Almond and mostly cherry crumble
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This fruit crumble was conceived in the wake of my infatuation with the tart crust method transmitted by Dave Lebowitz (here on genius recipes titled “Paule Caillat’s brown butter tart crust”). The method derives from outside the box of all pastry crusts. After I made it the first time, I immediately wondered what it would be like if I added some almond flour and corn meal to it, but for fear of ruining the whole pastry crust concept I decided to experiment with a sort of variant as a crumble topping. It was so good as a crumble— sturdier than a streusel and more like a sort of almond cookie— that I have yet to try the variant as a pie crust though I think it might work; but I’ve been making the crumble ever since. <br /> <br />I’ve used all different combinations of soft summer fruit but always with at least half cherries, adding in whatever other soft fruit I have in the kitchen – plums, peaches, blueberries or blackberries and occasionally a handful of dried fruit, raisins or cut up dried plums. There is minimal sugar in the topping and I have not been adding any sugar to the fruit at all; the condensed juices from the cherries is a perfections of sweetness. (NB it needs the ripe cherries because most other fruits don't have enough sweetness by themselves to make it work with no added sugar.) <br /> <br />You might not think any of this will work at all but it does. I've also used pecans for the nut component and that is also startlingly delicious. <br />
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