Ruby Rhubarb Season

June – August

 

Each year, Thierry Jeanssen, whose farm is only fifteen minutes away from Tea Together, has grown a couple of rows of a ruby red rhubarb variety especially for us.

 

Whereas most rhubarb turns a dowdy green when cooked, Valentine has an exquisite colour that shines clear and bright in the final jam. It's hard to grow and French rhubarb buyers ask for green, to sprinkle on top of Tartes a la Creme. They know nothing and care less for the English tradition of shocking pink early forced rhubarb, so prized in British first puddings of Spring. Now we have found Valentine, and it makes the perfect jam along with a little Lemon and a few stems of Angelica from the Tea Together garden.

 

 

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