Not Actually Crumble

Yesterday I had three hard-working men for dinner. I had some indication when they'd be round, but not exactly, which made timing the dinner a bit complicated. I decided to buy ingredients for a 15-minute pasta dish to cook when they arrived, but I still wanted to impress, so I went all-out on the dessert instead. I had a vague notion of what I wanted to do: there was a big bag of frozen fruit in my freezer, flour and dark sugar in my pantry and a package of salted butter in the fridge. So I did a sort of crumble, making it up as I went along.

Ingredients
400 grams of frozen raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants & redcurrants (or other summer fruits)
100 grams of salted butter
100 grams of dark brown sugar
150 grams of plain flour
Double cream

Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Grease a casserole, set aside. Cut the butter into tiny, tiny cubes (this is my way of making sure I can work with hard, cold butter - probably not the right way, but you warm it up with your hands and all goes well). Mix with the flour in a big bowl, using your hands, until the butter/flour mixture gets the consistency of breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and mix a bit.

Put the frozen fruits in the casserole and pour over the crumbs. Put in the oven for about 40 minutes or until the top layer of crumbs is golden, just while you're preparing the rest of the food and waiting for people to arrive. Leave in the oven (mine makes sure the temperature goes down as soon as the 40 minutes are over) until you serve it. After serving, pour over some double cream.

Say it was a crumble experiment!