Two big rhubarb plants grew out by the barn of my dad's horse. They supplied several of our neighbors with their yearly rhubarb diet. I found the stuff to bitter for my taste until someone introduced me to strawberry rhubarb pie. That is a treat I will not pass up.
@@eggsngritstn Not more but about the same I would think. I got snowed in visiting Maine one winter. Had to wait 2 days to go home to "tropical" Connecticut.
I'm a mainer and can confirm that it gets a lot colder here for a lot longer than anyone tends to realize. Also they may have put that in because we use rhubarb in a lot of our traditional cuisine
@bremmersghost Liquorice hasn't been grown in Pontefract for decades, it's a myth that it still is. It takes minimum of two years after planting to get a yield and it's simply not cost effective
I'm Canadian, and when I was a kid, a friend's mother grew rhubarb. As a treat she would give us a stalk with some sugar to dip it in...still one of my favourite childhood memories. My Scottish Granny made stewed rhubarb and rhubarb crumble...just thinking about them is making my mouth water. 😀😋😀
@@christophermerlot3366 -American here who hasn't had a REAL rhubarb pie since somewhere in the 80's when my father grew it. Commercially , all I ever see is strawberry/rhubarb pie.....and strawberries give me hives.:-(
@@christelheadington1136 When I was a kid in the '60s we sometimes had rhubarb pie, as well as stewed rhubarb. We also used to have gooseberry pies and gooseberry preserves. I've never seen any of those things in decades.
@@raydunakin My mum grew gooseberries and I grew up on her gooseberry jam; it is absolutely out of this world!! Sadly, she's gone now and so are her bushes, and I'm on the other side of the continent. But! At a farmer's market not too far away a few years ago, I found someone selling gooseberry jam!! They only took cash and I only had a bit on me so I was only able to get one jar. But still!! We were camping with a bunch of friends, so I took it back and the kids and I each had a slice of rye bread with butter and the jam--soooo good. And then I told my friends to give it a try too and the jar was passed around the table and came back empty and I haven't been able to track any down since. :( Time for me to plant some myself, I guess!
Easy Rhubarb Sauce: You will need: 3 cups Rhubarb* 1 cup fruit of choice** (I like strawberries pineapple) 1/2 to 1 cup sugar*** Heavy bottomed pot (to prevent burning) 1/2 cup or so of water 1 Tbs tapioca or corn starch Step 1: Chop rhubarb stalks into roughly 1-2 inch long pieces. Thick stalks can be cut it half. Step 2: Add water, rhubarb, and sugar to the pot and cook on low to medium low heat until tender, stirring enough so that nothing sticks. If sauce is too thick add more water. Higher heat can burn or lead to boiling over. Step 3: Once everything has broken down and turned saucy mix starch with 2ish Tbs of water to make a slurry and add it to the sauce. Mix it in well. Cook this until it starts to thicken then you're done. It's great over ice cream and angel food cake or with vanilla pudding and Graham crackers for some crunch. My grandma likes it over granola at breakfast. It keeps for a few days in the fridge or you can freeze part of it. *If you have a lot of rhubarb you can add up to 1 1/2 cups more rhubarb. Just add a bit more sugar to prevent it from getting too tart. ** If using dried fruit then use about a 1/2 cup chopped pieces and add in a little bit more water. ***amount of sugar is up to personal preference and choice of fruit.
Used to live in the area, you don’t see many growing sheds these days but there are a few. More likely to fine warehouses/RDC’s. Live in the Golden Triangle now, we like our triangles in Yorkshire :)
When I was young we had a big patch of rhubarb in the back yard. We quickly learned what happened when you ate too much rhubarb. Makes a great laxative.
Rhubarb, said over and over, was taught to us high school theater students as a way for the audience to hear the equivalent of murmuring. We would go down the halls between other classes and greet each other saying, "rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb?" the correct reply was "rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb." 😂
Hey!!...thank you Simon...you reminded me to plant the new crowns of rhubarb that I have been nursing for the past 2 years...they are now in situ...Love from Scotland
When we bought our house many years ago, we had a corner of the garden overtaken by rhubarb. My husband knew he hated rhubarb because his mum told him so... he couldn’t recall trying it, but then his mum assured him he hated pizza too. (He had an extensive list of foods him mum told him he hated). So he tried like crazy to get rid of the rhubarb... it’s still there... And thriving Since then he’s eaten and loved most things on his list. Oh yeah, we live in... Yorkshire, we don’t need to force it, it forced us, but it means every single year I can charges, chop and freeze it or make rhubarb jam and have it available all year round, unless my husband gets in there and scoffs it all.
