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    Home » Articles » Cooking - Recipes

    How to grow rhubarb & a rhubarb crisp recipe : GardenFork.TV

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 3 Comments

    Growing and Cooking Rhubarb was one of the first how to videos GardenFork made, and as our rhubarb plants are just now popping out of the cold soil, I thought it a good time to pull one of our shows from the archive and repost it for those who may not have watched it.

    Eric's Rhubarb Crisp Recipe

    1 quart of rhubarb chopped into roughly ½" pieces

    ¼ cup sugar ( you can add more if you like, but i think this works best )

    Zest from ½ of a large lemon or all of it from a small lemon ( you can also use orange zest of a mix of lemon and orange ) and some juice from the lemon or orange.

    ¾ of a stick of butter, cold ( leave in fridge until you need it )

    ½ cup flour

    ¾ cup brown sugar

    ½ cup walnuts

    ½ cup oatmeal - old fashioned style, rolled oats is best

    ½ teaspoon cinnamon - Penzy's Spice has real good cinnamon

    mix together the rhubarb, regular sugar, lemon/orange zest, and lemon/orange juice in a bowl and let it sit while you make the crisp, ( the part that goes on top of the rhubarb )

    Get out your food processor and put in the cold butter, which you've chopped into cubes, add the flour and brown sugar with the cinnamon pulse this until the flour coats the butter and breaks it up a bit. It should still look chunky, not like sand.

    Then add the walnuts and oats into the flour butter mix in the food processor , and pulse a few more times to mix them in and chop up the walnuts a bit. Over pulsing is bad here. Err on the side of less mixing.

    Grease a 8" baking dish. The glass ones are best for this, I think. Pour in the rhubarb mix and then cover the rhubarb with the flour oat butter mixture. Don't over think this, the flour oat mix doesn't have to be a super even layer over the rhubarb.

    Put this in a preheated 375 degree oven for about 45 minutes. As always, your oven temp and baking time will vary from mine. I think those new convection ovens bake faster than mine. But then my oven was pulled out of a junked camper trailer.

    The rhubarb crisp is done when the edges of the pan are starting to get burnt and the crisp is browning and the rhubarb bubbles a bit.

    This goes real well with our ginger ice cream recipe, watch our how to make ice cream video here and get the recipe as well.

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    1. Kim K.

      May 23, 2011 at 10:14 am

      THIS IS AWESOME! I remember my mom always making rhubarb tea for us when we were younger! I had no idea about the harvesting and yummy looking 'crisp' you could make with it! Granted, I never did extensive research... but still, kudos to you! Looks great tasting! And i LOVE your puppy! I'm sure they're all grown up now. 😀 Have a great day! -Kim

    2. Steve S.

      September 27, 2012 at 8:17 am

      My mom made this for us 60 years ago, great memories!

      Try adding strawberries, they go well with rubarb, sweet/tart combo.

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