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Gateau vite fait with rhubarb | French ‘quick cake’ recipe

11th March 2024 Anna Pettigrew Recipes

I can highly recommend trying this delicious French ‘quick cake’. You can customise it through the seasons, swapping apples or plums for rhubarb. SERVES 8 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Ingredients 150g (5oz) sugar, plus 2 tbsp for top of rhubarb 3 eggs 3 tbsp butter, melted 2 tbsp buttermilk (or milk) ½ vanilla pod, seeds scraped…

Brioche French Toast with Rhubarb Compote & Mascarpone Cream

17th May 2023 Arianne Davey Recipes

Kick off your weekend with this treat of a breakfast. You can make the compote the day before to save time. Serves 4Preparation time: 15 minutesCooking time: 25 minutes For the compote500g (17½oz) rhubarb100g (3½oz) sugar1 vanilla pod Remove the leaves of the rhubarb. Wash the stems and slice into about 3cm (1in) chunks. Place the chunks into a large…

Grow your own: Rhubarb

3rd March 2023 Alex Bestwick Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

Rhubarb is probably the easiest of all fruit and veg crops to grow since by and large it can simply be left to produce a harvest of colourful leaf stalks without much help from us. However, the best thick and tasty sticks will have been given just a little attention during the season. Rhubarb varieties ‘Timperley Early’Is a good one…

Podcast 72: Jobs for January

24th January 2020 Steve Ott Podcast

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Thanks for downloading episode 72 of the Kitchen Garden podcast. Steve, Emma and Tony have been bracing the cold to get some jobs done in the garden, including forcing rhubarb, fruit pruning and harvesting leeks.…

Mudketeers diary – 20th January 2020

20th January 2020 Steve Ott Blog

Forcing rhubarb It was such a glorious day, the sky was blue with not a cloud in it and the sun was almost warm. I decided to tidy the rhubarb which had started sprouting well due to the mild weather. I pulled off the dead stems and also most of the larger red stalks. Then I covered the plant with…

Good enough to eat!

22nd May 2018 Steve Ott News

As the Chelsea Flower Show gets under way, we reveal one of the top trends from members of the Society of Garden Designers – edible gardens. Evident in gardens large and small this year is a trend for incorporating edibles into floral displays. Tom Massey uses herbs, cleverly displayed on a planted-up building block wall, and exotic fruit trees –…

Mudketeers diary-28th March 2018

28th March 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Triffid tale Nothing makes such a dramatic entrance as rhubarb. It’s thick fleshy shoots emerge from the ground like a monster from the deep. All I need do now is to mulch with some garden compost around the base making sure I don’t get too near the emerging shoots or it could cause them to rot.…

Podcast 23: Question time

1st August 2017 Steve Ott Podcast

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Welcome to Question Time – Got a fruit or veg problem? Ask KG for help. This month’s expert panel: Guy Barter – RHS chief horticulturalist, Emma Rawlins – Deputy editor, Kitchen Garden magazine, David Patch – Professional nurseryman, R V Roger Ltd, Anne Swithinbank…

Roasted rhubarb with mascarpone

4th May 2017 Steve Ott Recipes

Rhubarb and mascarpone is a marriage made in a heaven where calories don’t count. This is a recipe to showcase the sweetest early stalks. Ingredients (serves two) 350g (12oz) young rhubarb, trimmed and cut into 4cm (1½in) lengths 3 tbsp orange juice 1 tbsp sherry 4 tbsp soft brown sugar 125g (4½oz) mascarpone 1. Put the rhubarb into an ovenproof…

Podcast 10: To heat or not to heat?

7th November 2016 Steve Ott Podcast

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast is here, packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. In this episode, the team take a look at the December issue which is in the shops now. Topics include beating whitefly, Growing cut flowers, Passionate plotters winners, Growing parsnips, Rhubarb, Annual herbs, Bamboo, Hotbed growing, Citrus fruits, a children’s tool rack project,…

Rhubarb and ginger jam

3rd May 2016 Steve Ott Recipes

Try this simple yet delicious recipe for making use of your bumper crop of rhubarb Once the rhubarb gets underway, there’s no stopping it. When the novelty of crumble has worn off, divert some of the later stalks into this excellent jam. Ingredients (makes two 454g/1lb jars) 700g (1lb 9oz) rhubarb, chopped 700g (1lb 9oz) sugar 40g (1½oz) crystallised ginger,…

Rhubarb and Spelt Upside Down Cake

14th March 2016 Steve Ott Blog, Recipes

Most gardeners will be well-acquainted with summery wild rhubarb, but pretty pink forced rhubarb is in season and perfect for winter baking In the UK, rhubarb celebrates two seasons. In summer, the sturdy, leafy and wild variety blooms; to the delight and, occasionally, despair of growers and gardeners. Wild rhubarb has a tendency to establish itself and rather take over…

Rhubarb & Buttermilk Scones

8th March 2016 Anna Pettigrew Recipes

These light delicious scones are great served still warm. MAKES8 • 175g (6oz) self-raising flour • 1 tsp baking powder • 50g (1oz) butter • 50g (2oz) sugar • 1 stick rhubarb, cut into 1cm pieces. • 125g (4oz) oats • 150g (5fl oz) butter milk • 1 egg 1. Preheat oven to 220C/200 fan/gas 6 2. Sift flour and…

Rice Pudding With Rhubarb Compote

7th March 2016 Anna Pettigrew Recipes

This is a lovely dish to serve up after dinner, with seasonal tangy rhubarb and sweet rice pudding. SERVES 4 FOR THE COMPOTE • 3 large oranges, (zest of 1, juice of 3) • 100g (3½oz) caster sugar • 600g (1lb 3oz) rhubarb (trimmed weight), cut into 2.5cm (1in) pieces FOR THE PUDDING • 500ml (17fl oz) full-fat creamy milk…