The other day my wife and I were talking about what to do with the apples we got from our apple trees. We talked about canning them as pie filling, or making apple butter. I suggested that I could use some of them to make apple crisp. We both decided that would be good and I mentioned that my recipe was a simple but very tasty one. When I explained what the recipe was my wife said that her recipe was much better. With my honor at stake I challenged her to an apple crisp bake off. I love you darling, but you are going down. Let’s get it ON!

LLLAADIESS AND GENTLEMEN, LLLLEEEETTTS GET READY TO RRRRUUUMMMMBBBLLEE.

IN THIS CORNER IS JEFF “THE REDNECK” LOVE.

AND IN THE OTHER CORNER, HIS OPPONENT THE CRUSHERRR.

The following contest will be a no time limit, falls count anywhere, no disqualification fight to the finish. Go to your corner and come out baking.

The Recipes

The CRUSHER’S Apple Crisp

Ingredients:

• 2 ½ cups of your favorite apples, peeled, cored, and quartered
• 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ cup flour
• ½ cup oats
• 1/3 cup butter
• ¾ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Layer apples in a baking dish.

Combine brown sugar, flour, oats, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg and pour mixture over the apples.

Bake for 30 minutes. Serve.

Jeff’s Redneck Apple crisp

Ingredients:

• 2 ½ cups of your favorite apples, peeled, cored, and quartered
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 2 cups packed brown sugar
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• ¾ cup milk

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Combine the apples and brown sugar in a baking dish.

Bake for 30 minutes.

Combine milk, flour, and oats and pour mixture over the apples.

Bake for 1 hour. Serve.

The CRUSHER banned me from the kitchen during the preparation of her recipe so there are no prep pictures of her entry.

The end result:

After both recipes were done we had to figure out a fair way to determine the winner. The dogs all volunteered to taste both, but their taste is questionable. We decided the easiest way would be a blind taste test. We put a small amount of each on a plate. I put on a blindfold and my wife gave me a bite of each. I picked which one I thought was better and then we switched and Lorie tasted each and picked a winner.

After the taste test we both decided that it was a tie. The filling on my recipe was better and the topping on Lorie’s was the better. We will have to try again with combining the recipes.

Therefore because it was a tie I am declaring victory.