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I would love to preserve this sauce. I think it would can well. Anyone tried?
Hi, D’aun. There is a note below from “Nancy” saying that she did successfully can this sauce. Make sure to always follow proper guidelines for food safety when canning. Here is a great article with lots of information on canning: How To Can Food At Home.
My great grandmother had a rhubarb plant that she divided and gave to my mom when my parents married. Mom is now 90 years old, & that rhubarb plant still delivers!
Rhubarb is such an amazing plant! What is your favorite way to eat rhubarb?
My mother (Stella Van Vloten) was thrilled when Yankee first published this recipe (around 1996, I believe). It was also included in a cookbook published by Dave Maynard even earlier than that. She passed away in 1999, but I know that she is smiling down from above each spring when this recipe reappears in one of Yankee's publications! I still have her handwritten recipe notebook that includes this recipe from my Great-Aunt Selma. I wish I had children to bequeath this treasury of old recipes to when I'm gone. Thanks for publishing it once again - giving my mother credit for it, and making this old lady smile.
We love this, Anita! Thank YOU for sharing your story with us!
I made this rhubarb sauce. And I canned it. First, I followed the recipe exactly. I had 4 1/2 lbs of rhubarb so I adjusted the ingredients. It took hours for this batch to cool. I had to add some instant tapioca to thicken it to a consistency we like and I added more sugar. I reheated the sauce and put into hot 1/2 pint jars and used my water bath canner. I got 16 jars.
My Mom made the exact same rhubarb sauce. Her rhubarb pies I miss the pie. Delicious no strawberries just rhubarb.