Strawberry Rhubarb Stoop

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Rhubarb and strawberries meet up on this stoop recipe just like a fruit cobbler

I used to be launched to rhubarb by way of desserts at a younger age due to my father.

Like his fast household, my dad has an enormous candy tooth and a particular love for any kind of selfmade baked goodie. Because the oldest of 5 youngsters, he was infamous for rapidly consuming his dessert after which serving to himself to the portion of the sibling who had the misfortune of sitting subsequent to him at dinner.

He grew up on and surrounded by farmland in northwestern Pennsylvania the place rhubarb abundantly resurfaced yearly within the household backyard. He remembers his mother merely stewing rhubarb stalks in sugar till they was delicate, runny, sweet-tart goodness.

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Through the years as I spent extra time within the kitchen, any recipe that featured rhubarb was an automated rip-out from {a magazine} or dog-eared in a cookbook to check out on my dad. Being from a big household, he’d eat all of it – whether or not it was perfected or not.

A rhubarb stoop recipe turned a favourite over 15 years in the past – torn from a Cooking Ligh tsituation – lengthy earlier than web sites, recipe apps or blogs had been in vogue. Through the years, I’ve revised and tweaked it to my very own model (recipe beneath.)

So, what the heck is a stoop?

Generally additionally known as a grunt, a stoop is just like a cobbler because it’s a fruit concoction with biscuit-like dough dropped into the sauce however in contrast to cobbler, it’s cooked on the range as a substitute of within the oven.

For this stoop, relying on how a lot rhubarb I’ve, I exploit kind of strawberries – aiming for about 6 whole cups in lower fruit and vegetable (sure, rhubarb is technically a veggie.)

Some extra rhubarb details:

• Is a wild cousin to celery
• Very bitter in style
• Solely the stalks are edible, the leaves are toxic
• Offers fiber, Vitamin C, Okay, potassium and calcium
• Freezes nicely
• Is utilized in each candy and savory dishes

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