A food question, but I’m looking for a factual answer.
When I was in Sweden many years ago (in Uppsala, in case it matters) my hosts served a dessert that was a green goo in one serving bowl and cream in another. I had no idea what it was, and had to admit I didn’t know how to eat it. To eat it, one puts some of the green pudding-stuff in a bowl and pours some cream on it and it is eaten with a spoon. IIRC it was rhubarb-based; only I’ve only associated rhubarb with red, and this was green. Perhaps my memory is faulty? Or there’s a Swedish plant that they call ‘rhubarb’ in English?
Can any Swedish Dopers tell me what this dessert is called?
Did the stuff differ in any significant way from Rhubarb compote?
Compote is yummy with cream, and even better with some little cinnaminy crunchy cakey sugary bits in it; although I forget what that dish is called.
I think of compote as being chunky. So I looked it up. The image does show a chunky concoction (rhubarb and apple compote). The stuff I had was smooth – no chunks. I hate to use the term in reference to this delicious dessert, but its consistency reminded me of snot. The colour was bright, but not quite ‘neon’ green.
The chunks in that concoction are the apples. Left to its own devices, rhubarb cooks down into a smooth, somewhat stringy glop. (er, a very tasty glop).
Scandinavian doper here. Never seen red rhubarb, but I can confirm a host of family recipes for rhubarb compotes, as well as a peculiar sort of rhubarb-fromage (though that is very family-centric, indeed, and we’re Norwegian, not Swedish) which is usually served with riced cream. Sounds about right, though it would have the consistancy of ricy porridge, not snot, if it was made my way
Swedish doper here =)
It sounds most definitely like a rhubarb compote.
To the norwegian doper, yes, there are in fact red rhubarbs… guess they only grow on this side (the nicer side ) of the border.
