Anyone bake pies?

[Colorado Cowboy]

My mother used to make a rhubarb pie that was to die for. It's sweet/sour flavor would wake up my taste buds. She passed in 2008 and when we got her recipe book, sadly it was not there. My wife tried to duplicate it for years, to no avail!

My wife makes what she calls Lemon Philly Pie. It was her Mom's recipe. It has a graham cracker crust and uses Philadelphia Creame Cheese, fresh lemon juice and a little sugar. It is almost like cheese cake, but not so firm. It has that sweet/sour flavor that I love. She makes it every year for my birthday.

 

[mallardsx2]

My mother used to make a rhubarb pie that was to die for. It's sweet/sour flavor would wake up my taste buds. She passed in 2008 and when we got her recipe book, sadly it was not there. My wife tried to duplicate it for years, to no avail!

Had to wait for my mom to get out of the hospital to get the recipe but this is my Grandmas Recipe that she always used:

Ingredients:
3 cups of Rhubarb cut into 3/8" long pieces.
1-1/4 Cups of sugar
2 heaping tablespoons of flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs (blended up)

Add the above in a bowl and mix thoroughly.

Then place the mix in your standard pie crust. This pie has a top crust as well so
cover the filling with the top pie crust and crimp the sides.

Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Then reduce the temp to 325 and bake for another 35 minutes.


Obviously, this is not going to work for a diabetic but it sure is good!

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

My Grandmas Recipe:

Standard Pie crust.

Ingredients:
3 cups of Rhubarb cut into 3/8" long pieces.
1-1/4 Cups of sugar
2 heaping tablespoons of flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs (blended up)

Add the above in a bowl and mix thoroughly.

Then place the mix in your pie crust. This pie has a top crust as well so
cover the filling with the top pie crust and crimp the sides.

Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Then reduce the temp to 325 and bake for another 35 minutes.


Obviously, this is not going to work for a diabetic but it sure is good!

I'll try this, thanks.

 

[mallardsx2]

Goes great with a scoop of vanilla ice cream! lol

 

[Yell Co AR Hunter]

Ingredients:
3 cups of Rhubarb cut into 3/8" long pieces.
1-1/4 Cups of sugar
2 heaping tablespoons of flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs (blended up)

Now that is always funny. I don't have a measuring spoon that says that. Is that 2 1/8, 2 1/4, or 2 1/2. The flour.

 

[mallardsx2]

I typed it right from the notecard. (Written in cursive probably 70 years ago). lol

 

[JimP]

I typed it right from the notecard. (Written in cursive probably 70 years ago). lol

My one sister who used to bake a lot uses her palm of her hand to measure most of the smaller measurements. I challenged her one time on the amounts that she was putting into something and we got the measuring spoons out. She was right on the mark.

 

[mallardsx2]

^^^Love it. Sometimes I think we all overthink things. lol

 

[RICMIC]

You mitigate the tartness by adding sugar, but it is a fine line before it is too sweet. Ice cream makes a tart pie perfect, but my mother made a strawberry rhubarb pie that covered all the bases. You have to do something with rhubarb as it's one of the first things to start growing in the far north, and actually pushes itself through the snow in the spring.

 

[mallardsx2]

^^ It freezes pretty good. My mom and grandma always cut it up and froze it and then made a lot of the pies throughout the year.