Hohoho Onetime Fashioned Homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Recipe

Homemade strawberry rhubarb pie has been a tradition inwards my identify unit of measurement from equally far dorsum equally I tin remember. Our bushy, large-leafed rhubarb establish grew correct along side of my parent's home, too I yell upward equally a kid my woman bring upward too manful soul bring upward telling me how the establish came from my father's childhood home, transplanted to my parent's abode when they built it inwards the early on 1960's.

On pie-making day, mom would ship me exterior to line out the long, colorful stalks of rhubarb, instructing me to only "pull the stalks direct out from the plant" where they would brand a snapping audio when pulled, too and thence cutting off the giant greenish leaves alongside a paring knife. She would launder the stalks too and thence cutting them into i or ii inch pieces, too and thence mix them inwards a bowl alongside fresh strawberries, dust them alongside a concoction of powdered ingredients, too and thence finally, when the filling was seat into the bottom pie shell, she would piece of work on crafting the intricately woven lattice top crust.

My entire identify unit of measurement loved the tart rhubarb too sugariness strawberry blend, too mom would sometimes alteration the quantity of carbohydrate depending on the sweetness or amount of strawberries too rhubarb used, a science perfected past times her years of baking.

Mom is directly 84 too all the same inwards her abode though my dad passed on nearly 17 years ago. It's sometimes difficult to believe it's been that long. The years only wing by, don't they? But each throttle too summertime my ain daughters too I expect forwards to visiting mom too pulling around rhubarb to bear on the identify unit of measurement pie-making tradition. We were only in that place the other day, too I idea to snap around photos acre I replicated mom's one-time recipe.

My immature lady Erica alongside rhubarb from mom's yard - that's plenty for ii pies!

I showed my immature lady Erica how to line the rhubarb, too off nosotros went to brand our ain pies. Though my mom ever made a homemade pie crust, to salvage fourth dimension I used a refrigerated crust this fourth dimension around, since well, sometimes I only can't practice it all! Whichever road y'all select to take, y'all volition require ii crusts, i for the bottom too i for the top. I similar the premade ones that y'all only receive got out of the package, conduct to room temperature, too unroll.

I similar to exit my rolling pin, sprinkle my tabletop with only a tiny chip of flour thence the crust does non stick to the table, too and thence give the crust around other i or ii quick rolls alongside the rolling pivot to smooth it out too to brand certain its the same thickness throughout. Okay, fourth dimension to brand pie!

You volition need:
2 pie crusts, homemade or premade refrigerated type
Fresh rhubarb, nearly 2 cups
Fresh strawberries, nearly 2 cups
Cornstarch, 1 & 1/2 Tablespoons
Flour, 6 Tablespoons
Sugar, 1 & 1/4 cups
Butter, nearly 1 & 1/2 Tablespoons cutting into 6-8 minor pieces
Waxed paper

Wash your rhubarb too strawberries too get together your piece of work space. Make your pie crusts too and thence job a pie plate alongside i pie crust too gear upward aside. In a split bowl mix the dry out ingredients: flour, sugar, cornstarch. Set aside.

Chop rhubarb into bite-sized pieces, nearly 1" to 1 & 1/4" inwards size. Hull the strawberries too chop inwards half. I travel on the minor ones whole, too I quarter or tertiary whatsoever super-gigantic ones. Place the chopped rhubarb too strawberry into a large bowl.

Pour one-half of the dry out mixture onto the rhubarb too strawberries too toss to completely coat.

It should expect something similar this.

Pour the coated strawberry-rhubarb into the pie crust-lined pie plate.

Now sprinkle the remaining one-half of the dry out ingredients evenly on top of the strawberries too rhubarb. Cut the butter into nearly half dozen to 8 minor pieces too point the top of the pie alongside butter. Set pie aside too preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.

Now it's fourth dimension to brand the lattice top crust. It's easier than it looks! Roll out the 2d pie crust - I similar to brand certain its on the sparse side, but non also sparse that it tears when y'all elevator a strip off of the table. Use a pastry wheel, knife or pizza slicer to cutting the crust into long strips.

Try to brand each strip nearly 3/8" to 1/2" wide.

Tear off a canvas of waxed newspaper a piddling chip larger than your pie crust. Starting alongside the longest strips of crust, practice a cross on the waxed newspaper past times get-go laying i strip vertically. Then lay the 2d strip horizontally thence that it overlaps the get-go vertical strip.

Now add together a tertiary strip equally shown inwards the photo, placing it vertically over that 2d horizontal strip that y'all only seat down.

Add the quaternary strip of crust horizontally (see photos inwards a higher identify too below) too elevator the vertical strip upward to weave that quaternary strip thence that the strips travel over too and thence under.

You are creating a woven pattern of over too under. Each fourth dimension y'all lay downwards a strip y'all receive got to elevator every 2d strip thence that the strip y'all are laying downwards goes nether too and thence over, too and thence under, too and thence over.

Keep repeating this pattern equally shown above. If your strips larn also brusque y'all tin re-roll them or only stick ii brusque ones together to brand a long strip. It doesn't receive got to live perfect!

Once y'all receive got finished weaving too used upward all of your strips it is directly fourth dimension to identify the crust on top of the pie!

Keeping the lattice crust on the wax paper, real carefully seat your dominant mitt beneath the wax newspaper too elevator the lattice upward too off the counter. I am right-handed thence I utilization my correct mitt beneath the lattice. (You volition utilization your contrary mitt to help guide the lattice onto the pie.)

Hold the lattice on the waxed newspaper correct adjacent to the pie too real carefully too slow plough the crust over onto the top of the pie - effort to larn it equally centered equally y'all tin because y'all volition non live able to deed the lattice i time it is on the pie. Do non flop it on quickly. Take your fourth dimension too travel slowly.

Once y'all receive got the lattice on the pie, real carefully take away the waxed paper, watching that it doesn't stick to the lattice.

Whew! Now to larn rid of those scraggly ends...

Fold whatsoever scraggly ends neatly into the crust, creating a dainty edge. If y'all prefer, or if y'all receive got also much extra lattice hanging over the border of the pie plate, y'all tin carefully cutting it off too discard it. Once y'all are finished, y'all tin sprinkle a piddling chip of carbohydrate on the crust if y'all like.

Cut a few strips of aluminum foil too shape a embrace for the crust thence that it does non forcefulness out acre baking. You volition take away this foil for the lastly fifteen or thence minutes of baking.

Bake at 425 degrees Farenheit for 40-45 minutes. Remember to take away foil from edges for the lastly fifteen minutes of baking.

If the pie becomes real bubbly acre inwards the oven too starts to drip over a chip also much, y'all tin seat a piece of aluminum foil on a rack below the pie thence that the drippings don't muddied upward your oven.

Allow to cool completely earlier slicing.
Best served at room temperature.
Serve alongside a scoop of vanilla H2O ice cream if desired. Refrigerate any leftovers. Enjoy!