I'm taking note of these recipes - I've only recently heard of putting strawberries with rhubarb (being an apple or orange juice/demerara sugar/bit of ginger person up to date) and I have some rhubarb ready for pulling. Ian's back from China and I've got the chance to use some, as the kids aren't fond of it.
When I was a kid, my mum used to give me a peeled stalk of rhubarb and some sugar on a saucer to snack on. I did read somewhere that if you boil the leaves you can use the liquid as an insecticide or something. Anybody else come across this? I can't remember where I read it, so I can't verify it.