A watercolour of stewed golden peach under a scattered layer of toasted oats and almonds
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Adapted from Fruit crumble

Peach and oat pan crumble

An established dish converted to shelf-stable ingredients. Every substitution is documented below.

How long it keeps

About 6 months, set by Vegetable oil (sunflower or rapeseed).

Indicative, for planning a build before you buy. The answer for a pack you already own is the best before date printed on it, and that only holds if it has been stored as the label says.

Serves
3
Burners
1
Pans
1
Water
0.05 L
Active
12 min
Total
18 min

Ingredients

Crumble without an oven, done in the order that actually works on a burner: the topping first, the fruit second, assembled at the table.

  1. Topping first, in a dry-ish pan. Oil, then oats and half the sugar. Medium heat, stirred almost continuously, six to eight minutes until they are golden and smell toasted. Almonds in for the last minute. Tip it all onto a plate to cool and crisp.
  2. Wipe the pan. Drained peaches in with the remaining sugar, cinnamon, lemon and three spoons of their juice.
  3. Five minutes at a bubble, breaking the peaches up a little, until the syrup thickens.
  4. Fruit into bowls, topping scattered over at the moment of serving.

Putting the topping on early is the one way to ruin it. It softens within two minutes of meeting hot fruit, and the contrast is the entire pudding.

Serves 3.

What this was adapted from

Fruit crumble: the British pudding of stewed fruit under a rubbed-in flour and oat topping

  • butter rubbed into flour and baked → oats toasted in oil with sugar, scattered on top

    No oven and no butter. Toasting the oats in oil with sugar gives a crisp, sweet, nutty layer that does the same job on the tongue; it sits on the fruit rather than forming a crust over it, so it goes on at the end.