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Phil Vickery's Bramley Apple Crumble

By Bramley Apple Information Service
"Love crumble! It’s so easy to make. The big, big rule is never add the sugar to the crumble until the butter is rubbed into the flour. The reason is that the sugar and butter will cream; that means mix together, a bit…
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Ingredients

8 total
  • 400 g of caster sugar
  • 4 tablespoons of olive oil
  • 1 large of lemon, the zest and juice of
  • 115 g of cold unsalted butter
  • 25 g of porridge oats
  • 4 large of bramley cooking apples
  • 2 pinches of ground cinnamon
  • 225 g of plain flour

Method

5 steps

  1. Step 1

    Peel and core the apples, then cut into large chunks.

  2. Step 2

    Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the lemon zest and juice, 175g sugar, cinnamon and then add the apples. Cook for 5 minutes to soften slightly.

  3. Step 3

    Tip into a large baking dish say 20cm square, roughly. Place the cold butter and flour into a food processor and blitz until you have fine breadcrumbs.

  4. Step 4

    Tip into a bowl and stir through the sugar, carefully. Spoon over the top of the stewed apples and sprinkle over the oats. Bake in the pre heated oven for 30 - 40 minutes or until well browned.

  5. Step 5

    Serve with custard and, or ice cream.