By now everyone else is looking out the window staring at their rhubarb Gone To Seed.
My main source of rhubarb comes in a pickup truck along with grass clippings, so last July I washed the stalks, diced them into one-inch chunks, and pressed them into quart jars, and boiled them for an hour in my tub.
End result: half a dozen quart jars, each with about 50% rhubarb flesh and 50% rhubarb juice.
Sigh!
I repacked the jars by draining off the juice and cramming flesh in, making just three quart jars, but at least they were full of flesh.
I used a tablespoon of bottled rhubarb flesh in my porridge bowl, ladling pre-cooked porridge on the top, and finished my last jar of rhubarb about a month ago. Very tasty and throughout the winter this kept my hopes and dreams alive.
I shall bottle again this year, especially the delivered rhubarb, but I plan to use my fresh crop as a serious treat of fresh fruit. Maybe even get into (or more correctly, get into me) rhubarb pie!
Cheers
Chris
Here at the end of the earth I have today harvested my first few stalks of the year. They are bigger (length and width) than any I harvested last year, which is a good sign. My goal is to populate the west side of the house with rhubarb, which will benefit from the rain that tumbles off the roof (no eaves-troughs!).Bottling Rhubarb
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Re: Bottling Rhubarb
Before we moved to our present house I had an allotment for a couple of years and the previous tenant left a clump of rhubarb. It was lovely! We had it with ice cream and the missus knocked up some rhubarb and apple crumble a couple of times.
Preserving for adding to porridge is a great idea.
Regards
Graeme
Preserving for adding to porridge is a great idea.
Regards
Graeme
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Re: Bottling Rhubarb
Thanks Graeme.Graeme wrote: ↑23 Oct 2020, 19:02Before we moved to our present house I had an allotment for a couple of years and the previous tenant left a clump of rhubarb. It was lovely! We had it with ice cream and the missus knocked up some rhubarb and apple crumble a couple of times. Preserving for adding to porridge is a great idea.
I learned the other day that I can drink the juice I collected.
I was wondering what to do with it ...
I might cut it 50-50 with my home-made ginger beer.
(later) not bad.
Since rhubarb juice is acidic I suppose too that i could use it to marinatye meat, such as pork steaks.
Cheers
Chris
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