Rhubarb Crisp recipe

May 19, 2021recipesusanmanzke

Friends helped me eat the Rhubarb Crisp I made and then asked for the recipe.

Start by getting rhubarb. My neighbor let me pick all I wanted.

Remember to cut off leaves and bottom of the stem, and then dice the stalk.

Rhubarb Crisp recipe

Crust:

2 cups flour, 1 cup butter, ½ cup powdered sugar

Combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter until mixture clings together. Press in 9 X 13 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.

Filling:

3 cups sugar, ¾ cup flour, 1 tsp. salt, 1 ½ tsp. baking powder, 4 eggs, one 3 ounce package cherry or strawberry Jello, 4 cups diced raw rhubarb

Stir together sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, and Jello. Beat eggs until fluffy and add to dry ingredients. Mix well. Add rhubarb. Pour into baked crust and bake 35 minutes at 350 degrees.

Share with friends.

Low-cost family fun

May 18, 2021Columns, Family, funsusanmanzke

This column from May 1988 tells how the Manzkes had fun with bubbles–big bubbles and little bubbles.

If you want to make a big bubble take an old T-shirt, cut a circle from around the lower half of shirt about an inch wide. Tie two dowels to material with 1/3 of the material between dowels and the rest hanging down. Dip material into soap mixture, pick up and slowly pull dowels apart. This should give you a big bubble.

Bubble recipe: 6 to 1 — 6 cups of water to 1 cup of Dove dish soap. I never added corn syrup or glycerin. Do not mix vigorously because you’ll foam the mixture which isn’t good for making bubbles.

Farm work

May 17, 2021Farmingsusanmanzke

Though Bob isn’t here to work, others continue to work on Sunnybook Farm.

The Maass crew had their hands full empting the fertilizer out of a spreader wagon. It had been in there three years. Bob had tried to put this fertilizer on the fields but had trouble, so he planted without spreading this starter.

Finally it is out of the wagon, though it was a chore.

I’m grateful it is not out where it can do some good for the soybeans that are being planted today.

Many thanks to the Maass family

The Bond falls

May 16, 2021Family, funsusanmanzke

Rebecca and Andy took me for a ride to see two waterfalls in Michigan today.

It was a beautiful day.

We started out in fog, but the day brightened as Andy drove us north.

Canyon Falls had a tricky trail, with a lot of roots and rocks, but I watched my step and didn’t fall. Yay for me.

Call of the wild

May 15, 2021Car-E, catssusanmanzke

The cat screech at the beginning of this video is Cruella. She doesn’t like it when Car-E even comes close to her. This time they tumbled, but all is well.

Some people have heard this screech, but not many. I’ve been trying to catch Cruella on video, but it has been difficult. After Cruella yells at Car-E she runs away.

My two house cats are very different. Car-E likes to play, Cruella doesn’t. They can both be sweet, but if Car-E is on my lap the other avoids us. If Cruella is sitting sweetly and Car-E comes by, her fur puffs up and she hisses.

I am an unwilling pawn in these confrontations. Sad for me as I love them both.

Susan Manzke

Writer, Speaker, All-Around Good Person

Rhubarb Crisp recipe

Low-cost family fun

Farm work

The Bond falls

Call of the wild