Wednesday, November 03, 2010

'Messert'

Off to dinner over at mum's house tonight and I said I'd make dessert or as our nephew Loch used to say 'messert'! 


After trawling through the recipes I have at hand on my faithful little white laptop and thinking about the ingredients here in the cupboard/fridge - who wants to go to the market unnecessarily after all - I decided on a crumble! Always a favourite with H'o'M... regularly asked for and rarely produced ;-)


I have loads of apples here - have I told you of my obsession with apples? - while the last time we were at the farm we came home with a bag of rhubarb that I have only just remembered. 
With such amazing ingredients at hand, clearly it'll be an apple/rhubarb crumble tonight! 


This is the crumble recipe I have decided to use tonight



  • 1 bunch rhubarb, cut into 2cm pieces
  • 3 Pink Lady apples, peeled, cored and sliced
  • 2 tablespoons caster sugar
  • finely grated rind and juice of 1 orange

  • 3/4 cup self-raising flour, sifted
  • 3/4 cup homemade granola - see here for recipe
  • 100g butter, chilled, cubed
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup pecans, roughly chopped

  • A few changes are being made to the recipe that I originally looked at. It asked for Granny Smith apples but as I only ever buy Pink Lady apples, that is all there is to use. I know most baking asks for Granny Smiths as they keep their shape so well when baking, but I'm happy with the taste of Pink Lady and less defined shapes!
  • I also swapped the muesli dictated for my own homemade granola and finally ... just because I'm me... I definitely won't be using 100g of butter! I'll add just what feels comfortable at the time. 


Now that I'm reading it properly too, there is a slight issue with making this or in fact any sort of crumble tonight at all ... I have no brown sugar left! Mmmmm!? 
I do have plenty of raw caster sugar though, and seeing as that is golden and not white, I'll just use that and see how it all turns out!

1 comment:

trash said...

We must be related! I made crumble last night - 'Each peach, pear plum' but without the peaches.