I’m usually a purist when it comes to home baking. I like to cook from scratch, and that means the ingredient list includes flour, sugar, baking soda and other basic ingredients.
Semi-homemade dishes have their fans, too. Those are made using ingredients like boxed mixes and bottled products. If you’ve ever dressed up a can of baked beans with some ketchup, mustard and a few other goodies, you know what I mean.
I’m sure a web search would produce a cake recipe along this line that uses basic ingredients. Or if you like to tinker, create your own.
But if you need a quick cake, using rhubarb, this might just be the one that hits the spot.
I know that April and May are favorite months around our house to get our rhubarb fix! This cake will serve up plenty.
Photos by kimbesa.
Also called pie plant, its culinary uses are for desserts, sauces, jam, even wine.
It’s the standard, best known Corning pattern, though it was discontinued in the late 1980s.
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Is Rhubarb For You?
kimbesa, Do you prefer white or yellow cake mix? Do you use colored or mixed marshmallows? Do you have any rhubarb pie recipes you'd like to share?
I have seen knotweed kill a tree.
Yes indeed, You probably jinxed my rhubarb at the point too ... :)
Ours needs to get on my list for dividing, too. There are some clumping onions that have got in with them, and it will be a good opportunity to clear that out, too.
Every three to five years you need to lift and divide the rhubarb. On the plot that I have just taken over there is a mass of rhubarb that is thin and undersized, because it has not been fed and divided. So come the season's end Andrew and I are going to lift the lot and replant. We will split it with my felling ax and replant in well-manured ground. dividing might seem brutal, but it gives new vigour to the plant.
Was that when I identified the knotweed for you?
Japanese knotweed killed my rhubarb crowns but our youngest brother gave me 4 of his crowns and planted them in large so no future knotweed could damage them
That makes sense what you said about rhubarb in Florida. TY. I had assumed it must be a US nationwide thing.
Good for him!
Victoria is a variety of which I have never heard. Thanks for this.
Some years ago I read a newspaper article about a young man from the rhubarb triangle. When he and his schoolmates were discussing careers he evoked derision when he said that he wanted to join his family's rhubarb business. His schoolmates derided him, but his verdict was, "At twenty two I am the only one of them with a BMW! You don't need a glamour job to get rich."