How To Cook Rhubarb

[belrec]

My daughter goes to a gardening club at school and has come home with a couple of stalks of rhubarb grown there.

What is the best way to cook it so that:
A. it doesn't make us ill :-)
B. the kids actually enjoy it.

Will do a quick search later on google as well, but would really like a tried and tested method that you know works :-)

TIA x

[Jennykenny]

If they still have the leaves on, chop them off and discard. They are dangerous, but the stalks are lovely.
Wash, chop them up into equal sizes, very gently stew with sugar and a good pinch of powdered ginger if you have it and serve with custard.

[gingejbee]

...or in a microwave at half-power. Cover but don't be tempted to add water...there's more than enough in the rhubarb.

[ladyalex]

Remove the leaves and any dirty looking bits at the bottom.
Wash it.
C hop it into equal bite sized pieces then put it in the microwave with just the water adhering to it.
Blitz for a minute then stir. If it is still not tender, give it another minute.
Add sugar to taste with ground ginger if you like ginger.
Alternatively, wash it and chop it and use it under a crumble topping or a sponge topping as you would for apple crumble or Eve's pudding.
You'll need more sugar for rhubarb than you do for apples, though.

[Lie-in King]

Allow it to cook in its own time while it rests at the bottom of the bin.

Sorry to be negative, but IMO it's filthy stuff.

[ladyalex]

You just haven't had the good stuff, Maj :-))

[Lie-in King]

Stringy, slimy, always tastes odd to me, m'lady - I'd go without dessert rather than try it again, sorry :-)

[ladyalex]

Sounds like yours has been overcooked, Maj....but if you don't like it, you don't like it.
:-))

[Old_Geezer]

Jenny pretty much summed up how, as a kid, my mother would cook rhubarb from the garden for the family. Add sugar to personal taste.

[Svejk]

its nice(and simple) done in the oven.

[atalanta]

If you are worried about oxalic acid, it won't be a problem. Well, not unless you can eat over 5 pounds of rhubarb in one sitting, Then you might have to be concerned.

[belrec]

Thanks for all your replies, we haven't managed to cook them yet but will report back when we do x

[lady-janine]

cooked gently with sugar to taste and then stirred into custard. put into pre baked flan case and bake with ground ginger or cinnamon on top

[belrec]

Thanks for all your answers, we cooked it tonight and it wasn't a great success. But we tried it :-)

[jomifl]

Give it to someone who will appreciate it ....me.

[belrec]

sorry jomifl, we ate about half then it went in the bin.

next time will pop round with it for you :-)

[B00]

Ooooo love rhubarb, not had it in years.

As a kid I used to eat it raw, nicked, I mean borrowed from a local field. Didn't half used to give me belly ache though, but I'd still go back for stick after stick!

[Tilly2]

My Mum used to give me a stick of rhubarb and a paper cone with sugar in it and I would sit on the doorstep, happily dipping the rhubarb into the sugar and munching away.

At other times, she would give me half a pomegranate and a pin to pick the seeds out and that would keep me good for ages.

[belrec]

will save some for you as well then Boo :-)

[Svejk]

pomegranets? were the height of exotic(a) when we were kids.;)

[Tilly2]

I'm talking about pomegranates, not pomegrantes. Ten a penny round our way!