Rhubarb Crumble

Tuesday evening Fi showed off her domestic chops by whipping up a delicious rhubarb crumble.  We got the rhubarb stalks from a Mooring allotment harvest, one of the first this season.  Fi suggested using them for crumble, & I found myself agreeing before she was even finished speaking.  I love crumble.

Stock photo.  Fi's looked 10x better than this, 

so I was too busy cramming it into my belly to take pix..

Though I can't recall eating much in America, crumble seems to be a pretty common dessert here.  That reminds me: they call it pudding.  In fact, all desserts are called puddings.  The question, "What're we having for pudding?" would in no way sound strange to British ears.

Pudding is for pudding.

Anyhow, as you can glean from the photo, crumble's a bit like cobbler, cooked fruit & sugar base topped in a streusel of sorts, usually butter, flour, & sugar, which then browns in the oven.  While we Americans would welcome a spoonful of ice cream on the plate with our cobbler, the British drizzle a warm custard on top of their crumbles, perhaps their version of a la mode.  Any way you translate it, the dish is delicious.