[Magdalen] Rhubarb cookies

[Jay Weigel]

We had a clump of rhubarb out behind the garage of the house in Madison,
WI, where I grew up. It was there when we moved in, so who knows how old it
was. In any case, my mother not only made wonderful rhubarb pies, but
canned rhubarb sauce, which we ate throughout the winter (and it's pretty
good over vanilla ice cream, too). We kids also ate the stalks raw,
sprinkled with sugar (it took a LOT!) in summer. When I visited the house
in 2001, I forgot to see if the rhubarb was still there. I was never able
to grow rhubarb in Tennessee. I'd try it here, but it probably doesn't like
black walnut trees.

Around Madison, it was known as "Norwegian Ex-Lax".

On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> Re rhubarb (and it should be clear that this is NOT about rhubarb
> COOKIES):
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> My mother used to make some wonderful rhubarb pies during the
> spring season, and she also put up a rhubarb sauce served like
> a pudding, and to which she referred as "spring tonic".
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> I've had little rhubarb since my youth, though there was a company
> headquartered in Michigan called  "Chef Pierre" that put out a  wonderful
> rhubarb pie (among others) back in the 1980's, but I have been
> unsuccessful in finding them here recently.
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> To my surprise, Sam's (as in Wal Mart) occasionally carries rhubarb
> pie.  Sadly, the pie is essentially inedible, tasteless and  chewy.
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> David Strang.
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