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crumbly
adjective
Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable
synonyms
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3 Use a pastry cutter to cut the butter pieces into the flour mixture until crumbly.
Goreme's ill-protected, crumbly rock dwellings receive no assistance from UNESCO.
Perched on Louie's Ledge, a sharp ridge of trachyte, a white and disconcertingly crumbly volcanic rock that sticks out about 400 metres above the ocean, you can look down on the teeming terns, frigatebirds and boobies of Boatswain Island.
Its size means everyone will get a slice of this bittersweet treat – cleverly preserved with lots of oozy juice by the boy-genius of Bray – in their portion of moist, crumbly pud.
"I've only ever had a few little cuts, mainly from abandoned buildings with crumbly walls and shattered glass everywhere," he says.
Leigh could single-handedly turn salsify into the next It vegetable, and its parsnippy flavour steals the show from the slightly heavy pasta crescents with their pleasantly crumbly cauliflower filling.
With eyes watering in the sharp wind, it was a relief to shelter under a high bank by the river, where dog violet, barren strawberry and thyme clung to the crumbly debris.
But in a pie – well, that's two Great British traditions rolled into one crumbly pastry case.
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