Hard to kill... You're not kidding. I accidentally put a spade through a crown a couple of months ago... After uttering a few words I put the severed piece into a free bit of ground, and hoped I hadn't killed the original plant. Not only did the original plant not bat an eyelid, but the severed piece has already thrown up its first leaf! My little plot - an anarchistic rectangle - is actually under a tree, so it gets automatic fertiliser from birds doing what they do in tree branches, and a load of dead leaves every autumn.
From Dewsbury here, just outside the triangle. Shoddy is what the American Civil War uniforms (on both sides, surprisingly, but the Union had quite a bit more made) were made from. They either wore out in minutes, or were so tough you couldn't get rid of them if you wanted to.
Me at beginning of video- *imitating Simon* "I can't think of anything I care about less!" Me at end of video- "Wow. Rhubarb is actually kinda cool!" 😂
I live in Wakefield, every year there is a rhubarb festival in the city centre which is a fun time. Rhubarb flavoured Gins, fudge, Curry, Nuts and Sweets.
I live in wakey too. Never really understood the rhubarb festival. Who holds a festival in Yorkshire in February for a plant that needs to me stewed in sugar for millennia to be palatable. Of course we do. Rhubarb and custard boiled sweets are the bomb tho.
Yorkshire lass here, we also have a rhubarb festival every year and light the clock at town hall up pink for it. It's mostly an excuse the get drunk in the street on rhubarb gin honestly.
@@morgandria if you chop it small and cook it with just a little bit of water it breaks down really well and that stringy texture disappears. I dont like its raw texture much either.
As an "essential" employee working in the electronics industry, working 12hr shifts, I enter and leave work in the dark. What I've noticed is more bugs hitting my windshield. Looks like we're going to have an infestation because fewer cars on the roads are killing fewer bugs. So... How many bugs are killed annually by traffic?
I used to do some gardening as a summer job when I was at uni. The amount of rhubarb I've had to dig out of people's gardens is insane. That root ball is tough and deep and heavy. Second only to Japanese knot weed.
My German grandmother makes a wonderful rhubarb pie. This video makes me want to ask her to make me one... it’s so good! Rhubarb is a miracle plant, to be sure.
I live in the Rhubarb Triangle and we have one plant in the garden. We get at least 3 crops from it each year and that's not including the last crop which we leave for the plant to re digest. Wife makes a cracking crumble.
Just quick point: any three points on a plane or a sphere when joined by straight lines make a triangle So the lines between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield make a n exact triangle - they can do no other. BTW some of the towns in the area were known for making "shoddy" taking used woollen fabrics and disentangling it, washing and combing it and reweaving it So the use of shoddy might be important.
We used to find rhubarb growing wild in the North East (around Sunderland and Washington), once you spotted a good patch, and you knew it was ripe, you'd bag enough for a few pies.
I always wondered why Grandma's rhubarb pie tasted like Sh!t & why the farmer across the street would shoot us dirty looks from across his well fertilized field!
Omfg I actually wait to the end to see how many vids are written by karl, love the shout out. As soon as you said Yorkshire I immediately thought karl would have eaten this with beans and toast
My childhood home had lots of rhubarb. We had two large patches on either side of our garage. We let anybody who wants some pick it because there's no way we could eat even a quarter of it. But it grows so well and spreads so much that we had to try getting rid of most of it and we dug it up and put weed killer on it and all that did was make it so we couldn't eat any of it that year. Lol. Its hardy stuff. The stalks that are dark red taste the best but the green ones make great pies. My favorite dish is a pie made with rhubarb and dried fruits like raisins, cranberries, and cherries. There is literally no fruit that doesn't taste good with rhubarb in my my experience.
