I * Love * Rhubarb -- 5 Fabulous Recipes!

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Oh yes, I truly love rhubarb as the tart taste of rhubarb cannot be equalled.

Growing up in Northeastern Ohio, we grew quite a variety of fruits and vegetables in our backyard garden. Corn and green beans grew quite well for us, but I can't help but remember the fabulously hearty stalks of rhubarb that our garden produced!

It had been quite a while since I had a rhubarb pie, but this past Easter we had the opportunity. I found a rhubarb-strawberry pie at our local Fresh Market. I wanted to surprise my mother with it as an accompaniment to the honey-roasted ham I bought. Well, when we showed up at her house, she already had a humongous honey-roasted ham that dwarfed ours. But, she didn't have such a pie! And, to top it off, she had some visitors who confessed that rhubarb was their favorite!

Well ... I personally love the taste of rhubarb or any such fruit or vegetable that has that tangy, tart taste. I'm not much into sweets ya know!

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Is rhubarb a part of your life? 

For Easter, I gifted a rhubarb-strawberry pie to my mom!

Yes, that pie brought back fond childhood memories of our vegetable and fruit garden in Cleveland. You see, rhubarb was one of the healthiest products that we grew!



Do you love the taste of rhubarb?

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Yes, I love it and am a big fan!

Evelyn_Saenz says:

I love making strawberry-rhubarb pies each summer in Vermont. Summer just wouldn't be the same without them.

alteredkat says:

luv luv luv it!

JaguarJulie says:

Yes, Zut_Moon, I am a big fan of rhubarb. My mom loved that rhubarb pie we brought her for mother's day. Just waiting for my mom to FIND this debate so that she can also weigh in. She / we grew the biggest rhubarb in our vegetable garden in Cleveland, Ohio way back when. Yep, I love rhubarb in jam and pies. It tastes so good.

Nope, I never acquired a taste for it.

Zut_Moon says:

No ..can't say I do except that rhubarb and strawberry do go well together.. either pie or jam works well for me. Sad thing is both our next-door neighbour and we have it growing crazy in our yards. Jane makes rhubarb strawberry jam for the other neighbours and they don't even know there is rhubarb in it.

I ticked no because I don't like it just by itself ...

 
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Rhubarb FAQs 

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Rhubarb is a group of plants that belong to the genus Rheum in the family Polygonaceae. They are perennial plants that grow from thick short rhizomes, and have large leaves that are somewhat triangular shaped with long fleshy petioles. The flowers are small, greenish-white to rose-red, and grouped in large compound leafy inflorescences. A number of varieties of rhubarb have been domesticated both as medicinal plants and for human consumption, most of them are recognised as Rheum x hybridum by the Royal Horticultural Society's. While the leaves are toxic, the stalks are used in pies and other foods for their tart flavour.

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Rhubarb Pie according to Martha Stewart 

Pie Dough, or your favorite prepared crust (and skip steps 1 and 2
All-purpose flour, for dusting
1 3/4 pounds (about 6 cups) rhubarb, ends trimmed, cut crosswise into 3/4-inch pieces
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Pinch of salt
Crumble Topping

Directions:
1. Place the pie dough on a floured piece of parchment paper. Using your knuckles, press edges of dough to help prevent cracking. Roll out dough to a 14-inch round.

2. Use the parchment to lift and wrap dough around rolling pin; carefully unroll over a 9-inch pie plate. Gently fit dough into bottom and sides of plate, being careful not to stretch or tear. Using kitchen shears, trim dough to a 1-inch overhang; fold under, and press gently to seal. Crimp edges if desired. Refrigerate 1 hour.

3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. with rack in lowest level. In a large bowl, toss rhubarb with sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Pour into pie shell; sprinkle with Crumble Topping. Place pie on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet.

4. Place pie in oven; reduce heat to 375 degrees. Bake until topping is browned and crust is lightly browned, about 1 1/2 hours. (If topping or crust begins to brown too quickly, tent with foil.) Cool completely before serving. --www.marthastewart.com.

Glazed Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie recipe 

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Ingredients:
1 1/4 c Sugar
1/8 ts Salt
1/3 c Flour
2 c Fresh strawberries
2 c Fresh rhubarb, cut in 1" pieces
2 T Butter or margarine
1 T Sugar
1 Pastry for 2-crust pie

Procedure:
Combine 1 1/4 cup sugar, salt, and flour. Arrange half the strawbwerries and rhubarb in a pastry-lined 9 inch pie pan. Sprinkle with half the sugar mixture. Repeat with remaining fruit and sugar mixture. Dot with butter. Install top crust and flute edges to make high-standing rim. Brush top of pie with cold water and sprinkle on 1 tablespoon sugar. Cut steam vents in top crust. Bake in hot oven (425 F) 40 to 50 minutes or until rhubarb is tender and crust is browned. --www.rhubarbinfo.com.

