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Do you know apple crumble? Follow me into the Kitchie.
Today you will need apples, obviously, some flour, butter, some cinnamon powder, some
oatmeal for the crumble. Just a little oatmeal, not this much, but it should make the crumble
more delicious. You need sugar obviously; it is a pudding or desert, so you've got to
make it sweet. And the usual implements, something to stir with, with something to put the ingredients
in. You need a sieve, preferably pink. You need a pan, for the crumble, this is essential.
And of course, you need... Chris: A kettle Mike.
Mike: Oh and you need a kettle to make a cup of tea.
OK for this stage I'm going to take you through how to make the crumble. The crumble is the
crispy layer on top of the hot, sweet apples that should be nice and crisp and makes the
desert nice and tasty. Over here we have the ingredients Chris do you know what this is?
Chris: Ah that looks like butter Mike. Mike: Yyou're right; it's 75 grams of butter.
Do you know what this is Chris? Chris: Oh that looks like about half a cup
of oats Mike. Mike: And you're right about that again, urgh,
Quaker oats. Here we go, it's good for making the crumble a wee bit more tasty. What do
you see here Chris? Chris: Erm, I couldn't tell you Mike, I'm
not sure. Mike: Well that's 175 grams of flour. I think
you're going to get the next one... what do you see here Chris?
Chris: Well, if I'm not mistaken, that'd be a wee teaspoonful of cinnamon.
Mike: Precisely one teaspoonful of cinnamon we're going to mix all these things together
to make the crumble. OK first of all the butter, now if you've
got a blender or electric blender it's very useful for the next stage. I don't. So, I'm
going to use what I consider the best blender of all, Mike's fingers, here we go. Now you
should be making some kind of breadcrumb type mixture here, so as you mix it together it
should be getting kind of lumpy, crumbly, and it should be really nice and tasty on
top of the apples. So let's see how it coming along. Not quite ready yet, but if you just
keep going and erm, you should get something resembling some bread crumbs in a few minutes.
Welcome back to the kitchie, erm, as you can see we've had a little bit of a flour disaster
but so far nobody has been injured, so it's time to prepare the apples. This is the most
important part of the apple crumble. Would you have guessed?
OK, erm, first of all, we've got to peel the apples, so you'll need a normal vegetable
peeler, potato peeler. I'll just start doing that. Very simple, careful not to peel your
hand, that wouldn't be very good. We don't want any accidents in the kitchie. So yeh,
just peel away, peel away, I'm not going to peel the whole thing just now for the sake
of demonstration. And you want to chop the apple into quarters. Obviously don't use the
core, the middle of the apple and then you want to slice it just like that. You want
to have about a kilogram of apples. We've actually doubled the mixture for the crumble.
As you can see, the pan is fairly big and this crumble should be able to cover the apples
in the pan. So you'll need about a kilo of apples. OK, we've been hard at work, chopping
the apples. Here we've got about a kilo of apples, chopped up, ready to go. Chris what
do you see here? Chris: That looks to me like about 50 grams
of sugar. Mike: Yeh, you're right, it's between 50 and
100 grams of sugar. That's going to go into the pan which is on a low heat just now. Umm,
and what do you see here Chris in this cup? Chris: It's water Mike.
Mike: It's a little splash of water. A couple of tablespoons of water. Erm, so before we
start on the apples, just to let you know I have... I pre-heated the oven, very important
for the crumble. We're going to be putting that in in about for or ten minutes.
OK, so, what we should do here is throw the apples in the pan and hear it sizzle a little
bit. We're going to cook it in maybe a few batches. Throw in the sugar and a drizzle
of water and you want to cook all this together until it gets a little soft for about 5 minutes
on a nice low heat and remember to pre-heat your oven as well.
Five minutes later. Hi Chris, it's going well thanks, erm, the
apples are pretty much ready and they've been on for just over 5 minutes, they're nice and
soft and hopefully sweet. So, I'll take the heat off those. Erm, I preheated the oven
so this should be nice and hot. And what we're going to do now is put the apples in here,
very easy. Just get a nice, not too thick, layer of apples in the pan there. Crumble
we made earlier and just pop that on top basically. Smells good already, exciting thing!
And then, this needs to go into the oven. For about 20 to 25 minutes. I've got no setting
on my oven, so, as I said, this is the first time I've ever done this, so who knows what's
going to happen. Chris: You're playing with fire there Mike.
Mike: hopefully we don't have a fire in the making of this. But erm. Let's hope not. Yep,
maybe 20 minutes, if you do have an oven, and you can control the temperature of that
oven, then it should beabout 200 degrees or gas 6. See you in twenty minutes.
About 20, 25 minutes later. Erm, the kettle's just boiling. Turn that off.
The crumble, looks like it's ready. Let's see how it's turned out.
Let's have a look. Mmm looks yummy, how does it smell?
Chris: Smells good Mike, good work. Mike: Let's make a cup of tea, to go with
this. OK, we've got the cup of tea. We've got the
crumble. And we've got Chris. Chris: Cheers
Mike: Cheers Chris, how are you feeling? Chris: Overwhelmed with anticipation Mike.
Do you mind if I just tuck in? Mike: Not at all
Chris: The proof of the pudding shall, as always, be in the eating. I decided to forego
the green custard. Mike: Well Chris, what do you think?
Chris: Goodness Mike, I think you've nailed it. It's tremendous. Good work
Mike: Excellent, thanks very much. Chris: Is this really your first time?
Mike: Absolutely, I can't believe you don't believe me.
Chris: Good work, Mikey thank you very much Mike: You're welcome .So, see you next time
on McRitchie in the Kitchie.