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For those of you who do not speak Swedish, that would be “My Grandmothers Rhubarb Pie” (barbarians ,) ). It is not a pie in the traditional sense with a bottom, but it does have a nice crust. When I made it the rhubarb turned out to have a very nice texture, and a taste which was slightly sour, but not very. Perfect, in my humble opinion ;)

So, let’s get to the good stuff…

Take about 500 gr. of rhubarb,
1 dl sugar,
2 tsp potato flour.
Put the oven to 225 degrees C.

Peel and slice the rhubarb, mix with the sugar and the potato flour and put in the oven for 10-15 minutes.

While the rhubarb are in the oven to pre-cook, it’s time to prepare the crust.

Take 100g butter,
1 dl rolled oats,
0.5 dl sugar,
1.5 dl flour,
0.5 - 1 tsp cardamom (depending on how much you like it).

Mix it all together. When you think the rhubarb are done, crumble the mixture on top of the rhubarbs (using spoons didn’t work for me) and make sure to have an even layer.
Put it all into the oven again until the crust has a nice golden colour. It should take about 10-15 minutes.

Serve with custard or ice cream.

You can of course use different fruit or berries, but you might not have to pre-cook them in that case, and you might have to use a different amount of sugar. I will try it out with raspberries and blueberries soon.

It’s been a while that anything happened on this blog; both Andreas and I didn’t live at places that were too inviting for cooking and stuff over the last month. That situation has somewhat improved now, and something else has changed: we’re now blogging from Stockholm, Sweden (and no longer from the Ruhr area in Germany).

The weather here has been really nice lately (summer!) — and what would a real summer be without lemonade…? I’ve been thinking about making my own for quite some time, and who knows, it might even happen one day. At least I’ve already found promising-looking recipes at Anne’s Food and at Chocolate&Zucchini.

In the meanwhile, I’m very happy that Andreas pointed out the shelf with Brämhults juices, fruit drinks and lemonade at our local supermarket. The lemonade is quite sour (20% lemon juice!) and very nice. Beats those weird artificial soft drinks without any problems.

And as soon as I’m back in New Zealand, I’m going to buy a bottle of Phoenix lemonade. Just too bad that it won’t be summer down there when I arrive.