Making it Monday: Apple Crisp
This is one of our family’s favourite recipes and I make it a lot. It’s based on The Joy of Cooking’s fruit crisp recipe. If you don’t have the Joy of Cooking, consider getting it because it’s one of the best cookbooks out there. It has just about every standard recipe you could think of although I hack many of them depending on the ingredients I have on hand.
You could use just about any other fruit but I’m stuck in my ways and use Macintosh apples. I bet it would be good with a little rhubarb mixed in as well.
- Because we have a gang to feed I usually use 8 or nine apples, 1 cup of flour, half a cup of butter and one cup of sugar. If I don’t have brown I use all white but otherwise use half white & half brown. Don’t forget the cinnamon. We go a little heavy on the cinnamon but use at least half a teaspoon full if you’re not crazy about it.
Slice the apples up the same way you would a pie. Mix together the flour, sugar, butter and cinnamon until it’s a little crumbly and spread it on top of the apples. The book says to bake for 30 minutes at 375 but mine always takes at least 40. That’s probably because mine is thicker.
This is so good with vanilla ice-cream and it’s an easy classic dessert.
I love apple crisp with ice cream. I hope this recipe works with Granny Smith apples, because I’m going to try this recipe tonight!
Let me know how the apple crisp went MudslideMama. I commented previously but must have went crazy with the delete button since there were so many spam messages.