Don’t know much about rhubarb? Get the lowdown on this puckery tart vegetable with this Rhubarb 101!
Growing up with rhubarb, and a mom who especially adored this plant on the farm, I thought that everyone knew about it. What it looked like and how it tasted. And I just presumed that every recipe box in the country included at least a few well used recipe cards that glorified this humble plant, most likely in their grandmother’s handwriting.
But ever since I shared the first rhubarb recipe on the blog (my mother-in-law’s rhubarb nut coffee cake), just a few weeks after a farmgirl’s dabbles was born in 2010, I realized how wrong I was. So I’m here to talk about all things rhubarb with this Rhubarb 101!
I created this Rhubarb 101 for The Pioneer Woman’s website, where I am a regular contributor to Ree’s Food & Friends section. Click here to read the full post on The Pioneer Woman’s site, and to grab my mom’s recipe for her super simple rhubarb sauce. It’s one of my dad’s favorite springtime dessert toppers!
Here is more rhubarb inspiration for you!
- Grandma Renelt’s Rhubarb Custard Pie
- Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Bars
- Raspberry Rhubarb Crumb Cake
- Rhubarb Mojitos
- Rhubarb Vanilla Bean Jelly from Simple Bites
- Rhubarb Coffee Cake from Food for my Family
- Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake from Martha Stewart
Rhubarb Love … Rhubarb Compote, rhubarb soup or rhubarb-strawberry soup – served ice cold in the summer.., rhubarb jam, rhubarb-strawberry jam, rhubarb cakes and pies in all sort …..
I’m really looking foreward to the season here in Scandinavia:-))
Love rhubarb, it’s my favorite part of spring. We actually just planted some on the side of the house, hoping next year it yields something!Â
Off to grab this immediately!!
i love rhubarb and wish I could get it all year long!!
Great info! I need to use rhubarb more often! Thanks for the inspiration!
I too grew up in eastern SD and my mom always made rhubarb custard pie. I made one the other day and my husband and I ate the  whole thing in a couple of days. It was so good! She also made a rhubarb cake that was very good. That is why I have to walk, walk, walk! Ha!
I wish the hubby liked rhubarb. I MUST find an excuse to make a rhubarb pie! My mom made the best pie and sauce :)
Love rhubarb! But then I am an Iowa farm girl!
Thanks for the great info! Â I think everyone should try Rhubarb at least once to experience it!
Not able to grow rhubarb here in Texas :{