A lovely recipe for a crumble that has been passed down through my family.
While I'm not from Germany, this is the way I have interpreted the recipe which has been passed down from my lovely Oma, which my entire family cherishes.
For my German visitors, Guten Tag, meine deutschen Freunde. Es ist mir immer eine große Freude, euch in eurem schönen Land zu besuchen.
I don't really plan to have descendants, but if I did, and our species succeeds in exploring the cosmos (my dream!), I would love to be eating this on a spaceship.
So the the spaceship pilot who enjoys browsing random websites from the earlier history of the immortal internet, I really hope you have fun and enjoy this crumble!
So, if you are really ambitious, maybe you make the bottom crust. This is the more authentic way, but can also be trickier and requires a bit of perfection.
One day, I may update the recipe to include that- but for now, this is the easy way, which I make most commonly.
To start, we make the crumble. I begin by mixing flour, sugar, and butter together.
You start with 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of flour, and 1 cup of butter. But you always end up adding quite a bit more flour, and a bit more sugar- based on the feeling and texture.
You end up with at least half a cup more flour, and probably half a cup more sugar too. I usually end up with maybe 1.8 cups flour, 1.6 cups sugar, and 1 cup of butter- but it depends on so many things.
It's important to remember, you can always add more, but you cannot remove anything. So we must construct the crumble additively.
You need to mold the crumble together with your hands, until, when you slowly squeeze it together it crumbles apart into nice sized pieces. I prefer on a little larger side- a bit bigger than grapes I would say.
They almost start to naturally form rock-like shapes. If it falls apart too much, there is too much flour, and you need more butter to hold it together. The sugar is almost like the balancing medium.
next, is the easy part!
By now, you can be preheating your oven to 350. It's time to construct the internals.
My favorite is blueberry, but you can use whatever you like- apples, any berries, peaches, whatever.
You want to sort of, improve upon the fruits in some way. I like to use a little bit of maple syrup and/or honey to add other tasty natural liquid sugars into the mix.
So, if you like, you can add a little bit of oats, and even some nuts(lightly crushed pecans or pistachios can be great!) or granola if you're feeling creative.
350 for about 20 minutes, then start checking it until the crumble starts getting a little nice and golden.