Apple and Banana Crunch

Name: Apple and Banana Crunch
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 4 oz (100 g) butter or margarine; 5 oz (150 g) plain flour; 8 oz (225 g) soft brown sugar; 3–4 medium-size bananas; 1½ lb (675 g) cooking apples; 3 oz (75 g) caster sugar; juice of 1 lemon; 3 oz (75 g) walnut pieces; 1 teaspoon (5 ml spoon) ground cinnamon

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sweet Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1985

About

A good apple crumble is both a useful and extremely popular family pudding, but if badly made it can have an uncooked, stodgy taste and texture. This dish is like a crumble, but the topping has chopped walnuts in it, making it more crunchy, and I think better, than the conventional crumble.

Ingredients

For the filling

1½ lb (675 g) cooking apples
3–4 medium-size bananas

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven. Peel and core the apples, and cut into smallish chunks. Peel the bananas and slice. Mix the apple and banana together in a bowl with the lemon juice and caster sugar and then spread in a rectangular or round ovenproof dish, about 2–3 pints (1.2–1.8 litres) in capacity.

To make the topping, gently melt the butter or margarine. Put the other ingredients in a bowl and sti