Born desperate, but this Blueberry Crisp is now my favorite!
From
Beverly Mills
| May 21, 2010
In Kitchen Basics
Featured Recipe: Blueberry Crisp with Oatmeal Crust
This recipe traces back a decade ago to a rustic mountain cabin during a family reunion. We'd spent the morning canoeing around the lake from one wild blueberry bush to another gathering fruit. We returned with our buckets of blue gold to a kitchen stocked with few ingredients and no cookbooks except an ancient copy of "The Joy of Cooking."
The "Joy" fruit crisp recipe was perfect because it required nothing but our precious berries, a little butter, flour and brown sugar. It can be whipped up on the spur of the moment because you don't have to wait for butter to soften, and the only equipment you need is two knives, although a pastry blender is helpful.
That first blueberry crisp recipe was chosen out of desperation, but the results were so wonderful that I make it every summer. Through the years I've experimented, adding cinnamon and almond extract and substituting oatmeal for part of the flour.
Sometimes I use half blueberries and half peaches or blackberries. But the basic formula is always the same. How do you like to make fruit crisp?
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From mildred langer - May 21, 2010
wow!!! this site is fabulous. as a retired caterer your recipes pluck very strongly on my culinary heart strings. altho i am now living in a independent facility without kitchen ammenities(just a microwave and broiler oven) i am making do. and DO i will thanks to your content.
From Beverly Mills - May 21, 2010
Thanks Mildred. Good luck with your cooking in a small space...sounds like you could give us all quite a few good ideas yourself!
From Amy Dunn - May 22, 2010
We've got three blueberry bushes in our yard...Can't wait for the crop to come in to try out this recipe....Sounds wonderful, not to mention quick and easy, which is what I need right now!
From Alicia Ross - May 22, 2010
Amy, watch the birds - they harvested all of my blueberries last year before I could...even through the nets!
From Doris Summerville - May 31, 2010
It looks incredible! I might have to make myself some ASAP with the last of my frozen blueberries. Can't wait to try this! Thank you for sharing your recipe. :o)
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From Alicia Ross - May 21, 2010
I cut back even more on the flour and throw in nuts, sunflower seeds and flax meal...OMG is this amazing!