The Red Witches Crumble

A yummy raspberry and strawberry crumble gently spiced with ginger and cinnamon – perfect treat for these dark evenings.

This contains oats which don’t really agree with me but they work so well here I decided I had to use them. I’d like to find a good all-nut version of this crumble – because I love this. I can’t get over how good strawberries and raspberries are together. I’d imagined the tastes would clash because they’re so distinct but actually they each enhance the flavour of the other.

I discovered this by accident when I went to make a mixed berry crumble and found I only had frozen strawberries and raspberries. I was desperate for a pudding so I went ahead and made it. They do need quite a lot of sugar or sweetness added and the crumble needs more flavour as well otherwise it gets overpowered. But there was the makings of something really good there.

So I loved the taste of strawberries and raspberries together so I kept making a crumble with them but I kept on having to add some sweetness after it was cooked because I never seemed to add enough at the start – and the crumble was just blah. Then one evening I was low on sugar and had a jar of stem ginger in syrup so I sprinkled over a little sugar and then used the syrup from the jar to sweeten them. It made all the difference – but then I wanted to use up the stem ginger…

Anyway that is how this came about and it’s a little bit of magic!