...and it's Rhubarb Pie Day!
Will you be celebrating this curious plant today? How about tucking into some rhubarb delight, smoothie or cake while discovering something of its strange and colourful history?
Check out our blog https://www.talesfromthepennybloods.org/post/triangles-teatime-and-foreign-river-roots
and find out it's long journey to the West, along with a couple of recipes from the past!
They have been out in the fields all day, and the baskets overflow with greens and brilliant pinks, bobbing across the landscape on the backs of the pickers. The amount is painstakingly weighed and recorded.Mr Plum dips his pen in ink and writes down the last basket of the day - the pink stalks will be shunted off to physicians, wealthy families, apothecaries - for they produce a prized medicine. It has been so for as long as anyone can remember. The plants have taken on a reputation that spread
Did someone say #RhubarbPie ?
(This is very exciting because rhubarb is actually kinda hard to find around here, and grocery stores rarely carry it. Back home everyone and their mother had at least on rhubarb plant in their yard and you often have to turn it down when people offer because you already have, like, 3 lbs of stalks and a pie in the fridge)
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