Tuesday 13 October 2015

Trialling a new dry crumble mix

Welcome to Ali via here. Thanks for your address Julia, I will post it as soon as possible. Not much to read but some nice pictures and ideas!

I decided to make this mix from here, which is dry and can be stored in your cupboard:
I melted the required tablespoons of butter (2 tablespoons per 3/4 of a cupful) to make us 4 small crumbles. In the bottom are 5 or 6 very large blackberries, 1 small apple and 1 small pear:
Each dish had 1 tablespoon of our own damson brandy spooned over the fruit. I used 1 1/2 cupfuls of dry mix, so 4 tablespoons of butter were mixed in and sprinkled on top:
Once baked they looked like this:
We had the first 2 with custard and the last 2 with evaporated milk. The crumble stayed a little dry and seperate but was fine if you don't have too sweet a tooth. It might have been that I didn't fully incorporate the butter. However, it tasted nice.

8 comments:

  1. I like the idea of putting it in Ramekins, at least that way you don't eat too much. Do you know if it is safe to put Ramekins in the freezer ? Thanks for sharing the crumble recipe, I shall pop over and have a look at that blog.

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    1. My ramekins are Le Creuset and they were fine, guess it depends. I did thaw them first though!

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  2. That's a good idea as I'm using precious freezer space for a box of crumble mix

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    1. I did think though that it needs more fat than recommended but nice as is other than that.

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  3. Thankyou so much for linking to my blog. The crumble mix is meant to be a little dry. That's why it's called a " crumble ". A little more butter can be added and more sugar can be added when making up the dry mix. I usually make the crumble with cooked apple and they can be quite sweet.

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    1. Thanks, not a criticism, just personal taste. We always put oats in our crumbles so it was nice to find this recipe.

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  4. I love crumble at any time, but especially in the autumn! xx

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  5. I like the look of this recipe. I have happily kept individual pyrex ramekins in my freezer. Thanks for sharing this one x

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