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Canning Rhubarb

Filed Under: Canning ingredients Tagged With: Rhubarb

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Rhubarb home canning recipes

Here is our growing collection of rhubarb recipes for home canning.

 

A general word about rhubarb

Rhubarb is one of those ingredients that is like prized gold to home canners.

Rhubarb used to grow in abundance like a weed in people’s backyards and at the sides of houses and paths, prospering through neglect. It’s long since fallen out of fashion with foodies, and been dug out to make way for more fashionable plants, or, the backyards built over to increase urban density.

Consequently, in stores it’s now quite pricey, and it’s very rare to get it for free from someone who begs you to take bags of it away and use it. It’s joined the ranks of green tomatoes as an ingredient people plot how to get hold of.

Whatever you do, do not eat, let alone can, the leafy part. Rhubarb “greens” are highly toxic. Use only the stalks. During WW1, overly-eager Extension Agents encouraged Americans to eat rhubarb leaves as a supplement to fresh vegetables, which added a few home front casualties to the overall toll of the war.

See here for more general information and history about rhubarb.

 

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Filed Under: Canning ingredients Tagged With: Rhubarb

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