Rhubarb tart

Rhubarb tart
Type	Tart
Main ingredients	Pastry shell, rhubarb
	Cookbook: Rhubarb tart;

Mrs Beeton's recipe requires half a pound of puff pastry, five large sticks of rhubarb and quarter of a pound of sugar with a little lemon juice and lemon zest to taste. This is baked for 30 to 45 minutes and serves five people at a cost of ninepence.[1]

Rhubarb tart is a tart filled with rhubarb.

Rhubarb was used medicinally as a purgative and this caused it to have unpleasant associations. To make the dish more acceptable, rhubarb tart was sometimes renamed Spring apples in the 19th century.[2]

In the arts

Rhubarb tart was celebrated in the radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again in which it was a running joke. Examples included the pun Rhubarb Tart of Omar Khayyam (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) and The Rhubarb Tart Song which went:[3]

...
A rhubarb what? A rhubarb tart!
A whatbarb tart? A rhubarb tart!
I want another slice of rhubarb tart!
...

Notable consumers

Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, who wrote in his account of England that he was a "very industrious eater of rhubarb tart".[4]

References

Isabella Mary Beeton, The book of household management
"The Garden", Blackwood's Magazine, February 1853
Jack Staub, 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden
Albany Fonblanque, "Von Raumer's England", England under seven administrations, 3

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[1] Isabella Mary Beeton, The book of household management

[2] "The Garden", Blackwood's Magazine, February 1853

[3] Jack Staub, 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden

[4] Albany Fonblanque, "Von Raumer's England", England under seven administrations, 3