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Old 12-04-2004, 12:03 AM
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Default Rhubarb

No help with growing it but I can give you a "Killer" recipe for using
it! Once you eat this its all over but the crying!!!
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Rosy Red Rhubarb Cake

½ cup crisco
2 cups sifted flour
2½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup brown sugar
*** cut shortening into the dry ingrediants

1 egg slightly beaten
3/4 cup milk
*** add to mixture, mix well & spread in greased 9"x13" pan, pushing up
a little around the edges.

6 cups of finely diced rhubarb
1 small pkg of strawberry jello
*** spread the rhubarb over the shell & sprinkle the jello around

6 tbsp butter
1½ cups sugar
½ cups flour
*** mix thoroughly and spread over all

Bake @ 350º for 40-50 minutes
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homerpaul wrote:

Having moved into a new house I have inherited a rhubarb patch & fruit
trees, can somebody point me to a good website on how to look after
rhubarb & fruit trees.