Saturday, June 25, 2011

Rhubarb Pie!

We don't yet have a rhubarb plant (although we are going to procure one this fall!), but I do have a fabulous rhubarb pie recipe (from AllRecipes.com) that I am happy to pass along.  Enjoy!!

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Fresh Rhubarb Pie

Ingredients:

6 cups chopped rhubarb
1 cups white sugar
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie

Directions:
-Preheart oven to 450 degrees F.
-Combine sugar and flour.  Sprinkle 1/4 of it over pastry in pie plate.  Heap rhubarb over this mixture.  Sprinkle with remaining sugar and flour.  Dot with small pieces of butter.  Cover with top crust.
-Place pie on lowest rack in oven.  Bake for 15 minutes.  Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F and continue baking for 40 to 45 minutes.  Serve warm or cold.  (If you eat it warm, make sure to have some vanilla ice cream in the house!!)

1 comment:

  1. Because this area has never heard of a rhubarb, I planted mine from seed & am babying it along, anxiously waiting for it to produce in 2 more years! =] mmmm =]

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