English dessert - Apple crumble

This is a typical British Dessert. My friend saw it somewhere and wanted to try it in our kitchen. We had no idea how its gonna taste. On a jobless Friday evening, we started making this dish and to our utter shock the dish turned out disastrous (that’s what we thought)… because the crumble that we baked wasn’t really crispy or brown on the top. With all the doubts about it being cooked properly or not, we finished it completely because it tasted really yummy. We toppled it with the left over vanilla ice cream (from last week’s get together) and it was a perfect dessert for the evening. The creamy taste of the vanilla icecream blended extremely well with the apples and the cloves n cinnamon added a distinct flavor to the dish. It didn’t really have a good look but was a big hit in taste.

INGREDIENTS
4 large cooking green apples
250g sugar
200g Plain white flour/ all purpose flour
150g butter
1’’ cinnamon stick
1 clove
METHOD
Peel the apple skin and dice them into chunks.
Add sugar, clove, cinnamon along with the apple to a cooking vessel. Cover and cook them on a low flame. Stew the apple for about 30 minutes. Keep mixing them now and then with a wooden spoon. Remove from flame and mash them to a fine paste. The apples should be soft and don’t make it a puree. Transfer to a baking dish and allow it to cool.

For the Crumble topping: Mix the white flour, remaining sugar and butter to a bread crumble like consistency.
Preheat the oven to gas mark 2 / 150’c. Cover the stewed apple with the above made crumble. Don’t press the crumble over the apples. Just place them lightly over the mashed apples. Bake them for 30min / until the crumble is crunchy and golden brown. Serve immediately with vanilla ice cream and freshly whipped cream.