PUBLOG FRUIT OF THE MONTH: RHUBARB
I made a rhubarb pie yesterday, after having been afeard for many a year of how to cook the fruit worlds answer to celery. I guess I was always slightly put off by the poisonous leaves thing (Bad Girls watchers taken note) and my mothers arcane stweing rituals which seemed to go on for hows. I am not sure why having cooked some yesterday it took about ten minutes to go to the consistency of melted human (with nice strands to suggest a still working nervous system).
Unfortuantely there was not quite enough to fill the pie which was a bit empty. So I tried to bulk it up with banana, which was interesting but as an experiment I have to admit did not work quite as well as I might have hoped. Here is to a summer of rhubarb though…