Rhubarb upside-down cake
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Melt rhubarb, butter, sugar together in a cast iron skillet, then lay down clumps of sturdy dough onto the warm fruit, less like a blanket and more like a dowdy, misshapen comforter. It will feel a lot like a cobbler, and you’ll worry you’re doing something wrong. Put it in the oven. <br /> <br />The cake’s baking soda will pinch hit, making the batter rise on up to cover any spots of rhubarb you may have missed. (In this way, it’s like a tarte tatin you can’t mess up.) It will grow into a cake. Say a quick prayer and flip it upside-down. You’ll wonder again, briefly, if this is actually a cobbler. Trust it. <br /> <br />What you’ll reveal is an underside that’s a mess of girlishly pink, warm rhubarb jam perched smugly on top of a buttery crumb. "Did you think I wasn’t going to work?" it’ll coo. <br /> <br />This recipe is adapted from Saveur.
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