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Healthier Moist Rhubarb Cake

Course Afternoon Tea, Dessert
Cuisine Edwardian, English
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup applesauce
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 cup of buttermilk (milk with a squeeze of lemon)
  • 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 cups rhubarb, chopped
  • 1/4 cup Stevia
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 350ºF
  • Mix the applesauce, brown sugar, and egg, then mix in the milk & vanilla.
  • Add the flour, salt, and baking soda and mix well combined and fold in the chopped rhubarb.
  • Pour in to a greased 9 inch cake tin.
  • Mix together the extra sugar and cinnamon, and scatter evenly over the cake batter.
  • Bake for 60-70 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.

Notes

Sadly I never met my Mother in Law as she passed before I married Lord D.  I did take care to bring her rhubarb plant home with me which blesses me each year with a great yield of fresh all summer long. I give some to friends and neighbors and have a number of rhubarb recipes from the Edwardians which I have adapted.