Sorry totally took an unexpected one week breather from life, similar to the breather from the gym that I’ve taken; not sure when that one is ending though. Life is starting again today, that’s happening. I’m sure the unwillingness to do much is stemming from the fact I 100% have to get an injection next week; when I have to get them life seems to get put on hold and I become completely lethargic with refusal to do anything hard. If anyone knows good ways to overcome phobias that would be simply amazing!
I made this last week and it has sat on my laptop pretty much finished apart from the recipe down at the bottom. Pretty darn lazy I think.
Crumble was made for living in the moment, crumble and shots. Can they be combined? I think I’ll have to try. This crumble is delicious and jammy. Mega comfort food that tastes slightly more grown-up than your standard home-grown apple crumble because of the brandy. Have a shot of brandy on the side; live a little. Does anyone do shots of brandy? Is that a nanna thing?
Adapted from Jamie Olivers Great Britain cookbook
Ingredients
6 Medium Apples Peeled, cored and sliced into 10 (use a mix of apples)
100 grams of brown sugar
giant slug of brandy
1 nutmeg for grating
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
100 grams of Raspberries
Juice of one Orange
Crumble Topping
75 grams of Butter, chilled and cut into small cubes
100 grams of Plain Flour
100g of Demera Sugar
Zest of one Orange (perhaps the one you juiced before; zest it first though)
How-to-make-this:
Pre-heat oven to 180C/350F.
Cut each Apple roughly into about 10 pieces; they should be slightly larger than bite-size. Put the pieces into a large heavy bottomed pan over a medium heat. Add the brown sugar and cinnamon, grate over some nutmeg and add a good swig of brandy. Like a lot of brandy, you are making the sauce with this stuff!
Cover with lid and stew for 5 minutes, or until fruit has started to soften. Remove lid and cook for another 5 minutes or so, until the sauce has thickened up a bit. When it’s good simply stir in the raspberries (or any soft berries of your liking; Jamie used blackberries) and take off the heat.
In a clean bowl, make your crumble topping by quickly rubbing the butter into the flour and sugar until you have fine crumbs – you can do this in a food processor, but I think it tastes better by hand – clean hand that is. Grate zest over and mix in carefully and set aside.
Pour the stewed fruit into an oven-proof dish and add the orange juice over the top, sprinkle over the crumble topping and put in hot oven for 50 minutes. Or until topping is lovely and golden. The smell that will fill your house is amazing. Serve warm with a good scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.
The Little Cookbook 