It’s rhubarb season again! And while we have a couple different ways to use up your extra crop of “pie plant” on our blog, this is easily our favorite! Even though this pie was only posted last year, this has been a favorite in Tom’s family for forever. In fact, I am planning on making this pie this week, just as soon as Tom finishes the pie for the upcoming Second Annual Pieathalon Challenge, which will be coming up on June 8th!
So, I was really excited about the recent First Annual Pieathalon Blogger Challenge. It was crazy, and fun and great and I LOVED it.
And today we have Tom’s favorite pie, ever, ever. Grandma’s Rhubarb Meringue Pie!
AuthorRetroRuth
From Grandma Clark
Tested Recipe!
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Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt. Mix in flour and rolled oats. Blend until dough is formed.
Press dough over bottom and sides of 9" pie plate, making a high, even edge. Chill.
Mix salt, sugar, and flour. Set aside.
Combine rhubarb & water in a saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Stir in sugar mixture. Boil, stirring often.
Fold a small amount of hot mixture into egg yolks. Stir eggs into hot mixture slowly. Pour into crust. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes or until set.
Beat whites and salt until soft peaks form. Add sugar gradually. Beat until glossy. Beat in extracts.
Spread over the hot filling so that it touches the edge of the crust. Return to oven and brown for 8-10 minutes.
Ingredients
Directions
Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt. Mix in flour and rolled oats. Blend until dough is formed.
Press dough over bottom and sides of 9" pie plate, making a high, even edge. Chill.
Mix salt, sugar, and flour. Set aside.
Combine rhubarb & water in a saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Stir in sugar mixture. Boil, stirring often.
Fold a small amount of hot mixture into egg yolks. Stir eggs into hot mixture slowly. Pour into crust. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes or until set.
Beat whites and salt until soft peaks form. Add sugar gradually. Beat until glossy. Beat in extracts.
Spread over the hot filling so that it touches the edge of the crust. Return to oven and brown for 8-10 minutes.
Notes
This pie is different from the normal pie, which is great. It starts out with an oatmeal cookie crust.
Just…think about that.
Oatmeal. Cookie. Crust.
Then it is filled with a sweet, tart and creamy filling. No strawberries here, thanks. Just pure rhubarb goodness!
Just a side note – Why does rhubarb filling always look so bad? This one was a challenge to photograph!
And then the whole shebang is topped off with meringue. And since we make this pie a couple of times during rhubarb season, I have been experimenting with it a bit. I regularly switch between the recommended white sugar and brown sugar for the crust and the meringue. Brown sugar meringue is really, really good.
“I could eat this entire pie.”
The Verdict: Delicious
From The Tasting Notes –
Since this is a family recipe, we are a bit biased about this one, but we think it is really good. The filing is tart, sweet and creamy and the crust is pretty much an oatmeal cookie. How can you go wrong with that? Normally I could take or leave meringue, but when I switch out brown sugar for white it almost makes it taste like frosting. Delicious, delicious pie frosting. Yum.
The flour in the filling gives it the yucky look. Try subbing corn starch or one of the clear thickeners .Like what they use in strawberry pie. Also perhaps use lemon or citric acid to keep it red like they do to keep apples from browning. Grannies always have a good pie. I have been making “Granny J’s Blue Berry Snow Balls” for my grand kids. Freeze FRESH blue berries . Pour cold heavy cream on them—DONE!! That is a 1950’s farm girl idea.
Cookie Crust? Oh yes!
I haven’t made this pie, but I have snagged the crust recipe.
I LOVE rhubarb pie, but I’ve never tried one with a meringue topping, definitely going to try this out!