Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | June 11, 2025

First Receipt for Rhubarb-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

The first notation for rhubarb describing a tart is in a letter written the 22 September 1739 written by Peter Collinson, an English Quaker to John Bartram, a botanist and naturalist, in Philadelphia.  Collinson wrote that both Siberian and Rhapentick rhubarb (seeds he had sent Bartram prior) make excellent tarts before most other Fruits fitt for that purpose are ripe.  

The first notation for rhubarb describing a tart is in a letter written the 22 September 1739 written by Peter Collinson, an English Quaker to John Bartram, a botanist and naturalist, in Philadelphia.  Collinson wrote that both Siberian and Rhapentick rhubarb (seeds he had sent Bartram prior) make excellent tarts before most other Fruits fitt for that purpose are ripe.  

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