The recipe makes a little more syrup than you’ll need for 1 bottle of Prosecco (it makes about 1 1/3 cup; for 1 bottle Prosecco you need about 3/4 to 1 cup) but the syrup keeps nicely in the fridge for about a week. Use it for lots of other things: make rhubarb soda by adding it to fizzy water, drizzle it over your yogurt, or drizzle it over vanilla pound cake or angel food cake and whipped cream. If you want to use the rhubarb pulp, remove the orange zest, let it cool and then refrigerate it for up to 3 days. You can then stir a big dollop of it into plain or vanilla yogurt for a yummy rhubarb treat!

Rhubarb Fizz Cocktail ingredients. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend

Rhubarb Fizz Cocktail

Serves 6

Ingredients:

1 orange
3 cups chopped rhubarb
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1 bottle Prosecco

Instructions:

Remove the zest from the orange using a vegetable peeler, being sure to avoid too much of the white pith.
Add the rhubarb, orange zest and juice, sugar, and water to a saucepan, stir together, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer until the fruit is very soft and the liquid has become syrupy, about 20 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer set over a bowl, pressing on the solids to extract as much juice as possible. Let cool completely then refrigerate until chilled. Keep the pulp for another purpose or discard.

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