Brown betty (bamalam)
Mar. 5th, 2010 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fishitarianHad a craving for pie (thank you Supernatural) so I did something somewhere between lazy and diligent: instead of buying a pie or making a pie I made a brown betty, which has many pie-like attributes without the work of rolling a crust.
I made this by the ever-accurate "'til it looks right" method. I will attempt to transcribe that here.
Start with fresh fruit. Apples are popular; stone fruits or berries work well too. I went to the store and discovered nectarines were on sale, so I bought sixteen of them. (Peaches are the more popular stoned fruit; nectarines were on sale!)(Sixteen was probably overkill and a dozen would have done for even the big pan; but they were on sale!)
Fresh fruit that is on sale but you know, not moldy, is usually awesomely ripe and ready to be a delicious dessert. Also it's on sale.
So I took my sixteen nectarines and sliced them, arranging the slices in several layers in a 13x9 pyrex baking pan. That took a while. It also totally filled up the pan. Did I mention, a dozen probably would have been plenty?
Then I made the topping. I can tell you for a fact that I used a cup of butter, but everything else here is a guesstimation.
1 cup butter
2/3 cup or so of brown sugar
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup oatmeal (I don't have any loose; I put in two breakfast packs, flavored Maple Brown Sugar)
2/3 cup or so of walnut pieces
Cream the brown sugar and butter, add the rest on top and mix with spoon until it becomes apparent that mixing will occur better with your hands. Ultimately you will get a crumbly buttery mixture. You shouldn't have to mix too much to get this. You don't even have to make sure all the flours is mixed in, it's totally okay if you have a lot of crumbles and a little powder at the end.
Scoop crumbles on top of fruit with your hands. Distribute evenly over the pan.
Bake at 400°F for 45 minutes.
Good with ice cream or solo. Delicious hot. Delightful dessert, healthy breakfast.
Yum.
I made this by the ever-accurate "'til it looks right" method. I will attempt to transcribe that here.
Start with fresh fruit. Apples are popular; stone fruits or berries work well too. I went to the store and discovered nectarines were on sale, so I bought sixteen of them. (Peaches are the more popular stoned fruit; nectarines were on sale!)(Sixteen was probably overkill and a dozen would have done for even the big pan; but they were on sale!)
Fresh fruit that is on sale but you know, not moldy, is usually awesomely ripe and ready to be a delicious dessert. Also it's on sale.
So I took my sixteen nectarines and sliced them, arranging the slices in several layers in a 13x9 pyrex baking pan. That took a while. It also totally filled up the pan. Did I mention, a dozen probably would have been plenty?
Then I made the topping. I can tell you for a fact that I used a cup of butter, but everything else here is a guesstimation.
1 cup butter
2/3 cup or so of brown sugar
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup oatmeal (I don't have any loose; I put in two breakfast packs, flavored Maple Brown Sugar)
2/3 cup or so of walnut pieces
Cream the brown sugar and butter, add the rest on top and mix with spoon until it becomes apparent that mixing will occur better with your hands. Ultimately you will get a crumbly buttery mixture. You shouldn't have to mix too much to get this. You don't even have to make sure all the flours is mixed in, it's totally okay if you have a lot of crumbles and a little powder at the end.
Scoop crumbles on top of fruit with your hands. Distribute evenly over the pan.
Bake at 400°F for 45 minutes.
Good with ice cream or solo. Delicious hot. Delightful dessert, healthy breakfast.
Yum.
