• 6 APPLES
• 140 GRAM SUGAR
• 75 GRAM BUTTER
• 1 TEASPOON CINNAMON
• 60 GRAM FLOUR
• 60 GRAM OATS

• 1 KG APPLES
• 50 GRAM RAISINS
• 1 LEMON
• 1 TBSP GINGER IN SYRUP
• 1 TSP CINNAMON
• 250 GRAM FLOUR
• 175 GRAM COLD BUTTER
• 125 GRAM SUGAR

Peel and slice the apples, mix them with 30 gram butter in cubes, the cinnamon and 75 gram sugar and put in an oven dish. Mix the oats with the flour and the remaining butter and sugar and put on top. Bake in the oven at 175 degrees for 40 minutes.

"Apple crumble" in Great Britain and Ireland is the same as "apple crisp" in the USA and Canada. The crumbles can be made out of dough, with nuts, cookies, corn flakes or oat flakes. It is a recent recipe, probably from around 1924. See also recipes for apple-marmalade crumble and apple almond crumble. Cobblers and pandowdy have crumbles of a more coarse nature.

This is a recipe from Mongolia. Serve this pie the 18th of March when Mongolia celebrates "men's and soldiers'day"m. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and celebration.

Wash the lemon, grate the rind and press out the juice. Peel and slice the apples and mix them with the ginger, grated lemon rind, lemon juice and raisins. Mix the flour with the butter and sugar and knead to a dough. Roll out the dough and put in a spring form. Put in the apple mixture and decorate the top with leftover dough. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees during 45 minutes. Put the oven temperature to zero and leave the pie in until the oven has cooled down.

On 7 October 1840, William II becomes King of The Netherlands and will stay that for 9 years, until his death. He was known as conservative and did not initiate any changes, just like his father William I. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and worldwide history.