Swiss Cherry Crumble

Name: Swiss Cherry Crumble
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2-3 tablespoons demerara sugar; 125 g (4 oz) unsalted butter, chilled and diced; 500 g (1 lb) fresh or bottled morello cherries, stoned; 25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter; 1 teaspoon cornflour; 500 g (1 lb) fresh or bottled morello cherries, stoned; 2 tablespoons kirschwasser; 1 teaspoon caster sugar; 6 heaped tablespoons plain flour

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

I devised the next recipe a few years ago when staying in a friend’s chalet in the Swiss alps. We would go down to the valley to shop, and, as it was early July, we feasted on cherries.

Ingredients

Crumble

6 heaped tablespoons plain flour
125 g (4 oz) unsalted butter

Dessert
July

Method

Rub the flour and butter together until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Stir in the muesli and the sugar.

Butter an ovenproof dish, and put in the fruit. Mix the cornflour and sugar, and sprinkle over the fruit. Spoon the crumble over the top, except for a small hole in the middle, which you keep open with a rolled paper tube. Bake the crumble for