Very cheap and very easy apple and blackberry crumble

What could be better on the hottest day of the year than some apple and blackberry crumble! Happening to notice a very expensive (£2) tiny punnet of Dutch blackberries in a green-grocers shop we thought – hang on, we can go out and pick these ourselves – good local blackberries. And, there’s only one thing I know how to cook with blackberries.

So, you take one small bowl of foraged blackberries (better give them a wash, especially if picked at dog height)…

Some apples, straight from the tree (in our garden – so convenient – otherwise consider scrumping)…

Peel, core and chop all the apples, not too small, then throw into a dish with a squeeze of lemon juice and few spoons of sugar, maybe 6 or 8 tablespoons (I didn’t measure), stir it round then stud through with all the blackberries.

This is now where cheap and easy part company, on this occassion, feeling hard done by having had to peel and chop all those apples, I opted for the easy route and used this….

It’s not as good as the real thing, but it’s not bad at all, and you just open the bag and pour it over the fruit. Easy peasy.

Then, after baking it for 30 mins in a hot oven, you’re treated to this. With vanilla ice cream. Heaven…