I baked a plum crumble!

Like Waitress’s Jenna sang, it’s amazing what baking can do.

Yesterday morning was a bad morning and I really did not want to stay cooped up in my room trudging through revision. Then, I noticed the bag of plums that my neighbours had given us the day before and thought, what can be done with these?

My first thought was jam but I know that takes a dire long time of standing next to a saucepan. The jam reminded me of my Nan so I then thought of crumble, searched a plum crumble recipe, and followed it.

I used the BBC Food recipe. I’ve given my version below. It didn’t take too long to make and I definitely recommend listening to Spotify’s Musical Hits playlist while you bake.

You will need:

• Chopping board and knife
• An oven-proof dish
• A mixing bowl
• 20-ish plums
• Lemon juice
• 175g plain flour
• 100g butter (I used vegan butter)
• 50g caster sugar
• 50g brown sugar
• 100g rolled oats

My Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 or 200 °C.
2. Chop up 20 small plums into quarters or enough to fill half way up the dish you are using. Don’t worry if you go over; plums cook down.
3. Add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
4. In a bowl rub together 175g plain flour and small scoops of butter that make 100g. The texture should resemble breadcrumbs.
5. Add 50g caster sugar and 50g brown sugar to the mixture and rub them all together.
6. Then add 100g rolled oats and mix in well. Now, the mixture should be crumbly.
7. Pour the crumble on top of the plums.
8. Put in the oven for 40 minutes or until the top looks golden-brown.

My plum-crumble

Let me know if you give it a try!