APPLE & BLACKBERRY CRUMBLE

INGREDIENTS

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Crumble topping

325g plain flour

175g butter, cut into small dice

100g soft light brown sugar

80g granulated sugar

100g oats

120g flaked almonds

2g salt

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Filling

500g cooking apples, peeled and cut into 2cm rough dice

300g blackberries

50g butter

30g lemon juice

100ml apple juice

100g caster sugar

Small pinch of salt

¼ cinnamon stick

1 vanilla bean, split in half with the seeds scraped out

20ml vanilla essence

Splash of Calvados

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Custard

300ml milk

100ml double cream

6 egg yolks

100g sugar

1g salt

10ml vanilla extract

Method

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Crumble topping

Mix the flour, salt and sugar together, then add the butter and mix with your fingertips until crumb like. Add the oats and sliced almonds, then spread the mix onto trays and bake in a 180c for about 10 minutes until the crumble mix is golden in colour, then leave to cool.

Break the crumble into pieces and store in airtight container for later.

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Filling

Melt the butter in a saucepan and then add the apples, currants, sugar, apple juice, Calvados and spices, cooking until slightly soft and the liquid has reduced to nothing. If the apples are cooked before the juice has reduced, then drain off the apples and reduce the juice separately, then add back the juice to the apples once its reduced and place in the fridge to cool.

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Custard

Whisk the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla seeds together. Mix the liquids together and place onto the stove with the vanilla pod, bringing to a simmer.

Place over the egg yolks, mix and then cook out to 85c, stirring all the time and pass through a fine sieve to cool.

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Assembly

Place the apple blackberry mix into a pan to simmer. Place into an oven proof dish, cover with the crumble mix and bake at 200c for ten minutes, serve with the warm custard.

 

APPLE & BLACKBERRY CRUMBLE

INGREDIENTS

   +   
Crumble topping

325g plain flour

175g butter, cut into small dice

100g soft light brown sugar

80g granulated sugar

100g oats

120g flaked almonds

2g salt

   +   
Filling

500g cooking apples, peeled and cut into 2cm rough dice

300g blackberries

50g butter

30g lemon juice

100ml apple juice

100g caster sugar

Small pinch of salt

¼ cinnamon stick

1 vanilla bean, split in half with the seeds scraped out

20ml vanilla essence

Splash of Calvados

   +   
Custard

300ml milk

100ml double cream

6 egg yolks

100g sugar

1g salt

10ml vanilla extract

Method

   +   
Crumble topping

Mix the flour, salt and sugar together, then add the butter and mix with your fingertips until crumb like. Add the oats and sliced almonds, then spread the mix onto trays and bake in a 180c for about 10 minutes until the crumble mix is golden in colour, then leave to cool.

Break the crumble into pieces and store in airtight container for later.

   +   
Filling

Melt the butter in a saucepan and then add the apples, currants, sugar, apple juice, Calvados and spices, cooking until slightly soft and the liquid has reduced to nothing. If the apples are cooked before the juice has reduced, then drain off the apples and reduce the juice separately, then add back the juice to the apples once its reduced and place in the fridge to cool.

   +   
Custard

Whisk the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla seeds together. Mix the liquids together and place onto the stove with the vanilla pod, bringing to a simmer.

Place over the egg yolks, mix and then cook out to 85c, stirring all the time and pass through a fine sieve to cool.

   +   
Assembly

Place the apple blackberry mix into a pan to simmer. Place into an oven proof dish, cover with the crumble mix and bake at 200c for ten minutes, serve with the warm custard.

 

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