Old Fashioned Rhubarb Recipes

susannaduffy by susannaduffy
Last updated: 02/09/2012

Recipes with Rhubarb, Forgotten Treasure from the Garden

Are you guilty of having a rhubarb plant, untended, unloved and uneaten in the bottom of your garden? Have you seen bunches of rhubarb for sale and wondered what to do with them?

Lots of people associate rhubarb with pies but there's a lot more to rhubarb than a pastry crust..

Rhubarb is an exciting sauce over chicken or seafood. gives spice to pancakes, zing to muffins and tart sweetness to a crepe. As jam it spreads on scones, as juice it gives a boost to white rum, and it's a heavenly sauce on ice cream.

And a garden just isn't a garden without a big clump of rhubarb.

Basic Rhubarb recipe

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First cook your rhubarb!

What you need

25g - 1oz butter
25g - 1oz caster sugar
1 lime, zest and juice only
75g - 2¾oz cooked rhubarb, finely chopped
1 tsp chopped fresh mint
3 large scoops vanilla ice cream
50g - 1¾oz sultanas
50g - 1¾oz almonds, chopped

What you do

Melt the butter and sugar together with the lime juice and zest. Tip in the rhubarb and cook for three minutes. It should be soft and warm by then. Add the chopped mint and set aside to cool.

Spoon a scoop of the ice cream into the base of a tall glass. Sprinkle over a third of the sultanas and nuts, and a third of the cooled rhubarb. Repeat the layering until all ingredients are used up. Stick in a mint sprig and serve straightaway.

Peach and Rhubarb Dessert

My elderly neighbour gave me this recipe, basically a Crumble made with oats.

She suggested I could use tinned peaches if I had no fresh fruit, but I haven't seen a tin of peaches in a long time. They tend to be all exported these days.

Her recipe also contained real oats, not the pre-cooked kind, and directed that they be soaked overnight. So I've made a slight adjustment to the oats in the recipe here.

Serve this dish warm with vanilla ice cream.

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The rhubarb, ginger and honey mix is also delicious chilled, served with Greek yoghurt.

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