Sunday, October 26, 2008
Apple and Custard Crumble
New house has an old apple tree. The old owners told us it was a bramley apple tree, though my neighbour who is a keen gardener thinks its not. Whatever the type of apple tree it is, it has provided us with a glut of cooking apples and I feel a huge number of recipes being created with the apple theme.
I made up this recipe last night and tried it out on some friends who rather liked it. The measurements are rather crude and rely on guess work, but the recipe goes something like this:
Ingredients for Apple Custard Filling
4 medium to small cooking apples
4 dessert spoons of sugar
2 dessert spoons of sultanas
Juice of half a lemon
1 knob of butter
1/2 teaspoon of ground mixed spice
1 teaspoon of soft brown sugar
1 packet of instant custard mix, made up following instructions on the back of the packet
Ingredients for Crumble
50g of cold butter
4 tablespoons of plain flour
2 table spoons of granulated sugar
1 sachet of Quaker Instant Oats
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
Method
Peel, core and chop up the apples and place into a saucepan with a knob of butter, lemon juice, sugar, sultanas and spices. Cook until the apples has softened and the filling has thickened slightly. Once the the filling is ready, spoon into a shallow dish.
Make up the custard and pour over the apples.
Make the crumble filling by adding all the dry except the oats ingredients in a bowl and then rubbing in the the butter. Then add the oats and spinkle crumble mix over the apple and custard filling. Bake at Gas Mark 6 until the crumble is golden and cooked.
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