Rhubarb tart

Rhubarb tart
Type Tart
Main ingredients Pastry shell, rhubarb

Rhubarb tart is a tart filled with rhubarb.

Mrs Beeton's recipe requires half a pound of puff pastry, five large sticks of rhubarb and quarter of a pound of sugar with a little lemon juice and lemon zest to taste. This is baked for 30 to 45 minutes and serves five people at a cost of ninepence.[1]

Rhubarb was used medicinally as a purgative and this caused it to have unpleasant associations. To make the dish more acceptable, rhubarb tart was sometimes renamed Spring apples in the 19th century.[2]

In the arts

Rhubarb tart was celebrated in the radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again in which it was a running joke. Examples included the pun Rhubarb Tart of Omar Khayyam (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) and The Rhubarb Tart Song which went:[3]

...
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart!
A whatbarb tart? A rhubarb tart!
I want another slice of rhubarb tart!
...

Notable consumers

References

  1. ↑ Isabella Mary Beeton, The book of household management
  2. ↑ "The Garden", Blackwood's Magazine, February 1853
  3. ↑ Jack Staub, 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden
  4. ↑ Albany Fonblanque, "Von Raumer's England", England under seven administrations, 3
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