Don’t worry about overbuying fruit in the summer. Too much fruit is always a good thing when you can make fruit crisp.
Fruit Crisp
Ingredients
Filling:
- 4 cups fruit
- ¼ to ½ cup sugar, depending on the sweetness of your fruit
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice (skip if your fruit is more tart than sweet)
Topping:
- 1 cup (2 sticks) margarine, at room temperature
- 2 ½ cups old fashioned oats
- 1 ¼ cups flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup demerara sugar (this gives the topping a bit more crunch. Replace with brown sugar if unavailable)
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350⁰F.
- Slice or cube fruit and place in 8×8 baking pan. Add the rest of the filling ingredients and mix together in the pan.
- In a bowl, combine all topping ingredients. The topping recipe yields enough for at least 3 8 x 8-inch pans (freeze the rest in Ziploc bags). Using ¼ to ⅓ of the topping, sprinkle on top of fruit mixture and bake until the juices are bubbling – approximately 40 minutes.
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