rhubarb

Rhubarb Rose Bitters

This bitters recipe is completely original – and is a real experiment. Todd added the essential things to make it bitter, but it will take a little while before we know if the experiment is a success or not!

From our first tastes and smells, the results are wonderful.

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Rhubarb Mother

I've put off starting a sourdough mixture for a long time, and for a lot of reasons. This week, I just didn't have any more excuses. This starter begins with rhubarb from our garden - just another item (like cabbage) that you can use to start a sour mixture.

This method comes from the Fergus Henderson cookbook Beyond Nose to Tail and is the basis of a number of bread recipes in his book. It's my goal to use this starter in a BLT challenge, so I wanted to try it out first.

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Cherry Rhubarb Pie

After making our Sour Cherry Stout, I had about a pound of leftover sour cherries – not quite enough to make a pie on its own, but too much to ignore. I did a little digging in Rose’s Pie and Pastry Bible and found a cherry rhubarb lattice pie, and I used that as a template for this pie, minus the lattice. 

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Grape Rhubarb Pie

We have giant grapevines in the backyard that stretch across nearly the entire fence, and with that comes gallons and gallons of perfectly sweet Concord grapes. I had never even heard of grape pie when Todd had suggested trying one last year – his mother had made one while she was visiting once, and given the abundance and proximity of such great fruit, I decided to give it a try.

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