how many grams in a cup of rhubarb?

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• How many stalks of rhubarb make a cup?
  One medium stalk — about 12 inches long and roughly an inch wide at the base — yields close to 1 cup sliced, around 130 g. Thinner spring stalks need two to hit a cup; thick field rhubarb can give you 1.5 cups from a single piece. Weigh after trimming leaves and root ends, since those don't go in the pie.
• Do I need to adjust sugar based on cup count?
  Yes. Rhubarb is sharply tart, so most pie and crumble recipes use 3/4 to 1 cup of sugar per 4 cups of sliced rhubarb (around 520 g). Pair it with strawberries and you can pull the sugar back, since strawberries bring their own sweetness. Macerate the cut rhubarb with sugar for 30 minutes before baking to draw out water and prevent a soupy filling.
• Does rhubarb shrink a lot when cooked?
  Significantly. Rhubarb is mostly water — a 4-cup raw measure (520 g) cooks down to roughly 2 cups of compote or pie filling. That's why crumble recipes pile the dish high with raw stalks: it'll settle by half during baking. For jam, expect about a 1:1 weight ratio of rhubarb to sugar and a yield of roughly two-thirds the starting volume.

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