Apple and blackberry crumble

Name: Apple and blackberry crumble
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz) blackberries; ¼ tsp ground cinnamon; 60 g (2 ¼ oz) traditional rolled oats or spelt flakes; 85 g (3 oz) wholemeal wheat or spelt flour; 30 g (1 oz) white sugar; handful of slivered almonds; 30 g (1 oz) butter; butter, for greasing; flour, for dusting; 50 g (1¾ oz) raw (demerara) sugar; 80 g (2¾ oz) butter, at room temperature; pinch of sea salt; 300 g (10½ oz) red apples (e.g. cox or boskoop, or a combination of the two), cubed

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

My British friend Pete Brown, who recently published a book about the uniqueness of British food, says that crumble is typically British because it’s warm and comforting, a feeling that the British look to create with their iconic dishes. It’s also incredibly easy to prepare and it’s quite subdued but silently proud. It is Britain in a nutshell, or rather, in a ceramic dish.