Wakefield Rhubarb, food and drink festival

This weekend is the annual rhubarb, food and drink festival held in Wakefield.It's a great event to attend, lots to see and do, plenty of free foods to sample and lots of local food producers selling their wares.Oldroyds farm in Carlton,Lofthouse, is the UK's leading producer of Yorkshire forced rhubarb and you can actually go on tours of the rhubarb sheds and it is reputed that you may even be able to hear the rhubarb growing! I haven't been on the tour so I can't vouch for that but I do like rhubarb, being a fairly recent convert, so we decided to pop along and see what was on offer.
You can just make out the lovely cathedral spire behind the food demonstration marquee.


As you can see we bought a lot of rhubarb products, not all are for us though, we got some things for our parents too.I find cupcakes to be quite sickly (I know they are all in vogue but I find them a bit claggy sometimes, all that gooey icing!) but the rhubarb in the cake mix was just sharp enough to cut through the sweetness and they tasted divine! We couldn't resist sampling the local beer, I am a real ale fan anyway and thought the rhubarb bitter was just gorgeous.You could smell the fruit in the beer and it had a real kick to it.
Even the pork pie was delicious (and I do not profess to be a big pork pie fan) with the hint of rhubarb.
Diet- what diet?

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