Apple Crumble

Which came first, the apple pie or the apple crumble?

Did someone forget to put the water in the pastry for an apple pie, or did they spill water into the crumble?

I had been making apple crumble the last 20 years and never got tired of it ! Easy and delicious!

Ingredients:
Filling:
10 pcs green apples - peeled, cored and cut into slices
50 gm sugar
450 gm raisins, soaked in hot water ,then drained
2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt

Crust:
300gm superfine flour,sifted
150 gm salted butter

Crumble:
100 gm Flour
100 gm coarse brown sugar
100 gm butter
Combine and rub in til they resemble crumbls.

Lets start !

Cook the filling first.
Put all the apples and sugar in a pot and cook over medium heat , stirring all the time. do not add water.

Add the raisins and continue to stir till apples are soft.

Add in the ground cinnamon and salt. Leave filling aside.

For the crust: Mix flour and butter

Cut the butter in small pieces till they resemble small crumbs. Or rub in the butter with your fingertips lightly.

Add a little water and combine the crumbs together to form a dough. DO NOT knead the dough or overwork it - the more you handle it , the harder your pastry becomes! Cover dough and leave it to rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Roll out the dough between 2 piecs of plastic sheets. This is will make it much easier for you to transfer it to the pan later.

Remove the top plastic sheet and overturn the rolled out dough over the pan. Easy isn't it? cut away the excess dough.

Prick it with a fork and bake it blind for 15 min. at 180C. No , don't blind-fold it :)
(To bake it blind is to bake without any filling )

Remove the crust from oven and fill it with the apple filling and then the crumble.

Return to the oven and bake at 180C for another 40 minutes.

Serve warm or chilled , with or without a scoop of vanilla ice cream!