My grandfather as well as others in the middle of Indiana grew rhubarb. I liked the tartness enough to get in trouble for raiding grandpa's crop. We knew nothing of the nocturnal formulation of the sugars.
Sidenote, the soil is so good in the triangle because it was the dumping ground for the night soil men of all three cities. Yes,indeed, human sewage was dumped across the area for centuries due to its unique position between 3 cities, then after the industrial revolution the woolen industry started using the area for disposal of shoddy which again is basically wool full of tagnuts.
Multiple questions here , Why is the ice falling from the sky called hail??? ( as a little kid I thought that it was called helll , Oh brother; Also where did the saying, SILVER LINING Come from and what exactly is it supposed to be??; Many thanks, I am boring would like to know??; Best regards and 🍻
Oregon had a reputation for being big in rhubarb. Never really noticed much that was similar between that state and Yorkshire though... (of course, I've not been to Yorkshire all that much...)
I didn't know rhubarb was a big deal in GB. I'm American and my grandparents grow it in their garden and my grandma makes pies from it and yes, it's delicious.
My Grandfather on my Father's side was an immigrant from Norway and he grew Rhubarb, not much like those enterprising people in Britain but enough to make a few bottles of wine.
Where there is a market, it is available chopped and frozen year round. In Gainesville, FL, maybe because of professors from Europe or the North, it was commonly sold that way. Non college towns in FL rarely have it because it doesn't grow there and is therefore unfamiliar. In Chicago, where rhubarb could actually grow (it certainly doesn't survive in the Deep South!), it is rarely available, probably because urban culture has degenerated to the point that few people know how to cook.
After learning parts of it are toxic, my mom tried to get rid of the yard's old rhubarb plant so baby-me wouldn't poison myself. No matter what she tried it kept growing back. Only when she resorted to pouring some GASOLINE on it, did it finally stay dead. (I've asked and no, she didnt take the extra step of lighting a match to it, she still wanted the rest of the yard plants lol)
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I never herd of such an odd vegetable ?
_People:_
You can't grow plants in the dark
_Yorkshire:_
*Hold my rhubarb*
Take my seeds of faith! lol LMAO
Hold my Blueberry Rhubarb Pom Yumminess!
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Forced Rhubarb is now the name of my farmer death metal band
Death country is an actual music thing by the wau
Farmcore
Pleeease
Two big rhubarb plants grew out by the barn of my dad's horse. They supplied several of our neighbors with their yearly rhubarb diet. I found the stuff to bitter for my taste until someone introduced me to strawberry rhubarb pie. That is a treat I will not pass up.
Unforced rhubarb is very sharp to taste, which is why it's best stewed with golden syrup and sugar first. Then you can make crumble :-D
"The frozen tundras of Siberia... or Maine"
Never really thought of those as equivalent but suppose that fits.
Agree, perhaps Minnesota fits more readily?
@@eggsngritstn Not more but about the same I would think. I got snowed in visiting Maine one winter. Had to wait 2 days to go home to "tropical" Connecticut.
I'm a mainer and can confirm that it gets a lot colder here for a lot longer than anyone tends to realize. Also they may have put that in because we use rhubarb in a lot of our traditional cuisine
not really...Maine is boreal forest not tundra. similar in temperature perhaps.
Or the northwest corner of Pennsylvania because it's still friggin snowing here.😨😧
And on the 6th day, God blessed west Yorkshire with optimal rhubarb growing conditions
Can't forget the Fine Liqourice that grows here too
praise be
@bremmersghost Liquorice hasn't been grown in Pontefract for decades, it's a myth that it still is. It takes minimum of two years after planting to get a yield and it's simply not cost effective
I'm Canadian, and when I was a kid, a friend's mother grew rhubarb. As a treat she would give us a stalk with some sugar to dip it in...still one of my favourite childhood memories.
My Scottish Granny made stewed rhubarb and rhubarb crumble...just thinking about them is making my mouth water. 😀😋😀
Also a Canadian. We did the exact same thing. It was awesome.
@@christophermerlot3366 -American here who hasn't had a REAL rhubarb pie since somewhere in the 80's when my father grew it. Commercially , all I ever see is strawberry/rhubarb pie.....and strawberries give me hives.:-(
@@christelheadington1136 When I was a kid in the '60s we sometimes had rhubarb pie, as well as stewed rhubarb. We also used to have gooseberry pies and gooseberry preserves. I've never seen any of those things in decades.
