Rhubarb Season
March 11, 2015
Yum, it's rhubarb season! One of my favourites. I love the it's pinky green hue and how delicious it is with vanilla. We're hoping that we'll have a big supply from our allotment this year but Ben's mum always has an abundance to give away with leaves bigger than our heads. What are your best ways to use it? Here are a few of mine..
The easiest way to prepare it is to cut the stalks, with scissors, into 3cm long pieces and put into a roasting tray with some vanilla extract and a sprinkle of sugar. Cover it with foil and roast in the oven at around 180c for 20 minutes. It will be heavenly after as a compote with overnight oats for breakfast, on it's own with some with vanilla ice cream or in a crumble with custard.
This crumble cake recipe is always a winner too, a sponge layered with rhubarb and then topped with a crumble topping and brown sugar. It was from the Sainsbury's magazine a few years ago and is great for an afternoon tea or warm for dessert with ice cream or custard.
300g rhubarb
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
165g self-raising flour
175g unsalted butter, plus a little extra for greasing
175g caster sugar
3 large free range eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
For the crumble topping
50g unsalted butter
4 tbsp self raising flour
2 tbsp caster sugar
2 tsp ground ginger
Preheat the oven to 180c/gas 4. Grease a square cake tin and line with baking paper
Trim the rhubarb and chop into 3cm pieces, I use scissors it's easier. Place in a bowl with the lemon juice. In a separate bowl beat together the flour, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
For the topping, rub the butter into the flour then stir in the sugar and ginger. Sprinkle over the cake mixture.
Bake for 40-50 minutes until a skewer inserted into the sponge comes out clean. Leave to cool slightly and then serve, cutting into squares.
Yum!!
R <3 xx
R <3 xx
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Hi Rebecca, It's good to find a fellow rhubarb lover, so many people have an aversion to it! One of my favourite rhubarb recipes is for rhubarb crumble ice cream from Delia Smith's Summer Collection. It's always gone in one sitting! Let me know if you'd like the recipe. A
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