Rhubarb cakes!

[ina]

Seeing that it is rhubarb time (almost all that's available in my garden at the moment), I thought I might share some of my cake recipes with you. Endless variations are, of course, possible. They are essentially German cake recipes, but I rarely stick to them to the letter.


Rhubarb cake I

Base – sweet pastry: 125 g unsalted butter, 2 egg yolk, 125 g honey, 300 g plain wholemeal flour.

Use to line a 26cm springform. Fill with 500g rhubarb, cut in 2-3cm pieces.

Topping: Whisk 6 egg white with 125g honey and 2 teaspoon grated orange rind. Fold in 100g wholemeal flour and 200g desiccated coconut. Spread on rhubarb and bake for about 50 minutes at 190o - 200o Celsius.

(This leaves you with the problem of what to do with the remaining 4 egg yolks! They make good hair conditioner... But don't forget to rinse well. You can also use them to make "egg liqueur" (Advocaat), but I don't have the recipe for that handy.)


Rhubarb cake II

For this recipe you need “Quarkâ€Â

[hay331]

They sound yummy, I'm going to try the tray bake. My sister has piles of rhubarb (she hates the stuff) so I made chutney for the first time. I reduced it a bit too much so it is a bit thick but it is scrumptious. Only made 2 jars as I wasn't sure what it would be like and it's supposed to sit in a cool dark place for 1 month, guess what, yes, it's nearly all gone!

[Andy Hamilton]

Thanks Ina, will check out the farmers market on sat and get some rhubarb to try out one of them.

[greenbean]

Hi Ina & Hay,
I have loads of rhubarb. I will try out one of the cake recipes at the weekend. Are you able to tell us your chutney recipe Hay?

[shiney]

Rhubarb recipes that sound lovely. Unfortunately I don't have any in my garden. I know where there is some that I could scrump, it's at the bottom of one of my neighbours gardens and they NEVER eat it.

Don't tell a soul!

Thanks for the ideas Ina, I'll give them a go.

[ina]

Ah no, Shiney, wouldn't dream of telling anybody... I know how sickening it is when people have all that lovely stuff in their gardens and let it go to rot, and don't even think of offering it to friends and neighbours! I lived next door to somebody once who had a huge rhubarb plant, unfortunately in their front garden, and I was never brave enough to pinch any, directly under their noses as it were. I still regret it.

Ina

[Millymollymandy]

Keep posting the rhubarb recipes as I'm going to be needing them next year!! I found yet another rhubarb coming up in the weeds where I found the others and guess what - my husband has gone and strimmed it!

[shiney]

Blokes and strimmers eh? (Sorry to all men here who ARE handy with one without destroying perfectly good plants) I have experienced a few thrashed plants in my garden! They survived luckily, bit scarred but alive.

[newbiemum05]

Ina - those cake recipes sound great - I LOVE rhubarb !

You also mentioned making cordial - any recipe/instructions on how to do it - would love to give it a go !

[hedgewitch]

I absolutely ADORE Rhubarb but we just can't get it here
I'm thinking of getting a crown sent over and trying to grow it myself.
All those recipes sound delish, my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

[Libby]

Rhubarb recipes that sound lovely. Unfortunately I don't have any in my garden. I know where there is some that I could scrump, it's at the bottom of one of my neighbours gardens and they NEVER eat it.

Don't tell a soul!

Thanks for the ideas Ina, I'll give them a go.

Ask them if you can have some! Offer them a pie or cake from the haul. If they really don,t like it, offer to dig it up and take it off their hands.

[woolcraft]

My mum makes a cake with a pastry base, rhubarb and orange juice filling, topped with a crumble topping made with medium oatmeal - she tells me its called a Matrimonial Cake - you have to take the rough with the smooth. Whatever, it's delicious.

Tip for cooking rhubarb if it's really thick and green (ie not as sweet at the pink stalks) use lemonade instead of sugar for cooking it. This works brilliantly.

Sue

[Millymollymandy]

I thought this was a new thread and was thinking "Rhubarb time? Already? In Aberdeen, with all that snow". Then I realised it was posted in June last year!

[ina]

No, you are right, MMM - no chance of rhubarb yet! I can just about see where it will be in a couple of months' time. Still have rhubarb jam from last year, though...

[Shirley]

we had rhubarb from the farmers market the weekend before last...

We made a scrummy cake with it - like an upside down cake with a sticky rhubarb topping... and ground almonds and rhubarb chunks in the cake mix. Can't find the recipe at the mo... but will look it out as it was a very good one.