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Rhubarb pie FAQs 

Rhubarb pie is a pie that is particularly popular in those areas where the rhubarb plant is commonly cultivated, including the British Isles and the New England region of the United States. Besides diced rhubarb, it almost always contains a large amount of sugar to balance the intense tartness of the plant. Rhubarb Pie is often eaten together with ice cream.

In Canada and the United States strawberry-rhubarb pie is a popular late-spring pie, generally combining the last rhubarb of the season with the first of the strawberries.

Rhubarb Strawberry Jam recipe 

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Ingredients:
1 cup cooked red-stalked rhubarb (about 1 lb rhubarb and 1/4 cup water)
2 and 1/2 cups crushed strawberries (about 1 and 1/2 quart boxes)
6 and 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 bottle liquid pectin

Procedure:
Wash rhubarb and slice thin or chop; do not peel. Add water, cover, and simmer til tender. (about 1 minute)
Sort and wash fully ripe strawberries; remove stems and caps. Crush berries.
Measure prepared rhubarb and strawberries into a kettle. Add sugar and stir well. Place on high heat and, stirring constantly, bring quickly to a full boil with bubbles over the entire surface. Boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in pectin. Skim.
Fill and seal containers. Process 5 minutes in boiling water bath.

Yield - 7 or 8 half-pint jars. --www.rhubarbinfo.com.

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Rhubarb cooler recipe 

Ingredients:
7 cups water
10 cups rhubarb, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1 1/2 cups sugar (less if desired)
12 ounces orange juice, frozen, undiluted
12 ounces lemonade, frozen, undiluted
1 quart ginger ale, lemon lime soda or champagne
1 quart strawberries, for garnish

Directions:
Fill sauce pan with 7 cups of water.
Wash rhubarb and place in pan with water. Cook over medium heat until rhubarb is very soft, cool. Strain, reserving juice. Discard pulp that remains in the strainer.
Add sugar to the reserved juice. Cook on low heat until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat, cool slightly.
Add frozen orange juice and lemonade, stir until dissolved. Refrigerate until ready to use.
To serve: Fill 1/2 glass with ginger ale, lemon lime soda or champagne. Fill to top with rhubarb mixture. Garnish with fresh strawberry.

--www.recipetips.com.

Rhubarb Parfait -- beautiful presentation!

Rhubarb Parfait recipe 

Doesn't that look just yummy?

Ingredients:
2 kilos rhubarb to make 1/4 pt of puree
9 egg yolks
200 gms caster sugar
1/4 pt double cream
1/4 pt rhubarb puree
3 leaves of gelatine
100 mls Sauternes
15 gms trimolene (or glucose)

Chocolate sauce:
300 gms dark chocolate
200 gms cocoa butter

To make rhubarb puree: Peel rhubarb and chop small. Cook down with the wine and 50 gms of sugar until the rhubarb is soft. Place into muslin, tie with string and allow the juice to drain retaining the juice - the resulting puree should be quite dry.

To make rhubarb sauternes sorbet: Take the rhubarb juice and add 15 gms of trimolene (or glucose). Freeze in a sorbet machine or container.

Mix the egg yolks in an electric mixer with balloon whisk on medium speed for 10 to12 minutes until light in colour and doubled in size. Put the sugar in a thick bottomed pan, cover with cold water (approx _ pint) and boil to 120 degrees to soft ball stage. Beating egg mixture very slowly pour in the hot syrup. Continue to beat slowly for 30 seconds. Turn back up to full speed and whisk for a further 5 minutes. This will cook the eggs.

Soak the gelatine in cold water. Heat approximately 50 mls of the rhubarb syrup and dissolve the gelatine in it. Pour this mixture into the puree and fold into the egg mixture.

Whip the cream very lightly but keep to a pouring consistency. Fold the cream into egg and puree mixture, set some aside and pour the remainder into moulds (preferably half sphere). Skim the top with a palette knife and freeze. After a couple of hours top up each mould with some of the reserved mixture, still keeping some back. Freeze for at least 8 hours.

To make the chocolate sauce: Mix 10_ ounces (300g) dark Valrhona chocolate with 7 ounces (200g) cocoa butter. Melt the chocolate gently in a bowl over hot water.

