Making Freshly Picked Rhubarb Relish

by Editorial Board

June 19, 2022

From My Pantry with Sharyn Thompson

Name: Rhubarb Relish
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 1 quart (you can tell that this is an old recipe in quarts not cups) this is 4 cups finely cut rhubarb I cut off the leaves and placed them carefully in our covered garbage can, then rinsed the rhubarb and cut it into 1/4" slices of thin tender rhubarb stalks; 1 onion finely chopped; 2 cups of tightly packed light brown sugar; 1 cup of plain white vinegar; 1 cup of water; 1 tsp. Kosher salt OR 1/2 tsp. fine salt; 3/4 tsp. each of ground cinnamon, allspice and cloves (I did slightly rounded measurements of the spices); optional 3/4 tsp. of cayenne or crushed chillies (I used 1/4 tsp. of crushed chillies)