picture by Rachael Brugger
Knobby rhubarb pushing itself up through the ground is a trusted sign of spring around here . In my northerly climate , we ’re still wait on berries and it will be months before stone fruits orapplesare in season , so it ’s always fun to make the first pieplant desserts . With no fourth dimension to make a Proto-Indo European , I simmer some pieplant in water until it achieve a sauce - like consistency , and then flavor it with honey and vanilla extract . you may also make a simple pieplant sauce with orange , maize or Ceylon cinnamon flavors to complement the notoriously tart still hunt .
rhubarb plant sauce can easy be store in your kitchen icebox orcannedfor pantry storage until you ’re ready to use it for a dainty . A dessert I late bring to friends is an upside - down patty , spiced with ginger and cardamom , in which my rhubarb sauce played a take role . fragile - slice uncooked rhubarb will forge just as well in this recipe , though , as the slice will soften nicely as the patty cooks on top of them .
You ’ll be intimate this cake because it ’s so simple to make , but do n’t rush for fork after you take it from the oven . allow the cake cool a minuscule but not exclusively before you pitch it . move a knife around the edges of the bar to undo it , then put an upside - down plateful on top of the baking dish . Hold the two securely together and flip them over . finally the cake will drop down onto the plate . If a small rhubarb plant stay in the looker , just scrape it up and spread it carefully over the cake .
This cake begs for vanilla chalk cream , but as a healthy substitute , I served it to my friend with a dollop of whole - milk yogurt .
Yield: 9 servings
Ingredients
Preparation
compound oats and water in large bowlful . ( If you choose not to boil water system , have oats sit for few hours . )
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Melt butter in an 8 - by-8 - in pan as the oven heats . Remove pan from oven and sprinkle the 1/4 loving cup sugar over bottom . Stir slightly , then spread out the rhubarb slices or sauce overtop . Set aside .
unify together flour , the remaining pelf , bake soda , bake powder , Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and spices .
Then beat egg and oil into the softened oat mixed bag . Combine the flour mix with the oat mixture , taking care not to over - mix .
Pour batter over rhubarb plant , spreading it equally . Bake for about 40 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center come out clean . Cool briefly and run knife around the edge . Invert pan onto serving record .
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