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RHUBARB BROWN BETTY

Ingredients:

450g (1 lb) rhubarb

115g (4 oz) fresh wholewheat breadcrumbs

50g (2 oz) Barbados sugar

2.5ml (½ tsp) ground ginger

50ml (2 fl oz) fresh orange juice from one fresh orange

250 ml (½ pint) natural yogurt, to serve

Rhubarb Brown Betty
Method:

  1. Trim the rhubarb and cut the stalks into short lengths. Put in a greased 900 ml (1½ pint) ovenproof dish.
  2. Mix the breadcrumbs, sugar and ground ginger together and sprinkle over the fruit. Spoon the orange juice over the crumbs.
  3. Bake: fan oven 150ºC electric oven 170°C, gas oven mark 3 for 30 - 40 minutes or until the fruit is soft and the topping browned.
  4. Rhubarb Brown Betty is equally good served hot or cold, with natural yogurt. Any leftover will also reheat well.
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