In a Pickle · traditional recipes · Recipe 14

Traditional Apple Crumble

Tender baked apples beneath a crisp buttery topping.

Watercolour-style illustration of ingredients for Traditional Apple Crumble: Cooking apples, Caster sugar, Plain flour, Cold butter, Light brown sugar, Ground cinnamon.

Watercolour-style ingredient illustration · AI-generated

Ingredients

Batch size:
800 g
80 g
200 g
120 g
100 g
1 tsp

Method

  1. Heat oven to 190°C. Peel, core and slice apples.
  2. Toss apples with caster sugar and cinnamon; put in a baking dish.
  3. Rub butter into flour until crumbly; mix in brown sugar.
  4. Scatter topping over apples and bake 35–45 minutes until golden and bubbling.

Serving & storage

Serve warm. Cool leftovers promptly and refrigerate up to 3–4 days.