Rhubarb Cocktail Recipes
While the rhubarb I bought at the Farmers’ Market two weeks ago languished in the fridge, I was busy cooking up Mediterranean-style dishes and couldn’t work rhubarb onto the menu.
The Spruce: Rhubarb Plant Profile
The old recipe from my recipe box for rhubarb cake was off the table because A) it was too hot to turn on the oven and B) a whole cake was too much for two people who have been known to rummage in the freezer for hidden baked goods (usually cookies, but cake will do in a pinch).
Which brings us to the rhubarb cocktails! First I made Rhubarb Simple Syrup from the recipe in Summer Cocktails by Marta Del Mar Sacara.
One thing about cocktails is sometimes a recipe with a short list of ingredients looks deceptively simple. Then, when you look closer you realize how complicated each ingredient is. Before you mix up this tempting cocktail, you need to make and chill some rhubarb simple syrup; infuse vodka with strawberries (and let sit for 7 days); look up and purchase an ingredient you’ve never heard of; etc.
Not to mention the special glasses and the cocktail-making accoutrements! There’s a funny scene in The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory when cocktail-nerd Theo comes over to make Alexa (and Maddie) poolside margaritas. Maddie is expecting him to come in with margarita mix and whip up a few drinks and instead he directs her to start juicing a whole bunch of limes and he’s over at the stove cooking sugar.
I have strawberry-infused vodka and pineapple-infused rum started for future cocktails, but here are the rhubarb recipes I tried this week. Click the links in the captions for the online recipes for the last two :
basic daiquiri recipe in Summer Cocktails
Happy Weekend Cooking!
Weekend Cooking hosted by Marg @ The Intrepid Reader.
Rhubarb is grown and used in Mediterranean cooking, though I’m not sure about a cocktail. Your adventures in high-labor ingredients are amusing.
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What a brilliant and delicious solution for the languishing rhubarb! Among the things that might be languishing around here, rhubarb wouldn’t be in the mix. More likely pineapples, passionfruit (which I regularly turn into syrup) and guavas.
don’t take this the wrong way but when i saw that book cover saying it was an audio-book, i had to laugh. i saw something on telly the other night, where a character sniffs at audio-books, because “I can read!” he says disdainfully. soooo funny. (not having a go – honest!) i love the idea of making a proper cocktail with sugar syrup and real juice. Yum!
I just bought rhubarb the other day. I was thinking of roasting it and adding it to yoghurt for breakfast, or maybe an apple and rhubarb crumble. I do like the sound of the rhubarb margarita. I have the tequila, rhubarb and aperol. I would have to go and buy the rest!
I grew up eating rhubarb but it’s not popular here in the south. First time I brought home a rhubarb pie as atreat my husband tried it but he doesn’t care for it. Maybe you have to grow up with it as I did. I love youor ingenuity with the cocktails! Duing lockdown time what a greta idea!