Apple crisp (name used in the United States and Canada) or apple crumble (name preferred in the United Kingdom and Australia) is a dessert consisting of baked apples topped with a crisp crust. Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and often oats and brown sugar, ginger, and/or nutmeg. Many different kinds of fruit can substituted for apples, such as peaches, berries, pears, etc. One of the most common variants is apple rhubarb crisp, in which the rhubarb provides a tart contrast to the apples.
Famous quotes containing the words apple and/or crisp:
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.
“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)