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It is spring in Iowa and nothing green will be appearing for several weeks, even so, I am already dreaming of rhubarb.  Rhubarb cake, rhubarb crisp, rhubarb jam, rhubarb pie, rhubarb wine all make up my version of sugar plum dreams. As a vintage cookbook collector, I spend hours pouring over cookbook pages, not only looking for  treasured recipes, but for fun.  Many are a greatly entertaining.  A couple of things I’ve noticed in my purusing of antique cookbooks is that there are very few recipes that are truly original.  Even back in my oldest ones before 1900, I find recipes we see on the Food Network -- sure they have been tweaked and presented in modern fashion, but I am amazed at the sophisticated recipes I find in those well worn pages.   Even those cherished recipes from mom and grandma out of the church cookbooks are probably from a long forgotten cookbook, magazine or newspaper recipe -- I recently found what we thought to be my grandmother’s cookie “Norwegian Creams” in my 1963 first edition of the  Betty Crocker Cooky Cookbook. Sorry, I digress, that's another blog..… this blog is about a luscious rhubarb crunch recipe I found in the 1959 Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook.  Because the fruit mixture sauce is cooked and thickened on the stove prior to baking, I have found it is far more consistent than those that are baked with everything just dumped in. So here is to spring and all of the tastes that bring us home! Here is the recipe pretty much unaltered except I have added a few helpful hints, otherwise it is the original recipe.  Enjoy! Spring Means Rhubarb Season   Save Print Works everytime Rhubarb Crunch Author: Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook Recipe type: Dessert Cuisine: American Serves: 8 Servings Ingredients Crumb...