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dessert born when wartime rationing made pie crust a luxury nobody could afford
means To break or fall apart into small fragments, or a baked dessert of fruit topped with a loose, sandy mixture of flour, butter, and sugar.
from From Middle English 'cremelen,' a frequentative of the Old English 'crimman' (to crumble or insert), related to 'crumb' — itself from Old English 'cruma,' a cousin of words across the Germanic languages like Dutch 'kruim' and German 'Krume.' The dessert sense is much younger, lending its name to the crumbly topping it's named for.
- war baby
- Invented in 1940s Britain to save scarce butter and flour
- lazy genius
- No rolling, no chilling, just rubble and fruit
- crumb science
- Cold butter is the secret to proper pebbly texture
- global cousins
- Crisp adds oats, betty adds breadcrumbs, cobbler adds biscuit
apple crumble — british dessert with baked apples topped with buttery oat mixture, standard on uk menus since the 1960s
rhubarb crumble — classic british pudding pairing tart rhubarb with sweet crumble topping, particularly popular in yorkshire