Rhubarb ideas

Emm-in-a-pickle

Rhubarb and orange `Slump`.
Can`t remember recipe exactly, (shouldn`t matter, should be able to busk it!) but that was the name of the recipe. I found it in a magazine in a hospital waiting room a while back.
Peel and rough chop a couple of oranges, mix with lightly steamed/sweetened rhubarb after draining most of excess juice, and cover with dollops of standard sponge mix, bake like a crumble. Only made this twice as we aren`t a great pudding household but it was really nice, the orange makes all the difference.

westcoastscot

my rhubarb is the pits this year - really small and skinny! any ideas anyone?? am wondering if its come to the end of its productive life, although I recall that they usually just go on and on! its only 6 years old. Am thinking I may need to move it to a more fertile area
WCS

wogglemaker

westcoastscot wrote: »

my rhubarb is the pits this year - really small and skinny! any ideas anyone?? am wondering if its come to the end of its productive life, although I recall that they usually just go on and on! its only 6 years old. Am thinking I may need to move it to a more fertile area
WCS

I think it needs overwintering with a load of manure round it and over it, I seem to remember some of the old boy swhen we had an allotment used to do this.

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My late Dad used to put soot on his rhuebarb over winter and we had huge great clumps of the stuff.What wasn't used in crumbles or pies was made into jam adding some strawberries or raspberries to streeeetch it a bit further.I never tasted shop bought jam until after I was married and when pregnant with my first DD in 1967 had a real craving for bread,butter,chopped up bananas and pineapple jam and my husband used to be only able to buy it for me up in the West End as it wasn't available locally where we lived.Bless him he would make a special trip up to London just to get me a couple of jars.
I haven't eaten bread and jam since although I always have some in to make jam tarts for the grandchildren

westcoastscot

Thanks for the advice - i'll try coddling it over the winter this year

zzzLazyDaisy

Slightly OT, but I hope you won't mind -

When picking rhubarb do you pull the stalks or cut them?

Thanks

exlibris

JackieO wrote: »

What wasn't used in crumbles or pies was made into jam adding some strawberries or raspberries to streeeetch it a bit further.for the

Was watching an old QI this week and they were talking about rhubarb being a substitute for raspberry jam during WW1. Apparently one of the Pankhursts had a campaign against it because there was a trade in making the pips from wood at VERY low wages.

Back on track - Rhubarb and Ginger jam is brilliant. I think I used to make it with ground ginger - the memory is going!

laurals11

Pull the stalks, don't cut as that leaves a bit that can rot if weather is wet which can then damage crown.

MrsCH

I pull stalks and twist off leaves. Easy.
I make rhubard fool like this.
Stew rhubarb with sugar. Make extra thick custard then whizz together with electric whisk (you may not need all the water from the rhubarb). Put into nice sundae dishes and put in fridge to set.

sazzy6

Hi,

I've just pick, washed and chopped 2kg of rhubarb from the garden and need ideas of how to turn them into Christmas gifts.

I was thinking about jam - but need a good recipe that is tried and tested (I never trust a googled recipe until I've tried it and I can't afford to waste the rhubarb)

Also open to other suggestions :beer:

It obviously needs a long shelf life