This week you are making a dessert to practice the 'rubbing-in' method. This traditional dessert combines cooked fruit and crunchy topping, that can be flavoured and adapted to your own taste. Good fruit to use include Bramley (cooking) apples and rhubarb.
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- If you chop your fruit up fairly small, there is no need to pre-cook it.
- Rub in the butter with your fingertips so it doesn't melt.
- Ensure your fruit is evenly chopped so it cooks at the same rate.
- Don't chop fruit too small or it will turn mushy.
- Adding oats adds texture and fibre to this dessert.
- Different fruit will require different levels of sugar depending upon how sweet they are.