blackberries, crumbled and plucked

[mizkit]

I was faffing around on Saturday trying to convince myself to get my act together enough to Make The Apple Pie, and mumbled, “Or maybe I could just make a blackberry apple crumble, that’d be easier,” in the vicinity of our guest, who said, “I didn’t know that was an option!!!”, thus indicating I should do that. :)

I poked around the internet and

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Oh ...

[taiyosan]

Can i slice the apples in 30th instead?

Just kidding; Hi Kit ~ ~

[desperance]

I wuz gonna go for 35ths. And then decided not to. Thank you for taking this bullet in my stead.

[desperance]

I still have not got used to the way blackberries hereabouts are a spring and summer crop. It just seems so many ways of wrong. (This has not stopped me planting boysenberries against a sunny south wall. I doubt they'll ever achieve the splendour of your blackberry patch, but we do get gorgeous berries.)

Also, I was bewildered by Americans' bewilderment when I spoke of crumbles, until we (that is, me and America) realised that when I spoke of crumbles, they should hear crisps. They they spoke back to me about buckles, Betties, slumps and grunts...

[mizkit]

Do we call them crisps in America? I can't remember anymore...

[jennielf]

So... is an oz. less or more than a knob of butter?

*ducks* Sorry, I had to ask. :)

[mizkit]

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