~ Eli's Rhubarb Cake

Dear Fans of Hounds Who Cook,

We dogs have come up with a way for our girl to use Rhubarb. I, Elias, have today mixed up this pleasure for the relations who are coming this early afternoon. I started with a NotWithoutSalt.com blog recipe and hound-dogged it from there.

Eli's Rhubarb Cake in June

2 cups rhubarb
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, soft
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup keefer (or sour milk, or yogurt)
2 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Cover the chopped rhubarb with 1/2 cup sugar and let sit for an hour.

Cream the butter and brown sugar. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Stir in rhubarb mixture

In separate bowl, combine flour, salt, soda, and cinnamon. Add dry ingredients and milk to rhubarb mixture, alternately, in several batches, ending with dry ingredients.

Turn into buttered 9" pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Store covered.

Notes from Guthrie: I would have sprinkled this with a sugar-nut topping before baking but Elias did not.