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Nature’s perfect couple

By Anne • August 15, 2014 • Recipes

Summer, here in Ontario, has left the room.

Thank goodness she left her bounty behind.

Ontario peaches and wild blueberries together are reason enough to celebrate August, ridiculous chilly weather aside.

On their own, they are sweet glory.

Or, throw them in a teensy cup, sprinkle some crumble, and bake up a simple treat for the gods.

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Peach blueberry pots

makes 6-10 servings, depending on size of your cups

What you need:

  • 8 ripe peaches, peeled* and sliced

  • 2/3 cup fresh wild blueberries

  • 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice

  • 2 teaspoons lemon zest

  • ⅓ cup granulated sugar

  • ¼ cup all purpose flour

  • For topping:

  • 1 cup all purpose flour

  • ⅓ cup cup granulated sugar

  • ¼ cup light brown sugar

  • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt

  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon

  • ½ cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter

ramekins or other custard cups

What you do:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F.

  2. Combine lemon juice, zest, sugar, and flour. Add peach slices and toss.

  3. With rubber spatula, gently fold in blueberries.

  4. Spoon the mixture into cups and let sit while you make topping.

  5. Combine flour, both sugars, salt and cinnamon in food processor.

  6. Dice butter than add to processor and pulse until mixture is loosely together in a crumble.

  7. Sprinkle over fruit.IMG_3190

  8. Place cups on baking sheet (line it with parchment to catch fruit juice drips!).

  9. Bake for 45 minutes until topping is browned and juices are bubbly.

  10. Let sit for 10 minutes and then serve warm. DSC_0565

 

The easiest way to peel peaches is to cut an X at bottom of peach then drop them briefly (30 seconds) into boiling water. Remove with a slotted spoon and drop them into a bowl of cold water for a minute. Peeling back from the X, you will find the skin comes away perfectly, taking no excess fruit with it. You can then slice easily into wedges.

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These luscious fruits deserve their own festival and where better than Niagara? For more on the annual festival, read here.

We’re having fun with our own version, making tarts and ice cream. Peach ice cream is the reason the stuff was invented.

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  • Reply Joanna August 4, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    The peach and blueberry crumble recipe is a favourite with my family and it’s the perfect month to make it. A scoop of vanilla Haagen Dazs on top isn’t too terrible either. Delicious!😋

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