Tales From Gramma's Kitchen-Rhubarb Custard Pie

Words
333
Reading
2 min
6y
Listen to this post
~2 min

20200605_201154_1_1.jpg

My oldest sister hates to cook. She can do it if she has to, but she relies heavily on restaurants, take-out, and frozen foods from Costco. Any recipe she tackles had better be extremely easy! In a recent phone conversation with her, she mentioned our grandmother's rhubarb custard pie recipe. I didn't have a copy of it, so she emailed it to me promptly. Just before I headed downstairs this evening to print the recipe, I noticed generikat@generikat's post about an old family recipe for rhubarb custard pie! What a funny coincidence! I intend to try her old recipe next, and see which one I like best.

Rhubarb Custard Pie from Grandma Charlotte

4 C chopped Rhubarb

1 1/3 C sugar
4 tsp flour
Dash of salt

4 eggs
4 tsp lemon juice

Mix flour, sugar and salt.
Beat eggs. Add lemon juice.
Combine flour mix with egg mix.
Pour over rhubarb and stir.
Pour mixture into a pie shell or baking dish
For Custard, bake 375° for 50 minutes
For Pie, bake 425° x 15 minutes/ 350° x 30-35 minutes.

20200605_190503_2.jpg


I remembered to take three pictures of the process. Here is the flour, sugar, and salt mixed together in a bowl. (It's a Pyrex bowl, one of a set of four that I got for a wedding present 37 years ago. I used this largest bowl the most, so it has actually been replaced twice. One of the smaller ones has also been replaced once, but two are still the originals.)

20200605_190509_1.jpg

We got rid of our chickens 2 1/2 years ago, so have been buying eggs from a neighbor. I love the colorful assortment we get from them.

20200605_191637 trimmed_1.jpg

Ready to go into the oven!

The very first photo is the finished product. The flavor is a nice balance of tart rhubarb and sweet sugar. A dollop of whipped topping wouldn't hurt a thing. This was very easy to assemble, and I would make it again!

All photos taken on my Android phone

Tales From Gramma's Kitchen-Rhubarb Custard Pie | Ecency