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RHUBARB DRINKSRhubarb juice is a delicate pink color and makes a wonderful summer cooler. The juice is made by simmering rhubarb in water, then straining and adding sugar to taste. Keep a bottle of rhubarb juice in the frig for hot summer days.
Rhubarb Punch Cut rhubarb in small pieces to make 4 cups.
Put in a large pot and add water and cook until fruit is soft.
Put a colander over a large bowl and pour the rhubarb and juice
into the colander. Allow to drain and discard rhubarb. Add sugar. Stir
until sugar is dissolved. Add fruit juices.
Chill and serve with crushed ice and an equal amount
of water or ginger ale.
Serves 12.
Rhubarb Cocktail Cook pink rhubarb cut in small pieces with an equal
measure of water until rhubarb is soft. Strain, measure. Add 1/3 as much
sugar and boil 2 minutes.
To ½ cup of this rhubarb juice, add pineapple juice,
orange and lemon juice. Blend. Serve over ice. Add ginger ale if
desired.
Rhubarb Punch 2 Simmer the rhubarb and water with the orange and
lemon peel until cooked. Strain.
Measure the liquid into a large pot.
Add 1/3 cup sugar for each 1 cup of rhubarb juice, stirring until
the sugar is dissolved.
Cool. Add the juice and the
zest of the oranges and lemons. Chill.
Add ginger ale.
Rhubarb Nectar Simmer the rhubarb, oranges and cinnamon for ten
minutes in a large pot.
Strain thoroughly. Strain
again through a cloth so the juice is clear.
Measure the juice, and for each cup of juice add 1/3 cup of sugar
(or less). Heat for 3
minutes to dissolve the sugar.
Cool and bottle.
Keep juice in the refrigerator and mix half-in-half with soda water or
ginger ale. Serve with ice
and decorate the glasses with a sprig of mint.
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