We did same, then my dad found out about rhubarb wine so every stick was needed . then him and the man nexdoor built a still to make a rhubarb brandy,
@@raydunakin My mum grew gooseberries and I grew up on her gooseberry jam; it is absolutely out of this world!! Sadly, she's gone now and so are her bushes, and I'm on the other side of the continent. But! At a farmer's market not too far away a few years ago, I found someone selling gooseberry jam!! They only took cash and I only had a bit on me so I was only able to get one jar. But still!! We were camping with a bunch of friends, so I took it back and the kids and I each had a slice of rye bread with butter and the jam--soooo good. And then I told my friends to give it a try too and the jar was passed around the table and came back empty and I haven't been able to track any down since. :( Time for me to plant some myself, I guess!
"When big rhubarb was being spearheaded by the lizard people, naturally..." I have been listening to you for years. It's finally time. I'll subscribe.
Ah, if that's what got your sub, you'll have to check business blaze - Simon really lets it all hang out over there. Zero fucks given
@@databanks RAGE SHADOW LEGENDS!!!
Best line in the whole video in my book
@@databanks some people might not be able to handle Simon letting it all hang out. 😁🤪
I’m beginning to think that TH-cam should be just renamed to the Simon whistler app lol. I wonder how many shows does he host now
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The Lizard People's cloning program is showing great promise...
@@LukeBunyip the first rule of the LCP is don't talk about the LCP.
Olive
He hosts olive them
Easy Rhubarb Sauce:
You will need:
3 cups Rhubarb*
1 cup fruit of choice** (I like strawberries pineapple)
1/2 to 1 cup sugar***
Heavy bottomed pot (to prevent burning)
1/2 cup or so of water
1 Tbs tapioca or corn starch
Step 1: Chop rhubarb stalks into roughly 1-2 inch long pieces. Thick stalks can be cut it half.
Step 2: Add water, rhubarb, and sugar to the pot and cook on low to medium low heat until tender, stirring enough so that nothing sticks. If sauce is too thick add more water. Higher heat can burn or lead to boiling over.
Step 3: Once everything has broken down and turned saucy mix starch with 2ish Tbs of water to make a slurry and add it to the sauce. Mix it in well. Cook this until it starts to thicken then you're done.
It's great over ice cream and angel food cake or with vanilla pudding and Graham crackers for some crunch. My grandma likes it over granola at breakfast.
It keeps for a few days in the fridge or you can freeze part of it.
*If you have a lot of rhubarb you can add up to 1 1/2 cups more rhubarb. Just add a bit more sugar to prevent it from getting too tart.
** If using dried fruit then use about a 1/2 cup chopped pieces and add in a little bit more water.
***amount of sugar is up to personal preference and choice of fruit.
Used to live in the area, you don’t see many growing sheds these days but there are a few. More likely to fine warehouses/RDC’s. Live in the Golden Triangle now, we like our triangles in Yorkshire :)
Sure, it’s all fun and name games until planes start disappearing!
When I was young we had a big patch of rhubarb in the back yard. We quickly learned what happened when you ate too much rhubarb. Makes a great laxative.
😯🧠💬✍
It seems rhubarb is the nether wart of real life.
Your comment has made me soo happy thank you
Rhubarb, said over and over, was taught to us high school theater students as a way for the audience to hear the equivalent of murmuring. We would go down the halls between other classes and greet each other saying, "rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb?" the correct reply was "rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb." 😂
I learned the same thing! That or peas and carrots, peas and carrots.
@@Mark-zu6oz Maybe that is a regional thing. Later I heard of "peas and carrots". Minnesota here. Rhubarb grows really well here in the frozen north.
I've eaten wild rhubarb picked by myself near where I used to live. I'm a lifelong southeren New Englander. orignialyy from Tiverton RI
*shake's fits* " that thief Karl!" :p
Hey!!...thank you Simon...you reminded me to plant the new crowns of rhubarb that I have been nursing for the past 2 years...they are now in situ...Love from Scotland
I use to work with a lady that would bring me some og her homemade Blueberry-Rubarb cobbler whenever she made it. I miss her so much.
