So the second harvest this spring is rhubarb. Last year we used it in raspberry jam. This year we thought there was enough to make a rhubarb something or other all by itself. Our neighbor Lisa combined her rhubarb harvest with ours, and we had 8 cups of sliced rhubarb. Nice. We were thinking 4 pint jars of rhubarb in syrup. We stirred 2 cups of sugar into the 8 cups of rhubarb. Then refrigerated overnight. It's the easiest canning we have done - bring to a boil and put in the jars. Process for 15 minutes. It turned out beautiful.
But we only got 2 pint jars. Hmmmm. It's very tasty, but one jar per 4 cups of sliced rhubarb - I'm not sure it's the best use of our crop. We instantly decided to grow more rhubarb - this year we'll plant a couple more plants and have rhubarb in syrup without regretting what else we could have done with the harvest.
I hope I can get the rhubarb to grow here, otherwise plant a extra couple plants for me :)
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