The Pear And The Plum!!!

See Below For An Idea


Plum and pear crumble
?250mls (1 cup) water
?1 tsp vanilla essence
?1 tsp ground cinnamon or 1 cinnamon stick
?1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
?120g (2/3 cup, lightly packed) brown sugar
?800g plums, quartered, stones removed
?2 pears, cored and cut into pieces

For topping
?80g butter
?120g plain flour
?100g brown sugar
?40g rolled oats
?80g nuts (I used macadamias and pecans) coarsely chopped
?1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
?1 teaspoon baking powder
?Ice cream to serve

1. Preheat oven to 180°C.

2. Combine the water, vanilla essence, cinnamon and brown sugar in a medium heavy-based saucepan and stir over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil and simmer, uncovered, for 6-8 minutes or until mixture is slightly syrupy. Add the plums and pears and simmer for 3-4 minutes or until the fruit are just tender.

3. Cool and drain the plums of most of the syrup ? you don?t need the fruit to be bone dry, some syrup is still nice and helps to have the claret shaded juice to bubble up at the edges.

4. Place plums in the base of a 20cm pie plate

5. To make crumble topping, combine butter and flour in a medium sized bowl. Mix with your fingers until it is combined, then add in oats. At first, it won?t be like fine breadcrumbs as there is a bit more butter but once you add the oats it will be like coarse breadcrumbs. Add brown sugar, nuts, cinnamon and baking powder. Mix well.

6. Top fruit in dish with this rubbly mix. Bake for 2-25 minutes until golden.

7. Serve with ice cream

8. Enjoy
9. Wash up Plates
10. Dry Plates
11. Put Away Plates
12. Go Out And Shop For More Pears And Plums.... Its A Vicious Circle!!!!