Apple Crumble

The other day my daughter came home and said she was watching a movie about world war 2. She said people back then could not bake a proper cake because of poverty, so they baked a “crumble”. So, mum what is that? She asked. It looked pretty well! She said.

O my dear, I know very well crumble. I never baked one for my kids so now it’s time. It would be an extremely simple task, and very tasty too.

We need:

Crumble

apple crumble

225g plain flour

90g sugar

1 pinch salt

115g butter

1 pinch cinnamon

Filling

100g sugar

100ml water

6 large apples

Some cloves

Some lemon juice

Directions

Preheat your oven at 200 C.

Shift flour sugar salt and cinnamon into a bowl. Cut the butter into chunks and rub it into flour. Mix with your hands until you get a mixture that looks like breadcrumbs. Set aside.

Peal and chunk the apples. (I do not peel them fore I like the peel too and most vitamins are there!)

Boil water and sugar, drop in the apple chunks and 3-4 cloves. Simmer for a couple of minutes. Add some lemon juice.

Spoon the mixture into one large ovenproof dish. Sprinkle the crumble topping over the apples, pilling it high in the middle of the dish and leaving space at the edge.

Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 min. Apples must be cooked and bubbling and the crumble golden on top.

If you want to remake a war movie scene with a poor cake as my daughter curious was about, serve like that. But my serve idea was : “serve with custard!”    or creme fresh