Apple Crumble

We have a lot of apple trees on our property, thanks to my parents' hard work, so we are blessed with abundant apples from late summer until winter. Our primary use for these apples is apple crumble.

















Here is our crumble topping recipe:

1 cup quick cooking oats
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup chopped almonds
3 table spoons melted butter.

Combine the dry ingredients, add the butter, mix, place on top of apples (already steamed) in a dish, place in the oven until the topping is browned (20 mins or so).

















Peeling, coring, and slicing all those apples takes a lot of work, standing up in the kitchen. A lot of standing increases my back pain, but I still want to help out with all those buckets of apples sitting around! I have done a lot of standing in the kitchen doing this already this year. Last week, I was excited to purchase a machine which should help complete the work faster. An apple peeling, coring, and slicing machine!

Here I am with the results of the machine's efforts:


We also often include some berries in our crumble, as pictured above. Thanks to the ladies at Montain Musings for inspiring me to post pictures along with recipes. They posted a picture of the results of the Orange Muffin Delight recipe.