Well I have a confession.. .as I was eating it.. I thought.. what the dickens we we eat this stuff for? I only made it because someone gave me the rhubarb.
Maybe it's kinda like the quince tree that I had in my yard a long time ago. I never had to worry about the neighborhood kids stealing the fruit!! :)
I've never grown rhubarb, so I don't know how hardy it is, but my ancestry is English and my Mother was always fixing rhubarb or strawberry/rhubarb pie. Maybe it's inexpensive compared to other vegetables ... don't know.
Yes, that could be it.. very inexpensive.. you plant it and it lives for ages and ages... years.. and you can cut it often and it grows more stalks.. so very inexpensive.. one of the first things to fruit if that's the correct term as it's not strictly speaking a fruit.
The secret is you put in half a ton of sugar in the rhubarb. Some people do that while it's cooking, others do that when the rhubarb gets put into the dish.. Then there's another half a ton of sugar in the crumble topping oh and more sugar in the custard.. All very healthy :P
I made two rhubarb crumbles this evening and I just wondered - it seems so natural to make it, I wonder if we are the only ones.
Strangely I bought some rhubarb this afternoon.......I love all sour fruits and eat nothing thats ripe and over sweet..... is that your Dog Jack.... .?
I bet that must have be quite a lifting experience to get to grips with.....myself I'm stuck on reading a book about glue... I just can't seem to put it down...:)
I love rhubarb anything. I swear, it is the best. I just had some yogurt that had strawberry/rhubarb swirled through it and it was thick, like Greek style. Oh man. I was enchanted.
I love strawberry/rhubarb pie, cobbler, just anything with a crust or ice cream even.
The end.
Yes. We grow both rhubarb and strawberry here and of course, can manage the crumble part as well.
I think this one's pumpkin, but I didn't have any rhubarb one's saved.
Hmm... Something like it, I think. We used to grow rhubarb in our garden when I was growing up- my whole family did. My grandma used to mostly do rhubarb pie, but my mom would make coffee cake- looks similar to your photo. It would be covered in brown sugar.
Benedict Arnold 