Apple Oat/Crumble
September 23rd, 2007 by HenTried something new tonight, an apple crumble in which a) I used real apples and not a lazy tin, and b) I replaced 40% of the flour with oats. The apple was a hit, though my soul cries out for Bramleys (or at least Cox’s) and not Granny Smiths. No more tins of apple + bad ingredients (sucralose/high fructose) for me. The oats were good, but made the crumble strangely chewy and unsatisfying.
Reading around, it seems English apples don’t grow well in Washington as it’s too warm (or in the other apple centres of Spain and S. France). West Virginia surprisingly is the place to go to hunt some down, and I also saw a blog that had found Bramley’s in Atlanta. It’s a bit odd that it’s too warm here in Washington, the weather seems very similar to the UK. Maybe when they say Washington, they mean the core of the state (east of the rockies), I think someone said that’s where apple growing country was. Perhaps on the Seattle coast I’ll be able to find some apples and get to feel nostalgic.