
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
A weekend British dessert. Ready in about 1 hour 20 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.
- 25 minPrep (about)
- 55 minCook (about)
- 1 hr 20 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- More effortDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
- 3 oz flour
- 1 ½ tsp sugar
- ¼ cup butter
- 2 tbsp water
- 4 oz rhubarb
- 4 oz strawberrie
- 2 ¼ tsp cornstarch
- 1 ⅓ oz sugar
- ¼ tsp lemon juice
- 1 ½ tsp unsalted butter
- 1 ½ tsp milk
- Spinkling sugar
Spices & seasonings (2): salt, cinnamon
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Pie Crust: In a food processor.
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Place the sugar, salt and flour and process until mixed.
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Add the butter and process till the mixture resembles coarse.
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Meal (about 15 seconds).
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Pour 1 4 cup ( ml) water in slow, steady stream, through the feed tube till the dough holds together when pinched.
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If necessary, add more water.
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Do not process more than 30 seconds.
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Turn the dough on your work surface and gather in a ball.
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Divide the dough in half, flattening every half into a disk.
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Cover with plastic wrap.
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Refrigerate for about one hour before using.
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This will chill your butter plus relax the gluten in the flour.
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After your dough has chilled, remove one portion of your dough from the fridge.
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Place it on a lightly floured surface.
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Roll the pastry in a 12 inch (12 inches) circle.
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.) Fold the dough in half and move to 9 inch (9 inches) pie pan.
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Brush off any excess flour plus trim any overhanging pastry to edge of 1 2 (½ inch).
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Refrigerate your pastry, covered using plastic wrap, while you make the filling.
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Remove the second round of pastry.
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Roll it in a 13 inch (12 inches) circle.
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Cut the pastry in about 3 4 inch (¾ inch) strips using a pastry wheel or pizza cutter.
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Place your strips of pastry on parchment paper-lined sheet pan.
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Cover with plastic wrap.
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Place in the refrigerator for around 10 minutes.
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Make your Strawberry Rhubarb Filling: Place your cut strawberries and rhubarb in a big bowl.
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Sugar, and ground cinnamon in a small bowl mix the cornstarch.
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Remove your chilled pie crust from the fridge.
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Sprinkle around 1 ½ tsp of the sugar mix over the bottom of the pastry crust.
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Add the rest of the sugar mix to the strawberries and rhubarb and toss to mix.
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Pour the fruit mix into the prepared pie shell.
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Sprinkle the fruit with around ¼ teaspoon of lemon juice plus dot with 1 ½ tsp of butter.
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Remove your lattice pastry from your refrigerator plus, starting at your center using the longest strips and working outwards.
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Place half the strips, spacing around 1 inch (1 inch) apart, over the top of the filling.
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Fold back, around halfway, every other strip of pastry.
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Take another strip of pastry.
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Place it perpendicular over the top of the first strips of pastry.
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Unfold the bottom strips of pastry.
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Fold back your strips that weren't folded back your first time.
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Lay another strip of pastry perpendicular over the top of the filling.
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Continue with the remaining strips.
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Trim your edges of your pastry strips, leaving 1 inch (1 inch) overhang.
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Seal your edges of your pastry strips by folding them under bottom pastry crust plus flute the edges of the pastry.
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Brush the lattice pastry with milk.
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Sprinkle with a little sugar.
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Cover.
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Place in the refrigerator while you turn the oven on to 400°F.
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Place the oven rack in your lower third of the oven.
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Put a sheet pan, lined using aluminum foil, on the oven rack.
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Place the pie plate on the hot sheet pan.
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Bake the pie for around 35 min plus then, if your edges of your pie are browning too much.
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Cover with a foil ring.
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Continue to bake the pie for around another 10 minutes until the crust is a golden color plus the fruit juices begin to bubble.
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Remove the pie from the oven.
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Place on wire rack to cool for several hours.
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Dish up at room temperature using softly whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
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Leftovers can be stored in your refrigerator for about 3 days.
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Reheat before serving.
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This pie can be frozen.
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Makes one 9 inch (9 inches) pie.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.