[Ina]

We always had rhubarb juice when I was a kid, made with a steam juicer.

That's what I make - litres of the stuff.... my favourite home-made juice!

Must be a German thing...

Definitely - most people do not understand a word if I talk about my steam juicer...

I've brought our old one with me - nobody else in the family wanted it; but these days I don't make juice, as it does need quite a bit of sugar and I've gone off sweet stuff. Don't think I'll find a taker for it, though - or is anybody here interested? Would be difficult to send, though.

[Clarebelle]

Well, I harvested some rhubarb and made a crumble. Unfortunately my kids didn't like it, i think it was too tart for them. Maybe i'll try a jam

[Somewhere_by_the_river]

How old are the kids? Mum always used to set some stewed and sweetened rhubarb into orange jelly for us when we were young - I can almost taste it now 

[Clarebelle]

They are 3 and 4. My eldest, who is 7, like it but the littlies said they didn't. Rhubarb and orange sounds yummy!

[Lesley Silvester]

That reminds me, I have some rhubarb in raspberry jelly in the fridge. I feel a snack coming on. 

[Ina]

Rhubarb and orange sounds yummy!

If you stew the rhubarb with a little orange peel (from an organic orange, otherwise it's just all chemicals), you can considerably cut down on sugar - it cuts the acid. I don't put any sugar in these days.

[Bionic]

I'm not a great rhubarb fan but feel that I should eat it to do me some good so I usually stew it with something else. Plum or apple, or both together with the rhubarb work well. You can often get a punnet of plums for £1 in the supermarkets so it doesn't work out too expensive.


I always add sweetener rather than sugar too as I am forever on a diet 

[MischieMoo]

You can make a tasty rhubarb chutney

[Fleecewife]

You can make a tasty rhubarb chutney

I'm about to try rhubarb chutney - do you have the recipe for yours MischieMoo?

I measured my rhubarb sticks today - 2'/60cms long.  Usually my crop has been blasted to kingdom come in the gales by this time, so I want to make as much as I can before that happens.

[ballingall]

Thanks for the ideas all- some great recipes. I like the ice cream recipe, and tempted to try the wine.


Also curious about the juice- how do you make it?


I found a recipe online for pan fried pork chops cooked with rhubarb an Marsala wine. Had that last night and it was lovely!


http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/15/rhubarb-recipes-10-best


The pork chops are the sixth one down.


Beth

[Ina]

Also curious about the juice- how do you make it?

You need  steam juicer for that - if you've never seen one, google it, there's loads on the web. Basically, you steam the chopped rhubarb and collect the resulting juice, sugar it and fill it boiling hot into bottles which are then sealed.

[Greenerlife]

Had a look at that Guardian link and there are some fantastic recipes there - got the ginger and rhubarb bars cooking now. 


Am going to look more at that. Guardian site as I cooked a few recipes from their "10 best cauliflower recipes" which inspired me a couple of weeks ago, see what else will inspire me! (Hope it's not fattening)

[MischieMoo]

I'll look out the recipe for the chutney for you Fleecewife, just got to remember where I put it!

[Treud na Mara]

I put my recipe for rhubarb,orange and ginger cordial on the drinks bit of the forum. Highly recommended.

[sabrina]

I love it in crumble, tarts and eves pudding. Make jam and also freeze.