A rhubarb tiki drink?! Preposterous! I have yet to come across a tropical drink utilizing rhubarb and excited to use this vegetable in a fresh, new way. I have whipped up Rhubarb cocktails in the past (a brown butter one and a rosé spiked rhubarb lemonade), but I wanted a new flavor profile to go alongside the rhubarb. Strawberry is a natural, if not cliché, pairing because of their natural sweetness. Pineapple has such a delicious acidity with a balanced sugar content that I found to pair beautifully with rhubarb. And thus the To Rue and Pine cocktail was born, ready to grace our mouths with it’s delicious, boozy nectar. Although the pink hue is alluring, rhubarb can be hard to work with. A vegetable, more accurately a petiole which connects the leaf to the stem much like celery, it needs to be cooked to tame it’s fibrous texture and sugar added to balance the bitterness. But the effort is worth is most certainly worth the reward. The sweet tart flavor of rhubarb is of course great for pies and desserts, but it is wonderful for cocktails as well. I made a syrup with the rhubarb to do just this and it […]
