Sentence examples for forced rhubarb from inspiring English sources
Beautiful forced rhubarb from Yorkshire seemed to be a real source of pride here in England.
My favourite winter ingredient – forced rhubarb – has just brightened my nearby greengrocer's shelves.
It is February and you love forced rhubarb, but you can't eat it every day.
By all means trip up to Wakefield this weekend to taste the world's best forced rhubarb.
Use bright pink forced rhubarb, if you can, not least because it looks so beautiful.
Every few years, you can also force rhubarb for delicious puddings, pies, jams and compotes.
This was the first place in the world to "force" rhubarb in special sheds.
More than 150 years ago, the Yorkshire growers developed a method of forcing rhubarb that requires a phenomenal amount of labour, but produces the longest, pinkest, most succulent shoots ever demanded by a picky chef.
Outdoor rhubarb can be forgotten when the colour and cheer of earlier, forced Yorkshire rhubarb is so revered.
Calum is as slow-witted as his sister is sharp; he is "too tall, too thin, slightly stooped, and his clothes hang off him like someone's dressed a stick.... What he made me think of was something that's been grown in the dark, forced, like rhubarb under a flowerpot -- tall and pale and spindly".
