Those were the days when we grew so much more of our own foods. I loved a stick rhubarb with sugar and stick celery with salt. I still grow rhubarb and am half way through yesterday 'crumble'. Rhubarb wine was always around in our house, cheap and certainly 'cheerful' and it makes lovely jam mixed with a variety of other things, like ginger, & spices, and we made marrow and rhubarb jam, or rather mother did, and she never had recipes, puts me to shame!