When the days begin to get cooler after a long hot summer, it is time to start baking again. One fun desert that is also tasty and easy to prepare is an apple crisp. Of course you will need to find an apple crisp recipe. There is a simple one included at the end of this article.
Apple crisps are one of several simple yet delicious baked deserts that use the fruits of the season and pastry toppings. If you want to try other similar deserts, look for recipes for Brown Bettys, Pandowdies, Crumbles, Cobblers or Grunts. These home-style deserts can be great comfort foods. In fact, you may find them difficult to resist. The topping on an apple crisp is a mixture the is much like that of a streusel. The topping will normally contain butter, flour sugar, oatmeal and nuts. There are also some spices to mix in which will complement the apples or other fruit that may be used.
When the desert is done and you open your oven, you will immediately see why this desert is called an apple crisp.
As mentioned earlier, apple crisps are most popular during the cooler fall or even winter days. Fortunately, this is the time that apples are fresh from the harvest. There is nothing like the tartness of a Granny Smith apple combined with the apple crisp topping served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. For additional color and flavor, you may want to add a second fruit such as cranberries or raspberries. You might also try the favorite of Great Brittan where apples are mixed with Blackberries to make an apple crisp.
If your apple crisp recipe calls for old fashioned rolled oats, do not substitute quick cooking oats. Quick cooking oats are cut then steamed and rolled. Old fashioned oats are steamed and rolled while whole. This gives them a much nuttier flavor and the apple crisp topping a much better texture.
To prepare oats into oatmeal, the oats are steamed and rolled flat. Quick cooking oats are cut before the process begins and rolled thinner to cook more quickly. Oatmeal has been shown to help to lower cholesterol. When added with the apples, it is a good way to get fiber into your system.
Here is a quick apple crisp recipe. You are going to need four medium Granny Smith apples. The will need to be peeled and cored. Once the apples are peeled, and sliced place them in a greased 9x13 baking pan. Top the apples with the apple crisp topping.
The topping is made with 3/4 cups of brown sugar, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup old fashioned oats, one third coup of margarine, cinnamon and nutmeg. Normally it will take 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon of each of the spices, but adjust to taste. Mix these toppings until they form a crumbly mixture and spread over the apples.
Bake your apple crisp for thirty minutes in an oven that has been preheated to 375 degrees. When the apples are tender, the crisp is done.
Serve the apple crisp warm out of the oven topped with ice cream. Leftovers (if there are any) can be warned for about a minute and topped with ice cream.
Apple crisps are one of several simple yet delicious baked deserts that use the fruits of the season and pastry toppings. If you want to try other similar deserts, look for recipes for Brown Bettys, Pandowdies, Crumbles, Cobblers or Grunts. These home-style deserts can be great comfort foods. In fact, you may find them difficult to resist. The topping on an apple crisp is a mixture the is much like that of a streusel. The topping will normally contain butter, flour sugar, oatmeal and nuts. There are also some spices to mix in which will complement the apples or other fruit that may be used.
When the desert is done and you open your oven, you will immediately see why this desert is called an apple crisp.
As mentioned earlier, apple crisps are most popular during the cooler fall or even winter days. Fortunately, this is the time that apples are fresh from the harvest. There is nothing like the tartness of a Granny Smith apple combined with the apple crisp topping served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream. For additional color and flavor, you may want to add a second fruit such as cranberries or raspberries. You might also try the favorite of Great Brittan where apples are mixed with Blackberries to make an apple crisp.
If your apple crisp recipe calls for old fashioned rolled oats, do not substitute quick cooking oats. Quick cooking oats are cut then steamed and rolled. Old fashioned oats are steamed and rolled while whole. This gives them a much nuttier flavor and the apple crisp topping a much better texture.
To prepare oats into oatmeal, the oats are steamed and rolled flat. Quick cooking oats are cut before the process begins and rolled thinner to cook more quickly. Oatmeal has been shown to help to lower cholesterol. When added with the apples, it is a good way to get fiber into your system.
Here is a quick apple crisp recipe. You are going to need four medium Granny Smith apples. The will need to be peeled and cored. Once the apples are peeled, and sliced place them in a greased 9x13 baking pan. Top the apples with the apple crisp topping.
The topping is made with 3/4 cups of brown sugar, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup old fashioned oats, one third coup of margarine, cinnamon and nutmeg. Normally it will take 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon of each of the spices, but adjust to taste. Mix these toppings until they form a crumbly mixture and spread over the apples.
Bake your apple crisp for thirty minutes in an oven that has been preheated to 375 degrees. When the apples are tender, the crisp is done.
Serve the apple crisp warm out of the oven topped with ice cream. Leftovers (if there are any) can be warned for about a minute and topped with ice cream.
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