Pear and ginger crumble

This is a easy dessert which can be prepared ahead and also freezes well.

Ingredients
Pears
Ground ginger
Muscavado sugar
Plain flour
Butter/margarine
Oats

Method
Peel and slice pears.

Add ground ginger and brown sugar to taste-most pears are naturally fairly sweet.

If the pears are hard, cover and heat at 150C/350F until soft. This is not necessary for soft pears or if you like a little bite to them.

Make the topping. I'm really bad at measuring and make this entirely by eye, however,I usually use about 1 oz butter/margarine per person.

Mix the fat with oats and flour until it has the consistency of gooey breadcrumbs. I think the secret of success is to be generous with the oats and mean with the flour. Use approximately twice the weight of oats/flour to that of fat. My preference is that at least half of the dry mixture is oats.

Add sugar to taste.

Add topping to fruit and cook at 180C/400F for 20minutes.

Enjoy!