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This cinnamon streusel rhubarb bread is an easy, blend by hand, moist and smooth quickly bread jam packed with contemporary rhubarb and a double dose of cinnamon streusel.

INGREDIENTS FOR THE BREAD: 1 1/2 cups loosely packed brown sugar 1/2 cup canola oil 2 eggs 1 cup buttermilk 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 cups rhubarb, cut into 1/4-inch pieces FOR THE STREUSEL: 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup flour 4 tablespoons butter, melted 2 tablespoons cinnamon INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 350°F and grease NULL 8×4-inch loaf pans. In a extensive bowl, whisk collectively the brown sugar, oil. egg, buttermilk, and vanilla till no clumps of brown sugar remain. Slowly whisk within the flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring till simply combined. Stir within the rhubarb. To make the streusel topping, combine all of the streusel meals right into a small bowl and whisk till the combination resembles coarse crumbs. Pour 04-Jan of the batter into every one of the loaf pans, utilizing half the batter, total. Sprinkle half the streusel over the loaf pans, urgent down gently into the batter. Carefully unfold the last batter over equally loaf pans, topping with the last streusel. Bake 45-50 minutes, or till a tester inserted into the middle of the bread comes out with a damp crumb. Cool for 10 minutes within the pan, then prove onto a wire rack and permit the bread to cool. Cut with a serrated knife. NOTES Cinnamon streusel rhubarb bread could be kept in an hermetic container at room temperature for four days, or frozen wrapped in plastic wrap and kept in a freezer bag for as much as 3 months. Thaw to room temperature previous than enjoying.

Cinnamon Streusel Rhubarb Quick Bread: a moist, smooth quickly bread jam packed with contemporary rhubarb and a double dose of cinnamon streusel layered into the bread and coating the top.  {Bunsen Burner Bakery}

If you comply with much of meals blogs (which I do), you may observe a specific subject matter this time of year.  The sun begins growing just a bit previous and placing just a bit later within the northern hemisphere.  The temperatures bounce to get just a bit warmer.  The first daffodils bounce to sprout.

And… every one meals blogger in existence stocks a rhubarb recipe.

Rhubarb.  It’s just like the pumpkin spice latte of the meals running a blog world: it’s no longer spring except you’ve baked with rhubarb and made specific everybody else is aware of that you’re utilizing the strangest, trendiest of spring vegetables.  Guilty as charged.

Two years ago, this rhubarb basic syrup which went into Rhubarb Collins.  Last year, strawberry rhubarb oatmeal bars.  And this year, I can also be fulfilling my contractually required meals blogger rhubarb recipe with this Cinnamon Streusel Rhubarb Bread, serving as my fifth recipe in my year-long Quick Bread of the Month series.

Seriously, why can we even consume rhubarb?  I can reply that on a private degree — simply due to the fact my CSA provides it to me every one yr — but how did we, as a species, bounce consuming rhubarb?  It’s stalky, it’s bitter, and oh yeah… it’s poisonous.  Grab a stalk and bounce chewing, everyone!

Cinnamon Streusel Rhubarb Quick Bread: a moist, smooth quickly bread jam packed with contemporary rhubarb and a double dose of cinnamon streusel layered into the bread and coating the top.  {Bunsen Burner Bakery}

WHAT IS RHUBARB?
Rhubarb is a stalky vegetable, identical to celery.  Unlike celery, however, rhubarb is tart — so tart, in fact, that it’s very hardly ever fed on uncooked and virtually at all times cooked with plenty of sugar.  In fact, simply due to the fact it’s used like a fruit in baking so much, a New York court docket deemed rhubarb a fruit for tax purposes, even although it’s truly a vegetable.

Cinnamon Streusel Rhubarb Quick Bread: a moist, smooth quickly bread jam packed with contemporary rhubarb and a double dose of cinnamon streusel layered into the bread and coating the top.  {Bunsen Burner Bakery}

IS RHUBARB TOXIC?
Have you ever questioned why rhubarb bought on the grocery shop is offered as simply the stalks, whereas different vegetables, like beets, include the greens nonetheless attached?  It’s time for my favourite subject… kitchen chemistry!

KITCHEN CHEMISTRY
Don’t consume rhubarb leaves!  Rhubarb leaves  include oxalic acid — a lowering agent.  The conjugate base (high faculty chemistry flashback!) of oxalic acid is oxylate, which chelates steel cations —  meaning that oxalic acid is high-quality at elimination rust.

Oxylate is the primary energetic aspect in Bar Keeper’s Friend.  And yet someone, somewhere, decided we ought to cultivate this plant for human consumption.  I’m a vast fan of utilizing all components of a vegetable and in many instances make pesto out of beet greens or carrot tops, but steer clean of these rhubarb leaves!

(On a sensible note, you are going to have got to consume a totally ridiculous quantity of rhubarb leaves — anything within the region of 10 kilos — to the truth is die from a deadly dose of oxalic acid.)

Cinnamon Streusel Rhubarb Quick Bread: a moist, smooth quickly bread jam packed with contemporary rhubarb and a double dose of cinnamon streusel layered into the bread and coating the top.  {Bunsen Burner Bakery}

HOW TO MAKE CINNAMON STREUSEL RHUBARB BREAD
Back to the rhubarb bread at hand.  You recognise how a few quickly breads are truly dense and strong and right for a smear of butter or jam?  This isn't that bread.  Thanks to oil, buttermilk, and a entire lot of rhubarb, this bread is soft, moist, and filled with cinnamon streusel crumbles.

Literally filled with them – there’s a layer within the middle of the bread, moreover a coating on top!  Be ready for streusel crumbles anywhere ought to you slice the bread…. I especially mean chopping it forward of time so that you'll be able to consume all of them your self previous than sharing the relaxation of the bread.  Not that I did that previous than bringing the relaxation of the bread into the lab or anything.  Nope.  Not at all.

Oh, and did I point out how basic this cinnamon streusel rhubarb bread is to make?  One extensive bowl for the batter, one small bowl for the streusel, and a whisk.  That’s all you need.  The easiest.

Cinnamon Streusel Rhubarb Quick Bread: a moist, smooth quickly bread jam packed with contemporary rhubarb and a double dose of cinnamon streusel layered into the bread and coating the top.  {Bunsen Burner Bakery}

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR CINNAMON STREUSEL RHUBARB BREAD
Because this recipe consists of baking soda, make specific to make use of buttermilk.  We need the acidity of the buttermilk to turn on the baking soda so the bread rises.  Don’t exchange in traditional milk!
If you don’t have buttermilk, make your private equivalent to buttermilk by combining one cup of milk with one tablespoon of lemon juice and vinegar.  Let this sit for 5 minutes previous than stirring into the batter.
Cut the rhubarb into small items – since rhubarb is so stalky, we desire to make specific every one piece is simply no longer any increased than chew size.
Cut the totally cooled bread with a serrated knife to assist slice by means of all of the delicious streusel topping!

MORE RHUBARB RECIPES:
Rhubarb Simple Syrup
Rhubarb Tom Collins
Strawberry Rhubarb Oatmeal Bars
Blueberry Rhubarb Pie
Almond Rhubarb Cake
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Cinnamon Streusel Rhubarb Bread

CINNAMON STREUSEL RHUBARB BREAD
An easy, blend by hand, moist and smooth quickly bread jam packed with contemporary rhubarb and a double dose of cinnamon streusel.