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Here's a rhubarb upside-down cake that's very pretty on the plate and is just the right amount of tart/sweet, smooth/crunchy.
Rhubarb Upside-down Cake
Melt 2T. butter and 1/2 C. white sugar in 8"x8' pan. Top with 2 C. diced rhubarb.
In bowl pour 2/3 C. boiling water over 1/2 C. quick cooking oatmeal. Let rest covered for 20 minutes.
In another bowl mix 1 C. flour, 1 t. baking powder, 1/4 t. salt, 1/4 t. baking soda, 1/2 t. cinnamon, 2/3 C. white sugar, 1/2 C. brown sugar, 1/4 oil and 1 egg.
Add to oatmeal and stir. I add a half cup of walnuts to this. Pour gently over rhubarb.
Bake at 350 degrees for about fifty minutes. Test that a toothpick comes out clean.
Cool 5 minutes. Run knife around edges and invert on serving plate. I leave it a few minutes to make sure all the oozy goodness drips down. Then lift the baking pan.
This is good warm with ice cream or whipped cream but also delicious all by itself.
We use to grow Rhubarb in our garden when I was a child , we’d get a handful of sugar go around breaking off the sticks of Rhubarb dip it in the sugar , no washing it , ate it straight out the ground .
We use to grow Rhubarb in our garden when I was a child , we’d get a handful of sugar go around breaking off the sticks of Rhubarb dip it in the sugar , no washing it , ate it straight out the ground .
We did too. Some prefered the savory route and used salt. Rhubarb ala essence of canine. Only we wiped it on our pants leg to sterilize it. Just like every good pet owner worms their dog in season every mother in my neighborhood wormed their kids in the summer time.
Good health practice then when we were free range. Now it sounds like TMI.
We did too. Some prefered the savory route and used salt. Rhubarb ala essence of canine. Only we wiped it on our pants leg to sterilize it. Just like every good pet owner worms their dog in season every mother in my neighborhood wormed their kids in the summer time.
Good health practice then when we were free range. Now it sounds like TMI.
I agree! Lol
Yep everyone in our neighborhood had a garden back then and it was common to see kids in gardens .... eating. We would pull rhubarb, carrots, radishes, and graze on berries, fruits, and anything that didn't require cooking. Was it washed? Never, just a swipe or two on our pants and if the dirt was gone it's ready to eat! Now our mothers had a whole different idea on if was clean or not.
That sounds delicious. Was the rhubarb poached and served on top of the custard or stirred right into it? I think I'd like that.
Something old-fashioned DH likes that I do also is tapioca pudding. I keep thinking that it would be very good with rhubarb. He says not to mess with his tapioca.
My MIL used to make a cobbler of sorts on top of the stove. Probably a Depression recipe. She'd drop sweet flour dumplings into simmering rhubarb sauce. DH has requested it every year. For some reason the dumplings no longer hold together when I do it. I'm still following her old recipe. Something has changed.
One year I made a huge batch for him to share at work and people liked it. I'm indifferent to it. It's heavy and filling. Just like it's supposed to be, I guess.
A rhubarb story: A few years ago we went on vacation and when we got home it was apparent that someone had dug out of our rhubarb plants and pilfered it. Hmm. Had to be one of the neighbors. No one else would even know they are out there behind the garage.
But we've got, and have had for years, really good neighbors. And If they planted it in their yard (in spite of being "good neighbors") it wouldn't be difficult to take a cruise around the neighborhood and see where someone had just planted a new plant.
A mystery. And irritating. But I have to think the way we all watch out for each other around here that whoever it was would have had to sneak ninja style in the wee hours of the morning with a good-sized container and shovel. And I have to chuckle a bit at the hijinx. And ultimately no harm done. This year we just divided our older one and replaced the missing one.
Still what's with these people poor of spirit who have so little sense of community that they don't even trust that if they'd have asked I would have split one for them? (I figured out who it was. Our newest neighbors, of course. How bright was that? After a couple of decades of community I now have a neighbor I don't trust all over a lousy rhubarb plant.)
That sounds delicious. Was the rhubarb poached and served on top of the custard or stirred right into it? I think I'd like that.
Something old-fashioned DH likes that I do also is tapioca pudding. I keep thinking that it would be very good with rhubarb. He says not to mess with his tapioca.
My MIL used to make a cobbler of sorts on top of the stove. Probably a Depression recipe. She'd drop sweet flour dumplings into simmering rhubarb sauce. DH has requested it every year. For some reason the dumplings no longer hold together when I do it. I'm still following her old recipe. Something has changed.
One year I made a huge batch for him to share at work and people liked it. I'm indifferent to it. It's heavy and filling. Just like it's supposed to be, I guess.
A rhubarb story: A few years ago we went on vacation and when we got home it was apparent that someone had dug out of our rhubarb plants and pilfered it. Hmm. Had to be one of the neighbors. No one else would even know they are out there behind the garage.
But we've got, and have had for years, really good neighbors. And If they planted it in their yard (in spite of being "good neighbors") it wouldn't be difficult to take a cruise around the neighborhood and see where someone had just planted a new plant.
A mystery. And irritating. But I have to think the way we all watch out for each other around here that whoever it was would have had to sneak ninja style in the wee hours of the morning with a good-sized container and shovel. And I have to chuckle a bit at the hijinx. And ultimately no harm done. This year we just divided our older one and replaced the missing one.
Still what's with these people poor of spirit who have so little sense of community that they don't even trust that if they'd have asked I would have split one for them? (I figured out who it was. Our newest neighbors, of course. How bright was that? After a couple of decades of community I now have a neighbor I don't trust all over a lousy rhubarb plant.)
The rhubarb was just heated up in a pot with sugar served in a bowl with warm custard on top .
I love rhubarb. But this thread made me sad, bc I have so much trouble growing rhubarb. I have killed existing, transplanted and purchased rhubarb plants more times than I can count. (probably not enough sun) So my garden has no rhubarb. I've been grocery shopping every two weeks, today was the day and the grocery had no rhubarb either, so I am double sad.
But OT, I love just straight up rhubarb simmered with a bit of sugar and water and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Lodestar, that's a shame about the rhubarb theft.. But I read on the Maine forum (thread title - "shipping container") about a guy who had 15 cords of cut and split hardwood stolen from his property while he was quarantined down south.
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