Love learning about kitchen hacks and healthy food? Follow on Pinterest or like HealthyGreenSavvy on Facebook to keep up with the new ones I share every day! IS RHUBARB JUICE GOOD FOR YOU? If you don’t want to make rhubarb fruit leather, you can make a simple rhubarb compote or rhubarb sauce, but do make use of that yummy rhubarb! When someone on one of my neighborhood lists asks if anyone has some, they always get numerous offers of rhubarb.) Even if you’re not growing it, there’s very likely someone nearby who hasn’t realized how awesome the rhubarb growing in their garden is. (Except you can totally get your rhubarb for free. This rhubarb juice recipe makes TWO delicious rhubarb concoctions, rhubarb leather or sauce AND rhubarb juice. Why on earth would you want to waste all that yummy food? Most recipes for rhubarb juice have you strain and throw away the rhubarb, but this boggles my mind. I love that rhubarb juice is basically a freebie you get when you’re making something else. Live and learn ? TWO RHUBARB RECIPES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE She considered upping the price of the pretty pink rhubarb lemonade when customer after customer asked for it. Much to her surprise, most folks stopping at her stand for a cool drink opted for the rhubarb lemonade, even without a discount! I eventually persuaded her to price the rhubarb-added drink the same as plain lemonade, and she begrudgingly made a new sign.
My 6-year-old had low expectations for rhubarb lemonade The sign she made before she opened her stand suggested she, too, underestimated the value of rhubarb juice:
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Here’s more on why and how to go zero waste.)īut try as I might, I couldn’t drink enough sparkling rhubarb soda to warrant keeping the many quarts of juice leftover from a big batch of rhubarb leather.īut when my 6-year-old decided she wanted to try running a lemonade stand right after we’d made fruit leather, I gave her a few quarts of rhubarb juice to add to her lemonade as a second option. One of these easy-to-use little home soda makers will save you so much money and keep so much plastic out of the waste stream. (If you’re still buying bottles or cans of fizzy water, I beg you to stop. Rhubarb spritzer turns out to be a delicious thirst-quenching drink! I love refreshing tart drinks on hot days, so I started saving a little of my rhubarb juice to add to my homemade seltzer. It was a gorgeous pink color but VERY tart, so as someone determined to avoid wasting anything in the kitchen (see these root to stem recipes for proof!) I started to wonder what else could be done with it. I would cook up huge pots of rhubarb for leather-making, and the leftover cooking liquid mostly got poured down the drain. You can get my recipe for homemade fruit leather made from rhubarb and taste for yourself what all the fuss is about.īut rhubarb juice, that was something I didn’t fully appreciate for many years.
Some has also become rhubarb crisp or rhubarb sauce or gone into some of the other delicious uses for rhubarb, but most of it heads to the dehydrator to become beautiful rounds of tart-sweet rhubarb leather. The vast majority of rhubarb picked from these beloved plants have been turned into the rhubarb leather I adapted from Mary Bell’s original recipe. Soon after, I got my hands on my very first rhubarb divisions, which I’ve now re-divided into 8 lovely rhubarb plants that thrive in our tiny 1/10 acre corner lot. I was blown away by the flavor and joined the rhubarb fan club right then and there. I can date it to a dehydrating workshop over a decade ago, when dehydrating expert Mary Bell passed around samples of a homemade fruit leather she called rhubarb lace. My love affair with rhubarb has been going on for some time now.