Apple Crumble
Britain's wartime pudding, born of rationing — tart apples softened with sugar and cinnamon under a buttery, golden crumble of flour, oats and demerara. Rubbing the butter in roughly, leaving lumps, gives a crisp, craggy top.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 kg cooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 60 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 175 g plain flour
- 50 g rolled oats
- 125 g cold butter, cubed
- 100 g demerara sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 500 ml hot custard, to serve
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 3058 kcal · P 38.4g · C 506.2g · F 110.1g
Estimated from 10 of 10 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Heat the oven to 190°C (170°C fan).
- 2Toss the apples with the caster sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice and spread them in a 2 litre baking dish.
- 3Rub the butter into the flour and salt with your fingertips until the mixture looks like rough breadcrumbs with some pea-sized lumps.
- 4Stir in the oats and demerara sugar.
- 5Scatter the crumble loosely over the apples without pressing it down; a packed topping turns stodgy.
- 6Bake for 40–45 minutes, until the top is golden and crisp and the fruit bubbles up at the edges.
- 7Rest for 10 minutes and serve warm with the hot custard.
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Questions and answers
How long does Apple Crumble take to make?
About 65 minutes: 20 min prep and 45 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Apple Crumble?
10 ingredients: cooking apples, caster sugar, ground cinnamon, lemon juice, plain flour, rolled oats, cold butter, demerara sugar, salt, hot custard.
How many servings does this Apple Crumble recipe make?
6 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Apple Crumble?
About 510 kcal, with 6.4 g protein, 84.4 g carbohydrate and 18.3 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Apple Crumble recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Apple Crumble?
Apple Crumble comes from British cuisine.
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