RE: British Icons - Pie or Crumble?
Lol....so many memories. The first thing I also learned in Domestic Science was rubbing in...it may probably not suprise you that I used to hate the feel of the flour and grease on my hands!
My mum also uses Stork, or hard marg and lard, but like you these days I use butter for crumble, I also stir in a half teaspoon of demerara sugar loosely at the end.
My favourire is always apple pie and crumble, apples were always plentiful from the orchard on my grandparents farm, but later it was blackberry and apple, even raspberries. I actually hate rhubarb, I also just dug up the rhubarb at my Mums as it was getting out of hand and I needed to make the garden more maneagble now.
Of course, Im from just a couple of miles from the rhubarb triangle !
The thing about dinner drives me wife insane, she is possible as insane as I, we call it dinner still up North and my wife gets all confused and asks what time we're eating to get it straight in her head!
What a great post, but no mention of debate over whether its OK to have crumble with ice cream, or should it always be custard ?
I appreciate the grease and flour experience - I get that sensation when I pick up dusty books in bookshops. Would it be wrong to carry a little duster with me?
Good Demerara sugar tip, crumble offers infinite variety 😍
I like my dinner at midday, sitting down properly at the table with a tablecloth and place settings. My grandparents used to have three cooked meals a day: breakfast, dinner at one o clock and another cooked meal - maybe a little fish someone had brought round (they lived by the sea) - at 5pm (and supper, probably a bit of cold pie, at 8pm). My grandad drove a drey for Shepherd Neame, horse-drawn when I was young, and would leave it outside while he ate his dinner.
Ah, the icecream vs. custard debate. There's also cream and evaporated milk to consider. Worthy of a post in their own right, I think. Perhaps I could get a tasting panel together.