I almost always staying in Boston for Thanksgiving since my home in Ohio is really too far away to drive to and too expensive to fly to for such a short break. But it's become tradition to celebrate with other Thanksgiving "orphans", and this year I went over to Oeimae, Yumi (thanks for the invite!), and Judy's apartment in Brookline for yet another potluck. This time, I wanted to use up the two pears and two apples I had gotten in my Boston Organics delivery, so I decided to make a apple-pear crisp. But just those 4 fruits didn't seem to be enough for the 9"x13" pan, so I bought a bag of fresh cranberries to add to the mix for some color and tartness.
Apple-Pear-Cranberry Crisp
makes 24 servings
2 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced (I used Fuji apples)
2 pears, peeled, cored, and sliced (I used one Bosc and one Concord pear)
1 bag fresh cranberries
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 dash nutmeg
1 1/2 cups flour and 1 tablespoon flour, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups oats
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cups butter, cut into pieces
Preheat oven to 350°F.
makes 24 servings
2 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced (I used Fuji apples)
2 pears, peeled, cored, and sliced (I used one Bosc and one Concord pear)
1 bag fresh cranberries
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 dash nutmeg
1 1/2 cups flour and 1 tablespoon flour, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups oats
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cups butter, cut into pieces
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Toss the apple and pear slices with the cinnamon, nutmeg, and 1 tablespoon flour. Add the cranberries and sugar. Toss to mix. Place in a 9"x13" baking dish.
In a large bowl, add the remaining ingredients and cut the butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles a coarse meal. You can also use a food processor to do this, but I enjoy doing it with my hands.
Spread the topping evenly over the fruit. Bake for 45 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream!
That last part of the recipe is key. Even though there's a whole cup of sugar in the fruit filling, the fresh cranberries are really quite tart. Eating this crisp with ice cream mellows out the fruit so that the sum is much greater than its parts.
This recipe can be adapted to other fruits as well. You can omit the cranberries and use more of the apples or pears. A peach or cherry crisp is another possibility, but you'd have to adjust the amount of sugar since those fruits are already quite sweet.
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ReplyDeleteI found your blog while looking for videos of people folding dumplings and found the one you put on flickr that shows it just as I wanted. I'm teaching my first grade class to make dumplings as part of our study of China. As I read a few of your more recent posts I found we're distantly connected. I learned to make dumplings my senior year of college while living with Oeimae.
Anyways I've enjoyed reading some of your other recipes.
Emily
Wow, that's so funny we have that connection! Thanks for reading, and I hope the dumplings turn out!
ReplyDeleteThis was lovely! I love the combo of pear and apple, saddly I was out of cranberries so I threw in a few straggling frozen black berries and black raspberries I had in my freezer. Also went in a couple table spoons of Korean Black Raspberry wine (Bokbunjajoo). I was skeptical about my craziness but it came out divine! It tasted like the appleas had been baked in spiced mulled wine.
ReplyDeleteIf you have a chance give it a try!