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This summer we moved to a super old house. The age of the house is unknown, but it is likely 80-100 years old.

The yard has very established landscaping in desperate need of some TLC. Some of the trees in need of some major care are huge apple trees. These trees produce huge amount of apples. However many are rotten, or have bugs or other creatures in them by the time they are ripe. Most of the apples that fall from the tree go directly into the compost. However yesterday I decided to try to save some. I collected as many of the best looking apples from the ground, and set to work in the kitchen peeling, cutting and coring the apples. I don’t know how many apples I used but I would guess around 20. I chopped all the good parts of the apple and set them aside.

The yard also has a few small blackberry bushes. I decided to pick some of those as well yesterday afternoon.

I found a recipe for apple crisp at joyofbaking.com and decided to give it a whirl. I made huge changes to it, and came up with this.

Apple Blackberry Crisp

Crumb Layers (bottom and top)

1 cup all purpose flour
½ cup brown sugar (not packed)
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground nutmeg
¼ tsp salt
6 tbsp olive oil margarine
1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
½ cup chopped walnuts

Filling

6 cups peeled cored cut up apple
1 cup of fresh or frozen blackberries
5 tbsp lemon juice
3 tbsp white sugar
A few shakes of cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare 9X13 baking dish.

To make the crumb mixture: In a large bowl combine all the ingredients expect the margarine and the walnuts. Mix thoroughly. Cut in the margarine. Now add the walnuts and mix well.

To make the filling mixture: Place the apple and the blackberries in a large bowl.  Sprinkle with cinnamon. Add the lemon juice and white sugar. Mix well.

Add about half of the crumb mixture to the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Set the rest of the crumb mixture aside. Now add all of the apple berry mixture to the baking dish. Top with remaining crumb mixture.

Bake for about 20-25 minutes. Serve warm plan ot with ice cream or frozen yogurt. Enjoy.

This recipe was a HUGE hit! Within less then 24 hours (with 3 people in the household) ¾ of the crisp is gone already.

I highly recommend this recipe to all apple crisp lovers. The berries make this recipe a cut above most traditional apple crisp recipes!

This evening I was in the mood for some apple crisp. I searched for recipes, but none really took my fancy, so I created my own. I was also not in the mood to peel the apples so I made it with the peel on. This was the first time I had ever made this dessert with the peel on. It turned out well. The photo does not do this apple crisp justice. It was very yummy indeed.

Oatmeal Apple Crisp

Ingredients

4-5 large granny smith (green) apples pared and sliced

½ cup white all purpose flour

1 ¼ cup rolled oats

¾ cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

¾ teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/3 cup olive oil margarine

1-2 tablespoon lemon juice

2 tsp rum extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees C. Grease baking dish (if desired). Arrange apple slices in baking dish. Sprinkle the lemon juice and rum extract over top of the apple slices. In a bowl combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mix well. Then add the margarine. Mix well. Spread this mixture evenly over the apples. Bake in the over for about 30 minutes. Serve. (serving suggestion: serve with vanilla frozen yogurt or ice cream).

Below is an image of the apple crisp.