Discovery

Always make sure you have enough flour for your butter when you intend to make crumble topping. Insufficient butter means that on rubbing in you will obtain a single large sticky mass rather than fine breadcrumbs.

Clearly this happened to me yesterday owing to a lack of flour - was sure I had a fresh bag somewhere, but clearly not! In the end my sticky mass was put to good use and went on top of the not-quite-crumble anyways; addition of lots of sugar has helped in this regard. It's more like a rich (very rich) pastry top, but lacks that crunch crumble-ness. At any rate, flour is on the shopping list.

Today at work is a day of lectures. I'm looking forward to it, since my own work is a bit tedious at the moment.