Apple Crisp

Name: Apple Crisp
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 3 lb apples (3 lb mixed firm-tart, peeled, 1/2-inch wedges); ½ cup sugar (divided: fruit and topping); 1 unit lemon (juice); 1 tbsp cornstarch; 1 ½ tsp cinnamon (ground, divided); ¾ tsp salt (divided); 1 cup oats (old-fashioned rolled — the crisp's namesake); ¾ cup flour; ⅔ cup brown sugar; ½ cup butter (cold, cubed); ½ cup walnuts (chopped)

Dessert · American

11 ingredients · 70 minutes · 8 servings

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446kcal4.5g protein17.5g fat72.9g carbs~$1.11/ serving*

Contains gluten, dairy, tree nut

Restrictions

Containsgluten · dairy · tree nutIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Diets

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

3 lb	apples (3 lb mixed firm-tart, peeled, 1/2-inch wedges)
½ cup	sugar (divided: fruit and topping)
1 unit	lemon (juice)
1 tbsp	cornstarch
1 ½ tsp	cinnamon (ground, divided)
¾ tsp	salt (divided)
1 cup	oats (old-fashioned rolled — the crisp's namesake)
¾ cup	flour
⅔ cup	brown sugar
½ cup	butter (cold, cubed)
½ cup	walnuts (chopped)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

1 cup

vanilla ice cream (the lawful pairing)

Steps

Mix6 min
fruit: apples + sugar + lemon + cornstarch + 1 tsp cinnamon
the wedges tossed with 1/4 cup sugar + lemon + cornstarch + cinnamon + 1/4 tsp salt in the baking dish — modest cornstarch, because apples run drier than peaches; the mixed-variety trick does the texture work no thickener can
Mix5 min
topping: rubbed until it clumps
oats + flour + brown sugar + remaining sugar, cinnamon and salt + cold butter rubbed in with fingers until it holds in rough clumps, walnuts tossed through — the clumps are the future crunch; fine crumbs bake into a cookie lid, clumps bake into gravel, and gravel is what a crisp means
Bake50 min
350°F, topping over fruit, until bubbling at the edges
packed fruit, clumped topping edge to edge, baked until the juices bubble THICKLY through the seams and the top is deep gold — the bubble is the doneness signal that matters: it means the cornstarch has boiled and the sauce beneath is sauce, not hot juice
Rest15 min
the sauce sets from lava to glaze
- vanilla ice cream
before serving warm with the ice cream — same physics as its cobbler cousin, same reward for the same patience; and it reheats for breakfast with yogurt, a use four of seven sources admit to in writing