Take out and scoop a "parisienne" out of the centre of each mould and fill with the remaining puree. If using spheres put two together and spray with chocolate.

To serve: Lift out 5 minutes prior to serving to allow the parfait to begin to soften. Serve with the rhubarb sorbet. --www.chocolatetradingco.com.

Rhubarb technically speaking 

Rheum species are herbaceous perennials with hermaphrodite flowers, consisting of a colored perianth, composed of six to nine segments, arranged in two rows.

The flowers have nine stamina inserted on the torus at the base of the peranthium, they are free or subconnatent at their base. The ovary is simple and triangular shaped with three styles.

The fruits are a three-sided caryupsis with winged sides, the seeds are albuminous and have straight embryos.

Rhubarb grows from rhizomes 

Category: File - :Euphorbia rhizophora2 ies.jpg|thumb|A Euphorbia plant sending out rhizomes

Category: Image - :Iris rhizome p1150371.jpg|thumb|An iris rhizome growing above ground

In botany, a rhizome (from , , "root-stalk") is a characteristically horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes may also be referred to as creeping rootstalks, or rootstocks.

A stolon is similar to a rhizome, but, unlike a rhizome, which is the main stem of the plant, a stolon sprouts from an existing stem, has long internodes, and generates new shoots at the end, e.g., the strawberry plant. In general, rhizomes have short internodes; they send out roots from the bottom of the nodes and new upward-growing shoots from the top of the nodes. It is a method of reproduction for plants. A stem tuber is a thickened part of a rhizome or stolon that has been enlarged for use as a storage organ.Kingsley R. Stern Introductory Plant Biology, 10th ed. ISBN 0072909412 In general, a tuber is high in starch, for example, the common potato, which is a modified stolon. The term tuber is often used imprecisely, and is sometimes applied to plants with rhizomes.

Some plants have rhizomes that grow above ground or that lie at the soil surface, including some Iris species, and ferns, whose spreading stems are rhizomes. Plants with underground rhizomes include ginger, bamboo, the Venus Flytrap, Chinese lantern, Western poison-oak,C.Michael Hogan (2008) Western poison-oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum, GlobalTwitcher, ed. Nicklas Stromberg [http://globaltwitcher.auderis.se/artspec_information.asp?thingid=82914] hops, and turmeric, and the weeds Johnson grass, bermuda grass, and purple nut sedge. Rhizomes generally form a single layer, but in Giant Horsetails, can be multi-tieredHusby, C: Ecology and Physiology of the Giant Horsetails, [http://www.fiu.edu/~chusb001/GiantEquisetum/Ecophysiology.html].

For many plants, the rhizome is used by farmers and gardeners to propagate the plants by a process known as vegetative reproduction. Examples of plants that are propagated this way include hops, asparagus, ginger, irises, Lily of the Valley, Cannas, and sympodial orchids.

Rhubarb's long fleshy petioles are used for food 

In botany, the petiole ("pet-ee-ohl"; from Latin petiolus, or peciolus "little foot," "stem", an alternate diminutive of pes "foot." The regular diminutive pediculus is also used for "foot stalk") is the small stalk attaching the leaf blade to the stem. The petiole usually has the same internal structure as the stem. Outgrowths appearing on each side of the petiole are called stipules. Leaves lacking a petiole are called sessile, or clasping when they partly surround the leaf. Clasping leaves of the Poaceae have an extra structure called the ligule.

Strange and curious facts about rhubarb 

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It is or was common for a crowd of extras in acting to shout the word "rhubarb" repeatedly and out of step with each other, to cause the effect of general hubbub. As a result, the word "rhubarb" sometimes is used to mean "length of superfluous text in speaking or writing", or a general term to refer to irrelevant chatter by chorus or extra actors.

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Great rhubarb books 

Life's Little Rhubarb Cookbook: 101 Rhubarb Recipes (Cooking at Its Best from Avery Color Studios) by Joan Bestwick

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Rhubarb links 

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Rhubarb Compendium
An awesome resource that Dan has made available online since June 1994. Information from his growing experience!
Rhubarb Pie Recipes
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Rhubarb Recipes
This is an absolute compendium of terrific recipes for preparing rhubarb-anything!

I love Rhubarb video 

I Love Rhubarb

My favourite jingle from childhood was the deep voice that said ONE NINE FOUR on Capital Radio. As the new catchphrase on Johnny's show is "I love rhubarb,", I have brought the two together. Enjoy.

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