Its rhubarb crumble day =o)
By Wizzywig
@Wizzywig (7847)
May 2, 2010 4:45am CST
Yesterday, I went out and pulled all the rhubarb, - the first crop of the year - cut it up and cooked it. So, today we'll have rhubarb crumble. I saved some porridge oats to add to the crumble mix and we'll have it with cream, custard or ice cream.
Also, yesterday, I visited my mum and she had cooked hers - so, it must be rhubarb crumble day!!
How's your rhubarb doing? Have you eaten the first crop yet and how did you/will you eat it? - pie, crumble, stewed, cake...
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
2 May 10
Hiya Wizzy,
No I have´nt got a crop of Rhubarb now but in our Back Garden we used to have a Rhubarb patch and we used to pull a stick of it here and there and wash it and dip it in a bit of sugar and eat it just like that. It was delicious straight from the Garden.
I adore Rhubarb Crumble with anything like that with cream, custard specially love custard. But right now I would eat it with any of those I don´t think they even grow that here at all. I don´t personally know anyone that does grow it and they have their own patches of land to grow things on.
That is something I really miss. I used to get a double helping from my friend the Dinner Lady who used to give me a knowing wink because she knew of my "trauma" with Fish Days boy do I hate fish and the smell of it. I mean Cod and all that greasy blue fish smell yuk and double yuk. So when it was Friday fish Day she gave me a double helping of Rhubarb as it was more often than not they put us Rhubarb crumble with the Fish. Of course I never ate any of the Fish was I a bad girl? No, just having been force fed it many times over and over you get to dislike it totally. But never Rhubarb crumble.
Actually this Dinner Lady as she was only a teenager when I was staying School Dinners we met up just by coincidence when I was seeing to my Mom in the Hospital and she says look it´s the I hate fish girl and we both laughed. She reckons that the faces I pulled were second to none and that´s why she remembered me and my face. Nice to know is´nt it? So yes Rhubarb became my very favourite and she my favourite Dinner Lady. She reckoned that she always remembered me for that and me being so small so she used to double it and also double me the ration of mashed potato and tomatoes reckoned that I needed more extras to help on up the "growing ladder".
She really is a nice person and was then.
Wizzy go on be a sport and send me some right now double helping thank you very much. Have a great weekend Wizz and thanks for evoking the memories of Rhubarb and albeit that horrible fish I can still smell it but the Rhubarb smells much much nicer (grin).
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@Wizzywig (7847)
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2 May 10
Ha! no,I dont do fish either. I force myself to eat tuna every so often but thats it.
School dinners actually look quite nice in some schools but I think its wrong that they charge 4 year olds the same as 11years olds because they put hardly anything on the plates. Sometimes we have to help serve the meals on the ward and the catering lady tells me off for putting too much on some of the plates - never goes to waste tho!
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
2 May 10
Hiya Wizzy,
No four year old´s are not going to eat as much as the eleven years olds exception of one or two. I get that in this House I put way too much Food sometimes but I am getting much better in coming to a compromise with the food and the ones that eat it. Where is my Rhubarb Crumble then has it gone already alas twill never be seen again. Okay so when are you making another one then (grin).
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I'll have to wait for the rhubarb to grow again now...
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 May 10
Strudel maybe? But I've never heard of it made with rhubarb...
@Wizzywig (7847)
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4 May 10
I looked for a recipe with picture.....
http://www.odlums.ie/index.php?page=rhubarb-crumble
thats pretty much how I make it, tho I dont measure out the ingredients. I just go by how it feels. If I have any left over, I add dried fruit and a bit more sugar, then bind it together with one egg and a bit of milk. I put spoonfuls on a greased baking tray & cook them - till they're light brown underneath.
I like the sound of rhubarb strudel- that will have to wait till it grows again.
@Wizzywig (7847)
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4 May 10
Do you call it something else?? or is the question because you dont like it?... a topping that you start much like ordinary pastry but add some sugar & just leave it dry instead of mixing it to a dough and put it on top of your fruit. Then bake it. I put porridge oats in my crumble mix.
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