Hedgerow Crumble
This delicious dessert is made from fruits you can easily forage while out on a walk, hence the name Hedgerow Crumble!
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 800.31kcal
Ingredients
For the fruit filling
- 750 g apples
- 250 g blackberries
- 250 g sloes, bullaces or damsons
- 100 g elderberries
- 2 teaspoon cornflour
- 150 g caster sugar
For the crumble top
- 100 g plain flour
- 100 g oatmeal
- 150 g butter chilled and cut into cubes
- 100 g demerera sugar
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 190 C/375 F/gas 5.
- Peel, quarter and core the apples, then thinly slice them into a large mixing bowl.
- Stone the bullaces and remove the elderberries from the stems. Add these to the apple slices along with the blackberries and mix together.
- Mix the cornflour with the caster sugar.
- Layer the fruit in an oven dish and sprinkle with the cornflour and sugar mixture.
- In the meantime, add the flour and salt to a mixing bowl, add the cubes of butter and rub the mixture together until it resembles breadcrumbs (or pulse in a food processor).
- Once it is making pea sized clumps, add in the demerera sugar.
- Spoon the crumble mixture in an even layer over the top of the fruit.
- Bake for 45 minutes until the crumble topping is golden brown and crisp, and the fruit is soft and their juices bubbling.
- Take the crumble out of the oven and let it rest. Serve warm.
Nutrition
Calories: 800.31kcal | Carbohydrates: 129.46g | Protein: 5.54g | Fat: 31.76g | Saturated Fat: 6.48g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8.44g | Monounsaturated Fat: 15.02g | Sodium: 359.49mg | Potassium: 530.53mg | Fiber: 11.55g | Sugar: 91.32g | Vitamin A: 1942IU | Vitamin C: 36.76mg | Calcium: 60.15mg | Iron: 2.52mg