Ingredients
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4 -5 tart apples
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3 tablespoons lemon juice
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1/2 cup sugar
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1/2 cup raisins
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1 dash nutmeg
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1 dash cinnamon (or any other spice you love!)
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2/3 cup flour
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3/4 cup brown sugar
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1 pinch salt
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1 teaspoon cinnamon
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1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
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5 tablespoons butter
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2 tablespoons ice water
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4 -5 pears (if using other mixed fruits instead, just be sure to have about 4 lbs total)
Instructions
- Prepare fruit (peel, pit, whatever it takes). If large, cut into 1/4 thick slices.
- Toss in a bowl with lemon juice, sugar and raisins and a bit of nutmeg and cinnamon (I usually add allspice because I love it).
- Combine the flour, sugar, salt and spices.
- Cut in the butter and mix till mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. There should be no big chunks of butter left. (I usually do this with my hands - don't have a food processor).
- Sprinkle in the ice water, mix till the crumble mixture holds together and forms little clumps.
- Add the rolled oats and mix. If the mixture seems sticky, add more oats.
- Spread fruit evenly in a large glass or ceramic baking dish.
- Scatter topping evenly over the fruit, leaving some of it in larger chunks and some in fine crumbles.
- Bake the Crumble at 375 for about 40-45 minutes or until the top is crisp and brown and the juice is bubbling up around the edges.
- Serve it hot or warm, with ice cream, whipped cream, or all by itself.