Apple and Pear Crumble with Custard
With colder days fast approaching an autumnal desert is just the ticket! What could be better than Apple and Pear Crumble with home made custard? It's a perma favourite for a reason!
Ingredients
Fruit
- 4 pears, peeled and diced
- 4 cox apples, diced
- 50g demerara sugar
Crumble
- 400g plain flour
- 200g butter, diced
- 200g demerara sugar
Custard
- 8 egg yolks
- 75g caster sugar
- 400ml milk
- 400ml double cream
- 1 vanilla pod
Method
Preheat the oven to 180c
Place the fruit into an ovenproof dish and sprinkle over the sugar.
Mix the crumble mix together in a bowl using your fingertips. Mix until it resembles breadcrumbs, sprinkle over the dish and then bake for 45 minutes.
To make the custard, put the milk and cream in a pan with vanilla and its seeds. Warm gently through.
Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar.
Pour the milk mixture over the yolk mix, and whisk together.
Transfer this to the pan, continuously whisking until it thickens and sieve off into a bowl.
Ingredients
Fruit
- 4 pears, peeled and diced
- 4 cox apples, diced
- 50g demerara sugar
Crumble
- 400g plain flour
- 200g butter, diced
- 200g demerara sugar
Custard
- 8 egg yolks
- 75g caster sugar
- 400ml milk
- 400ml double cream
- 1 vanilla pod
Method
Preheat the oven to 180c
Place the fruit into an ovenproof dish and sprinkle over the sugar.
Mix the crumble mix together in a bowl using your fingertips. Mix until it resembles breadcrumbs, sprinkle over the dish and then bake for 45 minutes.
To make the custard, put the milk and cream in a pan with vanilla and its seeds. Warm gently through.
Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar.
Pour the milk mixture over the yolk mix, and whisk together.
Transfer this to the pan, continuously whisking until it thickens and sieve off into a bowl.
