An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach.
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Fannie Farmer’s Peach Crumble. June 19, 2025. The juicy sweet taste of peaches is one of my favorite summer treats. Even the scent of fresh peaches is tantalizing. The unfortunate part is that they don’t last long at all and bruise terribly easy. The only remedy for this is freezing and canning. Myself, I prefer freezing to keep some of that snappy fresh peach taste intact.

As we had a box of early white peaches for just my hubby and me a peach dessert made sense. I decided to make an old-fashioned crumble which is like a crisp only with no oatmeal. It isn’t a dessert I see except when mentioned in the right sort of books and I wanted to try it. I thought Fannie Farmer could help, so I took a look through her vintage Fannie Farmer Cookbook and was rewarded with a standard apple crumble which she called “Apple Candy Pie” that looked good. I noticed vintage Betty Crocker had an almost identical recipe for apple crumble as well. Fannie Farmer had a peach version as well, so her recipe was the chosen winner for today. Note: both cookbooks interchangeably used crisp and crumble although by current definition the crisp uses oats.

It was a splendid crumble! I actually like it much better than a crisp! Do make sure to serve it with lashings of homemade whipped cream!

Fannie Farmer’s Peach Crumble

Ingredients

4 cups peach slices
3/4 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter (room temperature)
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

Spread the peaches into a greased, small shallow baking pan. Note: I sprinkled 1/4 cup of white sugar over the peaches. The original recipe doesn't call for this. The choice is yours.
In another bowl combine flour, sugar, salt, and cinnamon.
Using a fork, cut in the butter until you have a crumb mixture.
Spread crumb topping evenly over peaches.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Note: Fannie's recipe did not call for any sugar over the fruit, but I sprinkled the peaches with a 1/4 cup sugar anyway.
Extra note: While Fannie's apple crumble called for 1/4 cup of water, the peach version did not appear to. I left that out and was glad. The peaches are plenty juicy with no extra water!

Fannie’s recipe is also right here on page 349.

Have a beautiful day!

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