When we bought our house many years ago, we had a corner of the garden overtaken by rhubarb. My husband knew he hated rhubarb because his mum told him so... he couldn’t recall trying it, but then his mum assured him he hated pizza too. (He had an extensive list of foods him mum told him he hated). So he tried like crazy to get rid of the rhubarb... it’s still there... And thriving
Since then he’s eaten and loved most things on his list.
Oh yeah, we live in... Yorkshire, we don’t need to force it, it forced us, but it means every single year I can charges, chop and freeze it or make rhubarb jam and have it available all year round, unless my husband gets in there and scoffs it all.
I truly hope his mother choked on her spit after hearing about all this
Eyyup! Yorkshire til I die!
Josh Brough owdo lad same eya!
Hard to kill... You're not kidding.
I accidentally put a spade through a crown a couple of months ago... After uttering a few words I put the severed piece into a free bit of ground, and hoped I hadn't killed the original plant.
Not only did the original plant not bat an eyelid, but the severed piece has already thrown up its first leaf!
My little plot - an anarchistic rectangle - is actually under a tree, so it gets automatic fertiliser from birds doing what they do in tree branches, and a load of dead leaves every autumn.
Thanks Simon, now I’m craving rhubarb crumble and custard. Crimble crumble
Rhubarb and strawberries. Best. Combo. Ever.
Rhubarb + pie cherry + lots of sugar isn't bad either.
@@Erewhon2024 I'm going to try that :)
Good job, Simon. Im proud of you.
Grew up in the Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle, and worked in an old forcing shead... and yes I did grew quite a fair bit of Rhubarb, but sadly not forced.
We had a small rhubarb patch in our Wyoming garden. We had the best rhubarb and strawberry-rhubarb pies during the summers!
From Dewsbury here, just outside the triangle. Shoddy is what the American Civil War uniforms (on both sides, surprisingly, but the Union had quite a bit more made) were made from. They either wore out in minutes, or were so tough you couldn't get rid of them if you wanted to.
Me at beginning of video- *imitating Simon* "I can't think of anything I care about less!"
Me at end of video- "Wow. Rhubarb is actually kinda cool!" 😂
I live in Wakefield, every year there is a rhubarb festival in the city centre which is a fun time. Rhubarb flavoured Gins, fudge, Curry, Nuts and Sweets.
Imo the only thing worst than rhubarb is liquorice, 3 guesses where I grew up 😂
I live in wakey too. Never really understood the rhubarb festival. Who holds a festival in Yorkshire in February for a plant that needs to me stewed in sugar for millennia to be palatable.
Of course we do.
Rhubarb and custard boiled sweets are the bomb tho.
Yorkshire lass here, we also have a rhubarb festival every year and light the clock at town hall up pink for it. It's mostly an excuse the get drunk in the street on rhubarb gin honestly.
Where? I'm from Bradford and I've never heard of this :)
In Wakefield, it's usually a weekend so people spend the day at the festival then go to the clubs after
I'm apparently among the tiny minority who don't like rhubarb. Maybe because my grandmother always made pies and I was forced to partake of them.
Paul Drake Rhubarb is naaaasty. For me it's a texture thing. I don't like celery much either.
Fret not, Friend. You're far from alone!
My nan was awesome hers were lovely. Sadly I could not replace you. I love it.
I'm with you. I've tried only rhubarb pie, and hated it. It's possible it was just a fluke.
@@morgandria if you chop it small and cook it with just a little bit of water it breaks down really well and that stringy texture disappears. I dont like its raw texture much either.
That wasn’t an error at the beginning, Simon’s future proofing the video for when Yorkshire becomes independent
As an "essential" employee working in the electronics industry, working 12hr shifts, I enter and leave work in the dark. What I've noticed is more bugs hitting my windshield.
Looks like we're going to have an infestation because fewer cars on the roads are killing fewer bugs.
So... How many bugs are killed annually by traffic?
My friend's dad grew Rhubarb in his garden when I was a kid. Never had it raw but it made excellent crumble.
