Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Rhubarb in syrup

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.

1 comment:

  1. I hope I can get the rhubarb to grow here, otherwise plant a extra couple plants for me :)

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