Red Slump

Name: Red Slump
Ingredients: 4–5 tablespoons water or suitable liqueur (crème de cassis, crème de mûre or an orange liqueur); 1 kg red summer fruits; 75 g unsalted butter; milk to bind; 30 g caster sugar; 15 g ground almonds; 120 g self-raising flour; 150 g (10 tablespoons) sugar, or to taste

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How To Eat

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

To make enough red slump for 6 (though it would stretch to 8 – it’s just I hate stretching), you need:

Ingredients

For the Fruit

1 kg red summer fruits
150 g (10 tablespoons) sugar

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Put the fruit in a dish – I use one of those oval old-fashioned cream stoneware bowls, but any pie or baking dish that has a capacity of about 3 litres should do. Sprinkle the fruit with the sugar. How much depends on the sweetness of the fruit itself, obviously enough. Start with about 6–8 tablespoons