This morning I was despairing at the state of Haddock's, when I noticed that the forcing pot over one of my Rhubarb crowns had lifted itself right off the ground.
When I took it off, this (above) is what I found. A dozen or so stunningly beautiful stems of fresh forced Rhubarb.
Unfortunately Lady Magnon is away playing with grandchildren at the moment, so I shall be deprived of a crumble for a while, but I shall certainly have a few stems just plain cooked with a splash of orange juice and half a teaspoon of sugar.
New season's cooked Rhubarb with a big blob of thick cream...... Oh MATRON!
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Looks good - note to self - must get a rhubarb plant.
A generous helping of Rhubarb and ginger jam every morning made me much wider than I really should be, so I haven't had any for years....that delicious looking rhubarb of yours is great..enjoy!.
Yum, we make it with a kind of floating sponge topping.
Make yourself a crumble... 6oz (old money) flour, 3oz butter, 2oz or less sugar. Rub the fat and the flour through your fine artists fingers until they resemble breadcrumbs, stir in the desired sugar. Place on the top of the uncooked rhubarb and a little sugar and bake.
Crumble Cro.
LLX
P.S. Then breathe not a word on Lady M's return.
Oh those stems look beautiful. I think you have the right of it, plain cooked with a little sweetness. Orange juice as you say, or a liberal splash of vanilla is good too. And cream. There must be cream.
I might just have a go at that, thanks. Having Rhubarb, but no crumble, is giving me the shakes!
So pretty and SO tasty. Hope our plants do well this year.
Very forgiving plants. Our has been mown over, trampled on and peed on (by the dogs!) and yet it thrives :-O
Bake yourself a mini Rhubarb Cromble - just for one!
Right - I'm off to lift my bucket.
I shall do so this weekend.
Reading this, Cro, is like watching someone suck on a lemon, it made my mouth water immediately!
Here we have to be careful what we may find lurking under buckets or in the wood pile.
oh good! our's is under the cloche but hardly astirring! even though I have some yummy clotted cream waiting for it in the fridge.
Your rhubarb looks wonderful! I haven't ventured out to the garden yet to see if mine chose to come back. We've only had the last bit of snow leave in all but the places where it piled up (from ploughing).
Just put rhubarb on my "need" list as I lost my old clumps when I re-landscaped years ago.
Is this early for you to get rhubarb? Everything is late here, but finally, finally, we are seeing some signs of life. Temperatures are rising quite a bit this weekend and we expect sunny skies, so maybe my neighbor's rhubarb will spike out of the ground.
It's beautiful! Looks like time for a rhubarb strawberry pie.
Bosoms is jealous
Looks good and twice the size of my rhubarb - little green horns growing here
Beautiful!
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