As a proud yorkshireman, this is just another feather in my virtual cap
That would be a flat cap
I used to do some gardening as a summer job when I was at uni. The amount of rhubarb I've had to dig out of people's gardens is insane. That root ball is tough and deep and heavy. Second only to Japanese knot weed.
Rhubarb and Japanese Knotweed are in the same plant family { Polygonaceae }.Young shoots of Knotweed are edible if cooked with sugar.
Here in the USA I ate rhubarb raw myself as a kid. my father told me the leaves were poison. I love how sour it is!~
my grandparents and parents grew Rhubarb in the US. love it!
wow! so proud to be from rothwell!! rubarb farms all around our village
My grandfathers rhubarb patch was right around his apple tree, and every kid could have all they could eat there. Good food, good memories.
Holy shit! XD How many channels are you hosting at this point? :D
You really are an amazing tryhard Simon! Much love from Denmark! :P
I guess if you're stuck home and already run so many channels, what's a few more? :D
My German grandmother makes a wonderful rhubarb pie. This video makes me want to ask her to make me one... it’s so good! Rhubarb is a miracle plant, to be sure.
Perfect video for me today. I spent the day splitting some of my rhubarb plants.
Simon thanks for the add for Yorkshire, did you know the same area grew liquorice too.
Until this video I had no idea you could eat the stalks raw.
I loved stewed rhubarb with hot custard as a child. 😁
First I've heard of this method of growing rhubarb. Interesting! Now comes more searching into the topic. Thanks...I think
"The english country of yorkshire" errm sure why not.
County.. not country.
@@pickettywitchoriginal Yorkshire is "God's own *Country* "
No witches in Yorkshire we boiled them in rhubarb oh and English like Yorkshire starts with a capital letter pal.
I would love to see you do a video about the famous 1904 summer olympic marathon, it was an amazing story
hey simon, a fan here. Lovin your work
This stuff grows so well around here you can't even give it away let alone make a living from it.
Thank you ,
its disgusting,
And to be honest this sounds like a pile of horse -hockey ,
My day is complete now that one of my favourite educational youtube personalities mentions one of my other favourite TH-cam personalities, happy days!
Thank you for the videos!!!!
i love rhubarb cake, it used to grow wild on our old farm every year and we'd go out and pick it and make cake or pie out of it
I love Rhubarb, roasted in the oven, drizzled with honey, and served with Vanilla Ice Cream. Try it, it is splendid.
Wow, I never would have guessed that rhubarb was so interesting.
I live in the Rhubarb Triangle and we have one plant in the garden. We get at least 3 crops from it each year and that's not including the last crop which we leave for the plant to re digest. Wife makes a cracking crumble.
Fun fact: There is a molly side (a sort of Morris dancing) based in Wakefield called the Rhubarb Tarts. They're a great lot.
In a crumble.....with custard.....heaven in a bowl
Jam! With a pinch of cinnamon and a teaspoon of vanilla.
Just quick point:
any three points on a plane or a sphere
when joined by straight lines
make a triangle
So the lines between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield
make a n exact triangle - they can do no other.
BTW some of the towns in the area were known for
making "shoddy" taking used woollen fabrics and
disentangling it, washing and combing it
and reweaving it
So the use of shoddy might be important.
We used to find rhubarb growing wild in the North East (around Sunderland and Washington), once you spotted a good patch, and you knew it was ripe, you'd bag enough for a few pies.
Loved the lizardpeople joke. Hi from York.
I live in Wakefield, we have a restaurant/pub called the rhubarb triangle! I don't like rhubarb though funnily enough haha
I always wondered why Grandma's rhubarb pie tasted like Sh!t & why the farmer across the street would shoot us dirty looks from across his well fertilized field!
Omfg I actually wait to the end to see how many vids are written by karl, love the shout out. As soon as you said Yorkshire I immediately thought karl would have eaten this with beans and toast
I have no idea what this is going to be about but i can't wait. Because i love rhubarb.
