One of my all-time favourite desserts - just the smell of it is enough to take me back to my childhood (LOL when mum would roll her eyes at me for eating the topping raw!)
Ingredients
1lb apples, peeled, cored and chopped (I like to peel them, cut into quarters and take out the core, then slice the quarters into chunky slices - about a quarter inch thick). In Scotland I'd use Bramley 'cooking' apples, but since they seem hard to find here, Granny Smith apples work just as well.
3-4oz white sugar
Cinnamon (no set amount - just a good heavy shake LOL - to taste. Which also means you don't have to use it if you don't want to)
6oz all purpose/plain flour
3oz butter/margarine
2oz white sugar
Preheat oven to 375 F.
Prepare apples and tip into a 2lb baking dish. Pour on the sugar and cinnamon and mix evenly. Smooth apples in dish and set aside.
Sift flour into a bowl and add butter. Rub in with fingertips until like fine breadcrumbs. Stir in sugar.
Cover apples thickly and evenly with topping (if your baking dish is a bit bigger than 2lb, increase topping amounts accordingly - I had to use 'plus half' last time I made it).
Smooth the topping a little and press down slightly with your palm.
Place dish in middle of oven and bake 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350 F and bake a further 45 minutes, until topping is nicely browned.
Allow to cool a few minutes before serving. Serve with ice cream or just some heavy cream poured over.
yum....
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