Rhubarb Krummel Kucken

Krummel Kucken is a German recipe, which my mum & grandma frequently made for dessert and I always remember it being particularly yummy. I thought I might find the recipe online but they were all rather complicated, so in the end I searched out my grandma's old recipe book and found it - a much simpler recipe, so here goes...

Ingredients:

250g butter

500g self raising flour

200g sugar

400g rhubarb

1/4 tsp vanilla essence

1 egg, beaten

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. With your fingers, rub the margarine into the flour until it resembles bread crumbs.
3. Add sugar & mix in well.
4. Add the beaten egg and vanilla essence and mix in well - but don't press together too much - it should resemble crumble topping at this stage.
5. Chop the rhubarb into inch long sections.
6. Place just over half of the crumble mix into the bottom of a large baking tray (I used my grill pan) and compact into the bottom of the tin.
7. On top lay the rhubarb and sprinkle the rest of the crumble on top (not compressing this time).
8. Bake in the oven for 40-45 mins or until golden brown on top.

Serve warm or cold with cream, custard or ice cream.

NB Can also make with halved apricots or plums placed skin down or berries (gooseberries are particularly tasty) or any other fruit for that matter, but the bitter/sour fruits ie rhubarb & gooseberries seem to make the nicest krummel kucken.

Summer Fruit Crumble

Sorry just realised this is an awful photo!

Ingredients:

Topping:
100g flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

50g butter

3 tbsp demarara sugar

Fruit filling:

100g frozen summer fruits mix

1tsp corn flour

2tsp sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

1. Preheat oven to Gas Mark 5 or 190C.
2. Place the frozen fruits into the bottom of an ovenproof bowl.
3. Sprinkle over the fruit the cornflour, sugar and vanilla essence.
4. In another bowl, place all the ingredients for the topping and using your fingers, rub all ingredients together.
5. Sprinkle the topping over the fruit.
6. Bake in the oven for approximately 30-40 minutes or until the topping is golden brown and the fruit is bubbling away underneath.

Apple and Blackberry Crumble

Waiting to be cooked...

Ingredients:

FRUIT:

3 large Bramley apples

4 handfuls of blackberries

4 tbsps caster sugar

2 tbsps cinnamon

CRUMBLE:

100g butter

100g flour

100g light brown sugar

140g oats

1 tbsp cinnamon

1 tbsp golden syrup

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to Gas 5 or 190C.
2. Peel, core and slice the apples.
3. Layer the sliced apples, handful of blackberries, 1 tbsp sugar and 1 tbsp cinnamon until you have used all the apple and blackberries.
4. Mix all the crumble ingredients together in a bowl and sprinkle over the layered fruit.
5. Bake in oven for 35-40 minutes until the juices bubble up.
6. Allow to cool slightly and serve with custard, cream or ice cream.

ENJOY :)

...ready to eat Apple and Blackberry Crumble