biig wrote:
> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
> ...
>> MaryL wrote:
>>> I used to love rhubarb pie (made by my grandmother) and rhubarb as a
>>> side dish (made by my mother). We had a little rhubarb "patch," so
>>> it was always available. For those who don't know, it has a "tart"
>>> quality--and that's even after *lots* of sugar has been added. So,
>>> that means I no longer eat it. (
>> When we were wee, we used to have a stick of rhubarb and a bag of sugar in
>> which to dip it <munch, munch>
>>
> My grandma would give us sugar in a square of wax paper and we would sit
> out by the garden in her big wooden lawn chairs munching away.. These days
> I rarely make rhubarb recipes because of type two diabetes. .......Sharon
>
>
Well, you CAN use artificial sweeteners instead of sugar. The
trick, IMO, is to use more than one type of AS, because you need
the synergistic effect. Using sucralose, for example, produces a
rather flat-tasting end product.

--
Jean B.