What to do with rhubarb

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Picked up some rhubarb but am looking for some inspiration instead of a standard crumble!

Any rhubarb recipes?

rhubarb and almonds cake

Make rhubarb gin or vodka

Yes that cake is amazing!

Goes well with duck if you fancy something savoury.

My mother makes a gorgeous rhubarb bakewell tart.

Google Nigella recipes. She has a thing for rhubarb.

Rhubarb cheesecake!

Didn’t think about booze!

Bakewell tart sounds interesting!

Chop stems.
Couple of tablespoons water/orange juice (max)
Gently simmer

Could add fresh ginger / vanilla etc...

Makes excellent compot for Greek yogurt

Rhubarb and orange compote.
Rhubarb fool, quick and easy.
Rhubarb clafoutis.

I do a coconut cream thingy with rhubarb

2 sheets leaf gelatine
400 ml can coconut milk
6 tablespoons caster sugar
1-2 teaspoon vanilla extract

put gelatine into a bowl and cover with cold water and soak five mins
heat coconut milk with 2 tbs sugar, heat to simmering and take pan off heat. Put the gelatine leaves in and stir until dissolved and pour inot small glass dishes. Cool and then refrigerate
Poach rhubarb with remaining sugar and 2 tbs water until softened. When cool spoon over coconut creams...looks very pretty and tastes lovely

forgot the bliddy rhubarb...you need about 300g and it looks better if you use red slender stems

Rhubarb and ginger jam is lovely

1.5 litres of standard/cheap gin
1 packet of rhubarb

Pour gin into a jug or bowl (glass or ceramic, not plastic or metal as it might taint)
Chop rhubarb into 1cm pieces and add to the gin.
Cover.
Stir once or twice a day, and leave for 3-4 days.

Pour it back into the bottle, using a muslin to filter it.

(You can also do the same thing but using a couple of punnets of raspberries instead of the gin)

Dip it in sugar and suck it.

chopped small into a curry

bread&butter pudding with stewed rhubarb & bananas

or just stewed with custard

or just stewed with custard

or cream.

Make a rhubarb syrup and have it with prosecco - yum!

Last week I picked loads from my garden and made rhubarb compote & spicy rhubarb chutney 😍 the chutney was to die for!

I do fruit in the oven. Rhubarb, slivers of orange peel, big enough to remove, but I like eating them, water/juice if I have it, sugar. Means I don't have to stand over the hob watching it and the pieces keep their shape.

Itwent Is rhubarb easy to grow? I remember a childhood friend having a huge patch of it in her garden and being sent home with bagfuls of it each year so guess it's fairly easy? I'd like to try growing it.

enid in the right conditions it really grows well. but takes a year or two to take hold.
they need a lot of moisture and light and a literal shitload of manure each autumn.

Depends where you are in the country enid. I live in the epicentre of the Rhubarb Triangle in West Yorkshire and we have the optimum cold wet conditions that rhubarb thrives on. It literally grows like weeds here.

But if you are in a warmer, drier part of the country, it might not fare too well.

We planted it a sunny spot in hertfordshire, against a wall. Oh, this probably won’t come to anything we thought. Might as well plant three, maybe one will survive we thought. Bugger, forgot to manure it or cover it from frosts, well that’s that we thought.

It’s like a rhubarb jungle down there. You can hardly move for rhubarb. I’m pretty sure i saw a herd of stegosaurus grazing in the outer reaches. Turns out it’s not just easy to grow, it’s impossible to STOP growing rhubarb.

Cumbria Barbara, so if it's cold and wet they like, it should do well. Interesting that it takes a couple of years, good to know green. Hopefully by then it's a big crop. And that sounds really promising Rubai. Think I'll give it a go. Read it was Autumn you should start so enough time to read up on it. Maybe in two or three years time I'll be dishing out huge bag loads to the neighbours.