Last spring rhubarb was planted. I didn't touch it for the first growth. As you can see it is alive and healthy. I didn't know the plant would form a Florette or a type of blossom. It looks like a cabbage. I am waiting to see how it develops.
RHUBARB PIE
4 cups of chopped rhubarb
1 1/3 cup white sugar
6 Tbs. of all purpose flour
1 Tbs of butter
recipe for a double crusted pie
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1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees
2. Combine sugar and flour
3. Sprinkle 1/4 of it over pastry in the pie pan
4. Heap rhubarb over the mixture
5. Sprinkle the remaining sugar and flour over rhubarb
6. Dot with small pieces or pats of butter
7. Cover top with pastry crust
8. Place pie on lowest rack of oven
9.Bake for 15 minutes
10. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees
and continue to bake for 40-45 minutes
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Serve hot or cold. I numbered the steps to make it easier to read. Oven temperatures will vary as will recipes. Supposedly rhubarb has medicinal value: I will have to look it up or find it on line. Rhubarb is tart so it is probably loaded with Vit. C, to say the least.
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The mower is finally running. Today I received a notice of a class action suite against Briggs and Straton, the motors that power most of the mowers and lawn tractors used in this country. Last summer my Yardman simply stopped dead and it wasn't even two years old. The engines have been over rated for horse power that they don't have. Of course, the little engines are now made in China, a country of few moral or ethical values. A country that continues to manufacture and sell us junk. We have little choice as every thing you go to buy is stamped "MADE IN CHINA." If Americans don't watch out and "get it," babies might start popping out stamped "MADE IN CHINA," too. How'd ja like dat?? Hmmmm????
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