Foraging for crumbles

Recent foraging expeditions at home and away resulted in enough blackberries and elderberries to add to Mr Ocado's Braeburn apples to make individual low-sugar crumbles.

                                   

First, I need to prepare the fruit.

Elderberries must be throughly washed, de-stalked, and cooked for 15-20 minutes. Raw elderberries, as well as the seeds, leaves, and bark of the tree, contain a toxic substance. Eating or drinking raw elderberries or another toxic part of the plant can lead to nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. drain the juice into a jug and use as the basis for cooking the fruit in the crumble.

Blackberries wash thoroughly, de-stalk

Apples - Peel, core, chop into small chunks

I prepared the topping - flour, oats, butter, and sugar in the trusty, 30-year-old Kenwood Chef food processor. It had just finished mixing in the sugar when the machine started smoking, Need a replacement asap.

Topping made, I added the crumble mix to the waiting fruit-filled bowls and cooked it for 40 mins. 

I forgot to sprinkle the top with sugar, and the finished crumble went back in the oven for browning off. Didn't really work and I didn't want the fruit to burn.

I'm looking forward to using fruit from my garden next year. Raspberry and blackberry pie sounds good.