Rhubarb cobbler!! Back to the olden days...

So, I did some gardening today... got some rhubarb so thought I better use it as soon as!

Fruit mixture
4C chopped rhubarb (1 cm slices)
3/4 C sugar
2T cornflour
1/2C orange juice (or 1/4C orange juice and 1/4C water)
1T butter

Put rhubarb in pot.
Mix sugar and cornflour together, then sprinkle over rhubarb. Add orange juice to pot. Stir, then add butter. Heat until mixture thickens and becomes clear.
Put into baking dish.

Topping
25g butter
1C self raising flour
1t mixed spice
1 egg
1/2 C milk

Melt butter and rub flour and spice into it.
Beat egg and milk together, then add to dry ingredients. Mix until just damp.

Drop spoonfuls of batter over thickened, hot fruit.

Bake for 20 minutes at 200, or until centre feels as firm as edges.

Serve hot or warm with icecream.

Our Miss Apprentice  was scared to eat this as she had heard rhubarb was poisonous... We had to explain that the leaves were, but the stalks were good to eat when cooked. Didn't help when her darling father decided to play a joke and pretend to choke on his first mouthful....