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my mom always had rhubarb and make pies all the time.
posted by
Lanetay
on February 21, 2015 at 7:11 AM
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Re: adnohr
I don't think you would relish rhubarb with salt these days . I don't mind it if it has been forced as it comes in before the other fruits. But having been nearly killed by drinking rhubarb wine on top of a box of chocolates, I am still wary.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 21, 2015 at 7:09 AM
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I know Justi it is vile after it has been piled in heaps , we has to shift ours every week.
Don't eat the leaves.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 21, 2015 at 7:04 AM
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Kabu when I had poultry If there were two hundred in a house one knew each vaguely
well not quite but one could pick out an ailing hen by instinct. A quick snick and the biddy was sale-able . Not so if she died the next day.More about this later.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 21, 2015 at 7:02 AM
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Oh I hate the smell of chicken manure and people used to spread it on their farms the whole neighborhood would smell bad. I have never eaten rubarb, I must do that.
posted by
Justi
on February 20, 2015 at 10:52 PM
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Are those the same chooks who provided the manure? It does smell ghastly - I can remember holding my nose near the chicken yard. When we were kids my brother and me would sneak rhubarb from the patch and eat it with salt scraped from the cow licks. Love the stuff - in pies or jams or stew...with or without strawberries, and more sugar now though, as your poem decrees.
posted by
adnohr
on February 20, 2015 at 7:38 PM
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Re: Re: Kabu
clever you i cannot lie...they are the same chooks. If i knew what to do for them in the winter, i would have chooks here...just three.
posted by
Kabu
on February 20, 2015 at 5:35 PM
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cct
rhubarb pie i have not had a slice of one since i was a child and my grandmother made it. i remember it was delicious. things that grew in kansas do not do well here in florida, it is to hot and humid and up until lately, not enough cool weather in the winter for some plants.
posted by
jeansaw
on February 20, 2015 at 12:27 PM
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Re: CCT
Well you should plant a clump and put an old dustbin over it to get a forced early crop Naut. At one stage Archie and yours truly had to dig a ton or more a week of chicken manure into the ground, It kind of disillusioned me in the end.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 20, 2015 at 10:26 AM
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Yes one can talk for hours when shoveling Sh**** Bill.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 20, 2015 at 10:21 AM
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CCT
I love rhubarb, but I can do without the smell of chicken manure, though it does bring back memories...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 20, 2015 at 9:27 AM
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Manure's good all around talk sir.
posted by
BC-A
on February 20, 2015 at 7:54 AM
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Re: FS.
I prefer rain any day. Yes well one can always eat the cream and the pastry.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 20, 2015 at 12:00 AM
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Re: ChiffChiff
Well Bro I'm sure she would appreciate it, She is a lovely lady really.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 19, 2015 at 11:57 PM
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Re: Annicita
Well I don't know A, I have never had the pleasure of lifting the dear lady.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 19, 2015 at 11:53 PM
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Re: Kabu
Hey they are the same chooks. I can tell a one chook from another. Sometimes I feel I would like two or three just to scratch around.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 19, 2015 at 11:52 PM
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Yes Jimmy as we know ladies are sensitive about little things. I was put on steroids and developed a pot belly it was not very pleasant. Fortunately it receded over time.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 19, 2015 at 11:48 PM
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Re:Pat
Yes that was a nice mixture Pat I bet you all tried to get the strawberries. Three thousand
hens and the houses were then built around the smallholding. It began to become obvious who was the odd man out,
posted by
C_C_T
on February 19, 2015 at 11:44 PM
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ChiffChiff
I'll send ya over some Cdn coffee and that will give Archie's wife a lift.
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 19, 2015 at 8:10 PM
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does archie's wife weigh a lot?
posted by
Annicita
on February 19, 2015 at 4:12 PM
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We have not had much rain during this winter. It comes instead in snow and ice...I can just picture that rhubarb pie.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 19, 2015 at 4:11 PM
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rhubarb cobbler...haven't had one for too long...
I don't mind the chook yard, s'pose I grew up with it. Wealways had black hens that layed nice brown eggs. mother's favorite type.
posted by
Kabu
on February 19, 2015 at 3:08 PM
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I guess that proprietor was getting a bit too friendly! One always has to be careful of what we say to whom! As they say, the walls have ears! And I've never heard of chickens being associated with 'evil smells.' Perhaps that's why people gobble them up . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on February 19, 2015 at 2:06 PM
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Mother used to bake a strawberry-rhubarb pie, all home grown.
She had a touch with pastry, which of course we children did not appreciate since we had no others to compare - now, of course, we know. There's much to be said for the home grown, home cooked - although I agree with your mother about the eau de chicken manure.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 19, 2015 at 1:47 PM
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