What can you do with rhubarb plants?

SeniorBen

SeniorBen

Senior Member
At the back of my yard are plants with giant leaves. I thought they were squash plants, although there aren't any squashes growing from them, but that's what they looked like to me. A friend informed me today that they were rhubarb plants.

So what do I do with rhubarb? I heard of rhubarb pie but I'm not going through all that trouble. If I want pie, I'll get one from King Soopers.
 

I can recall back when I was a pup there was a yard that I passed walking home from school that had big rhubarb patch that grew within arms distance of the sidewalk and I'd always grab a stalk to eat.......sour as all get out but for some reason back then I liked it.

Apparently there are some health benefits to eating rhubarb.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/rhubarb-benefits/
 

Make a crisp or cobbler--clean and cut up the stalks(not the leaves}. Add sugar and flour and oatmeal Dot with butter. Or make a white or yellow cake mix and cover the cut up sugared rhubarb with the cake. 9 x13 in cake pan

Rhubarb cooked--cut up and cover with a small amount of water. Cook until soft. Add strawberry Jello dry mix and sugar to taste. When cooled it will jell.
 
If you were closer, Iā€™d take it off your hands and make you a rhubarb cake.

If you have any aluminum pans that need cleaning, fill them with water and a few slices of chopped up rhubarb. Bring to a boil and those pots will shine inside. I donā€™t know if this works with any other kinds of pots.
 
Rhubarb makes great sweets, jams, pies, crumbles, but beware
as Lavinia says the leaves are fatal to humans, or they will at
least make you very ill.

It is very popular here, so much, that a company in Yorkshire
grows in large barns, to supply supermarkets in the Winter.

Mike.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Yeah, as a kid I knew raw rhubarb is SOUR. As an adult I know it's easily mowed down.
Click to expand...
They're cool looking plants, so I'll let them grow. As far as eating them, it seems like too much work with not enough reward. I'll try to give some away and maybe someone can make a pie out of them.
 
Sliverfox said:
If you don't want to make pie or rhubarb jam,,offer the stalks to neighbors who might want to make a pie or jam.
Click to expand...
I had rhubarb jam for the first time recently and the flavour was really something, but I've always enjoyed it stewed so no real surprise, (and my mother claimed it was beneficial to your digestion, or something like that anyway). :)
 
While rhubarb leaves do contain poisonous oxalic acid, you would have to eat several kilograms to kill you.

That is true Captain Lightning, but my memory is from
my childhood, when I was told that if I ate the leaves,
I would die!

Some things stick in the mind even to this day and I have
never tried the leaves.

Mike.
 
funsearcher! said:
Make a crisp or cobbler--clean and cut up the stalks(not the leaves}. Add sugar and flour and oatmeal Dot with butter. Or make a white or yellow cake mix and cover the cut up sugared rhubarb with the cake. 9 x13 in cake pan

Rhubarb cooked--cut up and cover with a small amount of water. Cook until soft. Add strawberry Jello dry mix and sugar to taste. When cooled it will jell.
Click to expand...

I love the crisp or cobbler idea! (And yes, stalks only!)

One might also simply simmer the chopped stalks, and add into applesauce;
Or if you've no applesauce, then you might toss a chopped apple or a few strawberries, into the pan, when simmering the rhubarb.
 
My mother ate rhubarb pie, and she also ate pickled herring. My father and I ate neither. I tend to like what my father did. Some things are an acquired taste, I guess!

27696D9B-945E-439C-B977-0E06ED633E19.jpeg
 
A week ago at the Farmersā€™ Market one vendor was selling a batch, enough for maybe one pie, for $6. Ridiculous. Guess thatā€˜s why it was still sitting on his table.
 
Jules said:
A week ago at the Farmersā€™ Market one vendor was selling a batch, enough for maybe one pie, for $6. Ridiculous. Guess thatā€˜s why it was still sitting on his table.
Click to expand...

My own thinking is that someone who loves rhubarb, would pay more than that and consider $6 a steal, šŸ˜
while a rhubarb hater wouldn't have bought it for $1 !:LOL:

Some foods are like that.;):giggle::ROFLMAO:
 
Rhubarb is something that we always had when I lived up north in Idaho and Washington; but it does not seem to grow down here in the south in Alabama. I have tried a couple of times, and it didnā€™t make it once the summer heat started.
I read that some people here grow it as an annual crop, planting the seeds each spring, and then harvesting what comes up until it dies from the heat in summer. I ordered some seeds from eBay and they just arrived today, so I planted some seeds in two of my planter pots, and will thin them into several containers once they come up and get a start.
If i can keep them over the summer, I will and if not, then I will at least have a few shoots to enjoy as they grow this spring.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top