I plan on making lasagna today. I hope your cake comes out perfectly.

Watering flowers again...we need rain desperately. Wish I had a couple of your cookies for

my coffee break. :) The cake sounds good to me, too.

Uptown Gal we had a couple good downpours on Saturday and Sunday. A small tornado even touched down about 45 minutes south of the city. No damage was done though which is a good thing.

Not me. Too damned hot. I did make potato salad and boiled some eggs to put together a salad plate for dinner.

Love the sound of rhubarb cookies. :-)

Good idea to add some vanilla to the cake. I would be tempted to add a little salt if using unsalted butter, but that's just a taste preference. Let us know how everything turns out.

I'm making pastry dough today for a crostata later in the week...maybe berry.

I will have to try those rhubarb oatmeal cookies, they sound right up my alley!

Way back when my DD was about 6 years old, I made some strawberry rhubarb sauce - When she tasted it, she exclaimed "Mom! You should sell this!" LOL Her (must be inherited) love for tart flavors persists to this day.

raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio Do you have a recipe for the sauce? Sound delicious. And I don't know why this is in the font it is.... weird.

Debby a lot of people like adding strawberries to rhubarb, whether it's in pies or stewed rhubarb. I like it plain.

Raee probably just added strawberries as she was cooking her rhubarb down.

I hope the pound cake came out good. deginitely a scorcher today. I am cleaning the boat but taking my time. i took out some brats for dinner.

That makes sense. I have a container of stewed rhubarb (just the fruit and sugar that is cooked down) in the fridge. My husband likes it on toast.

My MIL always made a good pound cake. Here's her recipe.

1 lb butter; 1 lb confectioners sugar; 6 eggs; 1 1/2 tsp vanilla; 3 c. sifted flour; 1 tsp baking powder...bake at 325 for 1 hour or more in a 9-10" tube pan.

Have butter and eggs at room temp. Combine flour and baking powder. Cream butter well in bowl and gradually beat in sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla and gradually beat in flour mix. When thoroughly mixed and a silky consistency, pour into a well-greased tube pan and bake until cake springs back when touched and starts to leave the sides of the pan. Cool in the pan for 10 min and then put on a rack to finish cooling.

Just saw your update pic...looks darn good!

Yes, just rhubarb and strawberries cooked together with sugar. I sometimes add some grated lemon peel, as I do when making quince paste, or even some ginger or a touch of vanilla.

as Jasdip stated, it IS too hot for baking here today-averaging 88F and humid.

All I have done is sprinkle the feed on my flowering plants in the hopes that we do get rain to wash it in.

Debby, the pound cakes look yummy. Looking forward to the report on the rhubarb cookies.

A digression but I love rhubarb sauce, and the mention of it brought this to mind as another way to use rhubarb. This is really tasty with grilled pork or chicken.

Rhubarb and Dried Cherry Chutney (Makes 1 cup)

1 cup medium-diced fresh rhubarb
1/2 cup small-diced onion
1/4 cup coarsely chopped dried cherries (or dried cranberries)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup sherry wine vinegar (or red wine vinegar)
1 T. honey
1/2 tsp. finely grated lemon zest
1/4 tsp. kosher salt

Combine all ingredients in small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, cover, and simmer over medium to medium-low heat until onions are mostly translucent and juices are beginning to thicken, about 5 minutes. Uncover and simmer, stirring frequently with a heatproof spatula, until very thick, another 6-8 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan before storing in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

I love pound cake but have never attempted trying to bake it myself. Love anything with rhubarb in it. I made 2 rhubarb pies yesterday. First time I have baked anything in a long time. I was going to top the pies with meringue but decided to heat up some Devon custard instead and pour a bit over the piece of pie. Was very good. Your cakes look great

Looks good. No cooking or baking for me today. I did eat a tiny slice of the Summer cake I made yesterday. Back to work for me this evening after a couple week's off. Not looking forward to it.

Off subject a bit...but Debby'...wow, sure glad that Tornado didn't give you any damages..what

a terrible thing to have to watch and wait through, though. I guess I should stop complaining

about our drought...sure don't like the choice of terrible storms.

Uptown Gal, the tornado was southeast of Calgary a ways. We only had lots of rain that came straight now hard and pea sized hail. The area that got the tornado (An f0: no damage) wasn't close to us. Yet my emergency alert system kept going off on my phone! I think I almost pee'd myself at least 4 times because I was playing Candy Crush every time it went off. LOL

LOL....glad you are ok and no damage for your area anyway. Maybe the Candy Crush

was a good thing.

I baked Italian Christmas cookies today even though it was hot as 10 hells.

LOL Arkansas Girl....I've never heard that before...but I like it...that's what today is here, too.

They look delicious! Hope you'll report if they taste as good as they look.