Hot cross buns!

[gardener]

Love them! Just made a batch and they are really good

[snoopysue]

Ooh! Haven't eaten those in years.

I've just made rhubarb muffins - not bad if I do say so myself!

[gardener]

Ooh! I saw a recipe for those resently but my rhubarb is a long way off being eaten this year and I don't have any frozen left.

[snoopysue]

Ooh! I saw a recipe for those resently but my rhubarb is a long way off being eaten this year and I don't have any frozen left.

Must admit I bourght it, but it is on my list for when I get my veggie patch up and running!

[gardener]

Nothing wrong with buying it, but the shops here don't have it yet.

[nessa]

Does rhubarb freeze well, never tried and we have loads in the garden, usually have it stewed with custard.

Nessa

[Maths girl]

I am sure you can buy frozen rhubarb so hopefully you can freeze it yourself. I think the one fruit that does not freeze well is strawberries -- something to do with the concentration of water in them I think.

[gardener]

Freezes fine.
I like it oven roasted better than stewed in a pan. Just cut in chunks and sprinkle with some brown sugar, then bake in a hot oven. It is great to do that with plums, poor quality peaches etc, cut in chunks, sprinkle with sugar and tuck under a few bits of vanilla pods. Yum!

[nessa]

Will try freezing some today, does anyone have a recipe for rhubarb jam?

Nessa

[snoopysue]

I always wash, and chop it and then freeze it in the quantities required for my cake recipies!

[Antie Em]

I just love rhubarb crumble

[snoopysue]

I just love rhubarb crumble

Mouth watering just thinking about it! Luckily I've got a couple of rhubarb muffins left, they need eating up as they'll be past their best soon. (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!)

[cid]

I just love rhubarb crumble

Mouth watering just thinking about it! Luckily I've got a couple of rhubarb muffins left, they need eating up as they'll be past their best soon. (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!)

Rhubarb Muffins sound delicious, any chance you could post the recipe Snoops?

We have loads in the garden. Rhubard - not muffins

[snoopysue]

My muffin recipe is off the internet and american. A better recipe is this one for rhubarb cake, it's got sultanas in it which my husband doesn't like, hence the muffins! I don't know where this recipe came from, but it's definately one of our family favorites!

Rhubarb Cake

150g flour
2 tsp baking powder (I think the original recipe just had selfraising flour and no baking powder, but I can't get that in Denmark)
75g margerine or butter
100g caster sugar
1 large egg
200g rhubarb
100g sultanas (alternative stoned chopped dates)
about 4tbsp milk
extra butter for greasing tin

18cm round cake tin

Brush tin with melted butter, line bottom and sides with greaseproof paper and brush with butter.
Sift flour into a bowl add the chopped butter and rub into the flour. Stir in the sugar.
Wash rhubarb, wipe it dry and cut into small cubes. Stir into the mixture together with the sultanas.
Bind together with the egg and milk. Put into the tin, hollowing out the center slightly.
Bake on the centre shelf of a preheated oven 185 degrees centegrade for 1.5 to 2 hours or until it has stopped making a singing or sizzling sound. Cool in the tin for about 15 mins before turning out and cooling on a wire tray.

It's definately better the day after it's been baked as the juice from the rhubarb seaps into the cake. I've also used the mixture for muffins. I cut the rhubarb smaller and filled the cases about 3/4 full. They quicker to bake, timing depends on size of muffin cases, but somewhere between 10 and 20 mins as a rough estimate.

[expat66]

I like strawberry and rhubarb pie... the tartness of the rhubarb balances with the sweetness of the strawberries..yum!
Expat