Rhubarb Brown Betty
Ingredients:

  • 1½ cups stewed Washington Rhubarb

  • 1½ cups moist bread crumbs

  • ¾ cup sugar

  • 1½  teaspoons cinnamon

  • 1½ tablespoons butter

  • 2 tablespoons grated orange rind

  • ⅓ cup water

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    Directions:
    Place half of rhubarb in buttered casserole.  Combine bread crumbs, sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle one-half over rhubarb and dot with half the butter.  Repeat with remaining rhubarb, crumbs and butter.  Sprinkle with orange rind, add water and cover.  Bake 375° for 35-40 minutes.  Serve with hard sauce or foamy sauce.  Yields: 6 portions.
     
    Courtesy of:
    Washington Rhubarb Growers Association
    253-863-7333

    We harvest Washington rhubarb from hothouses January through March and then hand cut from fields April through September.  The colorful plant is grown in our valley, in the shadow of Mt. Rainier.

    www.ci.sumner.wa.us