Each week we’ll bring you a tasty recipe passed down by Emanuel families, from the Emanuel School Community Cookbook, The Family Meal. 

From the Kitchen of Daphna Levin-Kahn

Apple, Pear and Mixed Berry Crumble   

Ingredients 

For the Fruit

4 Granny Smith Apples
3 Pears (or your choosing), semi hard 
Handful of mixed frozen berries (keep frozen until ready to use)
Fresh lemon
Cinnamon
Sugar
Vanilla essence (optional)

For the Crumble

250g butter or Nutellex/margarine, softened
1 1/2 cups white flour
1 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
1 cup oats
1 1/2 – 2 cups raw sugar
Cinnamon (to your liking)

Directions  

​Preheat oven to 180⁰C

Fruit

Peel, quarter and core apples and pears. Slice each quarter in 3-4 slices.
Spread fruit evenly in large glass or ceramic pie/baking dish. Squeeze lemon juice over all fruit. Shake generous amounts of cinnamon and sugar over fruit (add 1-2 teaspoons of vanilla essence if you want. Mix fruit, lemon, cinnamon, and sugar until well combined. Sprinkle the handful of frozen berries, spread evenly throughout.

Crumble

Combine flours, oats, and sugar in a measuring cup. Chop butter/margarine into chunks in a mixing bowl. Pour dry ingredients over butter/margarine. Add at least 1 tablespoon of cinnamon – though I just shake very generously! Using hands, massage the dry ingredients into the butter/margarine until it holds together well and crumbles easily into large chunks. Make sure you have mixed all the dry stuff in! Making large crumbs with your hands, drop over the fruit and spread across the whole surface until completely covering the fruit by about 1.5cm – 2cm.

Bake in oven for about an hour until crumble is crunchy but not too dark and fruit is completely soft when testing with a toothpick or skewer in several places. 

Enjoy with vanilla ice cream, custard, cream, or yogurt.

You can order the Emanuel School Community Cookbook, The Family Meal by contacting rubykb@gmail.com