This is an experiment with the Portfolio Slideshow plugin, using rhubarb muffins photographed almost exactly 2 years ago.
And speaking of rhubarb … This was a pretty good batch of muffins – I felt I had perfected my rhubarb muffin recipe. I have good luck with rhubarb & cake, and rhubarb and crumble – like rhubarb crisp, and even rhubarb pie – but think I am just going to have to give up on rhubarb and custard. This time of year I always get enchanted with rhubarb custard tarts and they never come out as well as other rhubarb preparations.
Last year, I featured rhubarb custard tart as part of a spring cooking class. I liked a recipe fron the restaurant at the UK National gallery, and I even bought a flan ring, especially for making it. It came out looking almost exactly like the picture, except it didn’t brown – the reason being, that even though I had macerated the rhubarb in sugar as the recipe instructed, I forgot to add the rest of the sugar to the custard.
Last night I tried out this recipe from Saveur. I just had a piece for breakfast. Again, pretty good, but even though I pre-baked the crust, it’s a little underdone on the bottom. The custard is good – I like the technique of mixing the rhubarb-sugar-juice back into the custard, instead of not, as in the Brit recipe – although I was thinking of trying to re-create the rhubarb syrup with vanilla and gin cocktail I had at Fifteen, when we were in London (it was a special that night, and not on the regular drinks list) the using the excess rhubarb juice. The rhubarb got cooked through – but the texture of the two together are not quite right – smooth custard and squishy rhubarb = NOT a match made in heaven.
In fact, the best combination of rhubarb and cream that I can think of is trifle with rhubarb pureé, layered in with the cake crumbs and custard … er, no, make that rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream … or warm rhubarb crumble with ice cream … hmm, thought I just had breakfast.
And Portfolio Slideshow works way better than any of the rhubarb custard tart recipes I’ve tried. <grin> In fact, I think it can do what I’ve not been able to make my other image gallery do (the function that comes with the theme I am using) do – insert another picture into the same post, that’s not in the gallery. er well, I guess they’re in the slideshow, but they show up as block images too.
Saveur Rhubarb Custard Pie
Saveur Rhubarb Custard Pie
Saveur Rhubarb Custard Pie
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