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As now is the time for fresh picked cooking apples, I had picked a nice bag of Bramleys from one of my clients garden. As I wanted to freeze these down, I decided at the time to do an apple crumble. Here is the ingredients that you will need,

Some cooking apples
Lemon
6 oz plain flour
3 oz butter
2 oz sugar
Some corn flakes



Peel and core the apples then slice. To avoid discolouration of the apples squeeze a lemon into a saucepan of water and drop your sliced apples into that. I always par stew any hard fruit before making the crumble but this is not necessary.

To stew - Empty and drain your sliced apples, throw into a saucpan with a bit of sugar, the amount of sugar depends on the sharpness of the fruit. Add a tablespoon of water bring to boil and simmer for about ten minutes.



Whilst this is going on you can make your crumble mix. I cheat on this as I use the processor for the mixing. Add your flour and butter and mix to a fine crumb. Stir in the couple of ounces of sugar.



Because I make a fine crumb I then add a good handful of corn flakes to give it a 'crunchie' taste, and stir this in by hand.




Layer your stewed fruit into a baking dish and and then top with the crumble mix. Bake in an over at 200C or gas Mark 4 for about 30 mins. If your fruit has not been par steewed cookng time should be about 40 mins.





An here is the completed product. An oops here as I forgot about it and gave it ten minutes to long . Made the crumble more biscuity, but nothing to much that a nice drop of custard wouldn't cure. Enjoy

astasinim

Looks tasty props. I like to use brown sugar for the crumble, to add a bit of a treacly flavour. Ive got 4lb of apples in the freezer (fresh from the orchard) waiting to be made into crumble, plus a couple of jars of sauce. Do you think the apples will freeze ok?

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Propagator

^ For freezing I usually prepare them as for stewing, but dont add sugar. Blanche for about a minute, drain and plunge into ice cold water. Drain and sort in small containers and freeze.

Yep could have used brown sugar

astasinim

I did the same as you said above, but added a little sugar to the freezer container. Hope it doesnt affect them. Oh well i`ll see when i make the next crumble.

daveboy

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Alcoholic apple crumble

astasinim

Wehey, this could be the start of something.

Loombucket

Just like me Mother used to make. Can't green you, for some reason, will catch up later.

Thai Pom

Those picrtures bring back memories, good ones that is.

patsycat

I've never tried it with cornflakes . will do next time.

Jet Gorgon

Yummy. Thanks, Props. I usually use oatmeal flakes with brown sugar and butter for my topping, but will try yours.

ItsRobsLife

Somebody mention apple crumble...? With custard? Bloody marvellous!

Interesting idea to add cornflakes, never tried that before, but it's got my stomach rumbling.

Propagator

Th cornflakesjust giveitthat extra crunch on the crumble. Thanks forall the good feed back

alphagirl

That looks very very yummy! I want some please