Apple crisp vs apple crumble--same thing?
Posted by yabbitgirl on Jun 12, 2009 · Member since Apr 2006 · 14266 posts
Here's a Q for our travelled friends. In the US we have a dessert called Apple Crisp: cooked apples with a sweet crumb topping with cinnamon etc. On UK TV I see something talked about called "crumble" which they use varying fruits for (rhubarb etc). Is it basically the same thing?
It's almost impossible to get my DH to eat fruit of any kind...serious trauma issues...but I thought maybe he would try apple crisp or crumble because the fruit cooks down. It's all about the texture in the mouth.
I miss rhubarb. We don't have it here. I used to eat it raw, dipped in salt.
Sort of , yes and no. I think it is more of a regional thing, Crisp, Crumble, Buckle, Brown Betty, Grunt, etc its all cooked fruit with some sort of topping, bread crumbs, nuts, oats, biscuts or dumplings. Call it whatever, its all yummy. I think Alton Brown on the Food network did a show on all the semantics, it was funny.
Yabbit, where do you live, you could probably grow rhubarb, it is like a weed and is no maintenance once started. I just helped a friend trim hers down, it was getting a bit out of line. The easiest thing to do is find someone with it, dig out a clump and trans plant it,it will die down right away, but it pops back next year.
I think they're the same thing. Do they both have an oat-based crumb topping?
I always thought "crisp" was just oats, sugar, cinnamon and "crumble" had flour involved in the topping in addition to the oats. Of course, there is also cobbler which is a flour based biscuit-like topping. Doesn't really matter to me since they all come out delicious!
I loved rhubarb, too. I just planted some this year...I hope it takes off.
Our crisp at home was just flour, sugar and butter, I think. I don't remember any oats but that was in the 60's.
I've never ever seen rhubarb anywhere in Spain, and I came 26 years back. However that doesn't mean it wouldn't grow. But not in an apartment, I'm thinking. ;D Trouble is, down here in the south if it's different than whatever's been here for the last 6 generations, you can't get it. You get "the look" and "Nobody wants that."
I just consulted The Joy of Vegan Baking. Crumbles are British and crisps are American. Apparently, either one may or may not have oats in the topping (my mom's apple crisp does). The only definite difference in the descriptions is the crumble uses "stewed fruit." But then she goes on to include two "crumble" recipes that use fresh fruit. So, yeah. It's all crystal clear now.
I just consulted The Joy of Vegan Baking. Crumbles are British and crisps are American. Apparently, either one may or may not have oats in the topping (my mom's apple crisp does). The only definite difference in the descriptions is the crumble uses "stewed fruit." But then she goes on to include two "crumble" recipes that use fresh fruit. So, yeah. It's all crystal clear now.
thanks - you saved me a trip across my living room to look this up - i knew she addressed this!
Shaw was right: two cultures divided by a common language. ;D
So if you use raw apples, they're much of a muchness. And if you use cooked, they're mush of a mushness.
Shaw was right: two cultures divided by a common language. ;D
So if you use raw apples, they're much of a muchness. And if you use cooked, they're mush of a mushness.
:lol: