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Old-Fashioned Blueberry Crisp

Prep15 min
Cook40 min
Total55 min
Yield9×9 pan · serves 8
DifficultyEasy

Ingredients

  • 5 cupsfresh blueberries≈ 495 median blueberries
  • 1/3 cupgranulated sugar
  • 2 tbspcornstarch
  • 1 tbsplemon juice
  • 3/4 cupall-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cupold-fashioned rolled oats
  • 2/3 cuplight brown sugar, packed
  • 1/2 tspground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tspfine salt
  • 1/2 cupcold unsalted butter, cubed

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C). Butter a 9×9-inch baking dish.
  2. Toss blueberries with granulated sugar, cornstarch, and lemon juice in the dish.
  3. Stir flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. Work in the cold butter with your fingertips until the mixture forms moist clumps.
  4. Scatter the topping evenly over the berries.
  5. Bake 35–40 minutes, until the topping is deep golden and the filling bubbles around the edges.
  6. Cool 15 minutes before serving. Vanilla ice cream is not optional in spirit.

Notes

  • Crisp = oats in the topping, crumble = none. This is a crisp.
  • Frozen berries: don't thaw, add 1 extra tablespoon of cornstarch, and expect 5 extra minutes.
A 100-gram serving of blueberries contains roughly 160 mg of anthocyaninsLaid end-to-end at 12.7 mm apiece, it would take about 30 billion berries to reach the MoonThe world's largest blueberry weighed 16.2 grams — a Guinness record set in Australia in 2020Wild lowbush blueberries are about 40% smaller than cultivated highbush onesThe United States and Canada together produce roughly half of the world's cultivated blueberriesA 100-gram serving of blueberries contains roughly 160 mg of anthocyaninsLaid end-to-end at 12.7 mm apiece, it would take about 30 billion berries to reach the MoonThe world's largest blueberry weighed 16.2 grams — a Guinness record set in Australia in 2020Wild lowbush blueberries are about 40% smaller than cultivated highbush onesThe United States and Canada together produce roughly half of the world's cultivated blueberries