told that he is already married and she says she will share him

Core and slice some apples and add water and sugar. Stew in saucepan for a few minutes until soft.

Add flour to a basin, add sugar, add butter or margerine, rub the mixture together with your hands until resembling breadcrumbs. Put stewed apple into pie dish. Tip four misture on to the top. Sprinkle some demerara sugar on nthe top. Pop in the oven until brown on top.

Sorry no quantities or times - I rely on guesswork and it usually turns out ok.

DS loves apple crumble and here's how I make it.
(The method for stewed apple is based on Delia.)
This makes enough to fill a 12'' x 10'' baking dish so provides our pudding for 2 - 3 days.
Put some water and about 4 oz sugar into a suacepan and heat. Add 3 sliced cooking apples and stew until soft (keep stirring). Remove from heat to cool slightly whilst you make the crumble. Once cooled, if required, add more sugar to your taste.
For crumble, rub together 10 oz plain flour with 4 or 5 oz of butter or marg until it looks like breadcrumbs. Add 2-3 oz of granulated or demerara sugar then sprinkle over stewed apple mixture in dish.
Bake at 200C for about 20-25 min or until brown on top.
HTH

I like to add a bit of nutmeg or cinnamon into my apple crumble mix too..
Adding a little extra sugar over the top of the crumble helps with the caramelisation and crunchiness.

another version for you:

i don't precook fruit when i do crumble, just chop and sprinkle sugar over - a tbsp or so for already sweet fruit like plums, 3 or 4 for rhubarb or cooking apples. cooking apples also get a sprinkle of water.

for a decent sized crumble for 4-6 i use 100g plain flour, 100g ground almonds, 75g butter rubbed together plus 75g granulated sugar. pile it on the top, don't worry about it dropping down in the fruit or being uneven on the top.

gas 5 for about 45 minutes, you know when it's ready cos the juices all bubble up around the edges and go all caramelly.

mmm we're having crumble tonight too

I like to use a mixture of plain flour, oats and ground almonds for the crumble mix so 75g of each, plus 75g sugar and the butter can be cut down to 50g.
Rub flour and butter together, as above, to a 'crumby' texture. Mix the almonds, oats and sugar and stir these into the crumbs. Add a spinkle of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg or allspice. The topping should be enough to cover a crumble for four people (approx 450g apples) and cuts down the fat/sugar a little.
Cooking times as above.

oh and for mine i'd say 3 large cooking apples chopped.

Spooky cross post on the almonds there, puppydetox!