Damn Simon, how many channels are you going to have?? [ I'm sure I'll love them all :) ]
My childhood home had lots of rhubarb. We had two large patches on either side of our garage. We let anybody who wants some pick it because there's no way we could eat even a quarter of it. But it grows so well and spreads so much that we had to try getting rid of most of it and we dug it up and put weed killer on it and all that did was make it so we couldn't eat any of it that year. Lol. Its hardy stuff. The stalks that are dark red taste the best but the green ones make great pies. My favorite dish is a pie made with rhubarb and dried fruits like raisins, cranberries, and cherries. There is literally no fruit that doesn't taste good with rhubarb in my my experience.
I live on Van Isle Canada the weather is perfect for Rhubarb here
Mmmmm... Love rhubarb. I'm now going to harvest the first rhubarb from my garden 😉
Interesting.
Cool. Learn something new every day.
My grandfather as well as others in the middle of Indiana grew rhubarb. I liked the tartness enough to get in trouble for raiding grandpa's crop. We knew nothing of the nocturnal formulation of the sugars.
Hahaha I’m from here. Great vid
Sour rhubarb with a touch of salt is my favorite way to eat this plant.
Iv tasted rhubarb once and it was in a tea . Its a very unique flavor I really miss it .
Projects that are mega!!! hell ya
been watching WW2 documentaries, and just wondered; Who would be the militarily superior country; who would be allied with who and why?
I always thought that the "Rhubarb Triangle" was.... uhhhh.... never mind.
We used to have rhubarb in our garden, I miss these days.
Sidenote, the soil is so good in the triangle because it was the dumping ground for the night soil men of all three cities. Yes,indeed, human sewage was dumped across the area for centuries due to its unique position between 3 cities, then after the industrial revolution the woolen industry started using the area for disposal of shoddy which again is basically wool full of tagnuts.
Multiple questions here ,
Why is the ice falling from the sky called hail??? ( as a little kid I thought that it was called helll ,
Oh brother;
Also where did the saying, SILVER LINING Come from and what exactly is it supposed to be??;
Many thanks,
I am boring would like to know??;
Best regards and 🍻
Mr. Whistler is the busiest man on TH-cam.
Where I live in Canada everyone has it in backyard. I eat it every week. Pie, hot topping to icecream... yummy.
Rhubarb does fantastic in Alaska!
Oregon had a reputation for being big in rhubarb. Never really noticed much that was similar between that state and Yorkshire though... (of course, I've not been to Yorkshire all that much...)
I didn't know rhubarb was a big deal in GB. I'm American and my grandparents grow it in their garden and my grandma makes pies from it and yes, it's delicious.
I've heard the word rhubarb more times in this video than I have in the rest of my entire life
The Maine comment killed me. Fair statement to put us behind the attic tundra 😢😂
We get ours from Wisconsin and other northern us states so I've never had sweet Rhubarb. Here's another food reason i want to visit. Lol.
My Grandfather on my Father's side was an immigrant from Norway and he grew Rhubarb, not much like those enterprising people in Britain but enough to make a few bottles of wine.
I ❤️ rhubarb. It's also popular in the southern US. I wish it was available year round in 🇺🇸.
Where there is a market, it is available chopped and frozen year round. In Gainesville, FL, maybe because of professors from Europe or the North, it was commonly sold that way. Non college towns in FL rarely have it because it doesn't grow there and is therefore unfamiliar. In Chicago, where rhubarb could actually grow (it certainly doesn't survive in the Deep South!), it is rarely available, probably because urban culture has degenerated to the point that few people know how to cook.
Very similar story to the Trebuchet, which unless it originates from the Trebuchet region of France, is merely a sparkling catapult.
After learning parts of it are toxic, my mom tried to get rid of the yard's old rhubarb plant so baby-me wouldn't poison myself. No matter what she tried it kept growing back. Only when she resorted to pouring some GASOLINE on it, did it finally stay dead. (I've asked and no, she didnt take the extra step of lighting a match to it, she still wanted the rest of the yard plants lol)
... Dammit. Now I want rhubarb pie and crisp. My grandmother made it like magic.
We use to dip rhubarb in sugar as kids. Carried around my grandma's sugar packets!
Sounds similar to ice wine, (with the cold making the grapes sweeter.).
Rhubarb growing anywhere? Tell that to the one I planted that died... :P
Me: What country do you come from
Simon: Yorkshire
I love eating rhubarb right out of the ground. Springtime is the best time for that