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I'm creating a Valentine's Day dessert using forced rhubarb. Can you give me any flavour paring or suggestions? They must be seasonal as strawberries in Winter just won't cut it!

Thanks in advance.

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I'm closing this as a poll. This can be reopened if you can come up with a more objective criteria for your pairing. See meta for some discussion on this type of question: meta.cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/1058/… – yossarian Feb 12 '12 at 1:53

closed as not constructive by yossarian Feb 12 '12 at 1:53

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You might find some inspiration at the below web site. Has a handful or untypical rhubarb recipes and a little blurb.

Rhubarb

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Ginger, made in heaven. Also mango (Richard Corrigan) - with or without ginger. Rhubarb and ginger crumble with vanilla ice cream is brilliant.

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If you are a good enough cook to want flavor pairings rather than a recipe, then you really must get a copy of The Flavor Bible. The book is organized alphabetically by ingredient. Each ingredient has a list of flavors / ingredients that work well. It is incredibly useful. They have about 60 flavor pairings for rhubarb, including some of the following items:

  • lemon
  • honey
  • cinnamon
  • hazelnuts
  • vanilla
  • ginger

They also have some suggestions for multiple pairings:

  • blood orange + caramelized sugar
  • caramel + orange
  • cardamom + sugar + vanilla
  • fennel + marscarpone
  • stilton cheese + port wine

BTW, I ignored your "seasonal" request as that's very localized and I don't know where you live anyway.

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