first make the pastry, always took the lazy approach with this and used shop bought stuff. I was put off as I had heard it was difficult to make pastry, its not!
175g plain flour (6oz)
75g butter
pinch of salt and 2-3 tablespoons of water.
mix everything together apart from the water so it looks like crumble mix. use your hands not a food processor you lazy git. now add the water a little at a time untill the mixture binds together. knead it for a little then wrap it in an old bread bag or plastic wrapper of some kind and put it in the fridge for a bit.
now cut up some rhubarb stalks and collect a load of cherries off the trees. (loads in Bristol at the moment). put them in a pan with some orange juice, ginger and 2 tablespoons of sugar (use more if you don't like tart rhubarb) - top up with water then boil until the rhubarb starts to almost seperate. whilst this is boiling away get your pastry and roll it out to make the base. put this is in a greased tin and then put the drained* mixture in the oven. bake untill the pastry is cooked. You might be able to do without the first boiling, but this is just the way I did it.
The leftover juice can be bottled and used in cocktails, I think it goes well with a big measure of gin.
