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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #25 on: 12 October, 2013, 12:15:12 pm »
We'll be putting elderberries in crumbles on a much more regular basis having had a very successful experiment last weekend.

We've also been converted to baking the crumble a bit before shovelling it over the fruit. Blame Hugh for that.

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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #26 on: 12 October, 2013, 04:39:40 pm »
Peeps, do you remove the pips from your blackberries, or do you nom tout?
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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #27 on: 12 October, 2013, 05:46:19 pm »
Only occasionally from between my teeth after consumption. Life is too short for de-pipping blackberries.

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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #28 on: 13 October, 2013, 06:23:57 pm »
Peeps, do you remove the pips from your blackberries, or do you nom tout?
:o Remove the pips from blackberries? How much free time do you think I have?  :o
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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #29 on: 13 October, 2013, 06:58:54 pm »
How long does it take to pass the blackberries through a muslim?
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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #30 on: 13 October, 2013, 07:18:28 pm »
Depends on whole bowel transit time...

Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #31 on: 17 October, 2013, 02:41:20 pm »
Peeps, do you remove the pips from your blackberries, or do you nom tout?
:o Remove the pips from blackberries? How much free time do you think I have?  :o
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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #32 on: 17 October, 2013, 07:38:17 pm »
I got a text from the EldestCub.  "Really Sad" was all it said....

Eventually managed to track down the source of his sadness.  The apple crumble that was the product of his second school cookery lesson didn't survive the journey back to his dad's this evening.  Nor did the dish it was in.

Fortunately I could remember the exact quantities from when I got the ingredients ready at 6am today.  His dad has said he can make it for one of their meals over the weekend.  So I have texted EC the Official School Recipe, together with a very clear message that a random cheap pyrex oven dish (bought on Lancaster market iirc, and that has been around since before he was born) really isn't worth fretting over.

Hopefully he's less sad now!

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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #33 on: 17 October, 2013, 08:19:47 pm »
A bit of broken glass shouldn't stop him eating an apple crumble.

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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #34 on: 17 October, 2013, 09:37:50 pm »
How long does it take to pass the blackberries through a muslim?
Well, not long, depending how hard you press, but I want blackberries, not blackberry mush.
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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #35 on: 17 October, 2013, 10:31:52 pm »
Depends on whole bowel transit time...
Surely you know the normal range of values.  ;D
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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #36 on: 17 October, 2013, 11:00:27 pm »
It ends up mushy anyway, dunnit?  Ok, I'll invent a blackberry de-pipping machine that doesn't mush.  But only after I've finished my automatic grape peeler.

The blackberries from my, erm, "nature reserve" seemed extra pippy this year.
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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #37 on: 22 October, 2013, 09:57:42 pm »
The EldestCub did a spot of practising...

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The Crumble Thread - No energy for a full on flan.
« Reply #38 on: 27 November, 2013, 01:24:31 pm »
Can we please rename this thread: "The Crumble Thread - No energy for a full on flan."
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Re: The Crumble thread - just because we can
« Reply #39 on: 27 November, 2013, 08:22:34 pm »
Last time that EldestCub made crumble here (as opposed to last time he made it anywhere, when he server up apple crumble for 10 YACFers in Whitby with a little bit of help) he felt that the quantity of topping seemed excessive for the available fruit.  So used a little over half of it, to give a roughly 40:60 fruit to topping ratio, and we stuck the rest of the topping in a poly bag in the freezer.  Which I got out of the freezer this morning and left in the fridge.

Today as they were chomping thru their Mummy Wednesday takeaway tea (Chish and Fips, since it was the big'un's turn to choose) I chucked a couple of perilously overripe nanabas in a dish and squidged them up a bit then added a handful of sultanas and a few chopped up dried apricots and stuck the topping on top, with a sprinkle of extra cinnamon. EldestCub was despatched to the audax control over the road to buy a pot of cream while his little bro was still eating his sossidge'n'scraps.  Nae faff v quick pud.

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