Terribly sorry, everyone. I have been dreadful about posting over the last couple of weeks due to a trip home and a computer being upgraded. I also seem to have contracted a penchant for writing rather like a 19th-century Englishwoman, which may or may not be due to the fact that I have reread all of my favorite Jane Austen novels over the last several weeks.
Iowa skyline
Anyways, my love for Emma and Pride and Prejudice is not why you are here. My trip home was rather a whirlwind, mostly spent with family and much of it spent in the car on the five-hour drive to Iowa (which was quite pretty, actually). However, I did manage to take a few pictures of my grandma Nancy’s famous rhubarb cream pie, homemade the day of my arrival by my mom. I can thus claim no credit for this recipe, but I do hope to pick up some rhubarb at the farmer’s market this weekend to try to recreate it in my (much smaller) kitchen. 
Rhubarb Pie
Crust:
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter chilled and cut into small pieces
1/4 to 1/2 cup ice water
Filling:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Pinch salt
3 eggs, beaten
4 cups (or more) rhubarb, roughly chopped
For crust: Add flour, salt, sugar, and butter to the bowl of a food processor. Process until a coarse meal forms, about 10 seconds. Add ice water by the tablespoon, and process until dough holds together without being sticky, about 30 seconds. If too crumbly, add more ice water by the tablespoon until it comes together. Separate dough into two balls and flatten slightly. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, and up to 1 day.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Roll out each ball of dough into a 12-inch round. Place one in pie tin and crimp edges to form crust. Cut the other into 1-inch strips and set aside. Mix sugar, flour, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl. Add eggs and mix until blended. Stir in rhubarb and mix until just combined. Pour filling into prepared crust. Braid 1-inch strips of crust over filled pie, working one at a time, to create a lattice. Trim edges and press down edge of crust with a fork. Bake for 50 minutes, until top is golden brown.
Sunlit porch
- Chickens
- A visitor on the shoot
Yay! Now I don’t have to call and bug your parents to get the recipe everytime I want to make rhubarb pie!
This looks delicious! I must get some rhubarb and make it!
Yay! Now I don’t have to call and bug your parents for the recipe every time I want to make rhubarb pie!
You never bug them you silly
Oh I just love rhubarbs! actually my garden is full of them right now.
I made a superb cake the other day and allso rhubarb-jam that was very tasty!
Have to try yours as well!
Mrs G
Though I’m not a fan of Jane Austen – I prefer Thomas Hardy – This pie looks incredible. Don’t grandmother’s make the best food?
Thank you! It is one of my favorite all-time recipes — always reminds me of home.
I can see why.
I really wish you shared photos of the “how to” process. I really want to try this out! Do you have other pie recipes?
Unfortunately, my mother made the pie before I arrived home so I didn’t have any photos of the process. However, I will try to make another lattice-top pie son (especially once peaches are in season) and I will be sure to share how-to photos then!
Alrighty, thanks for telling me!
I think WordPress wants us to eat more rhubarb — this is the second recipe featuring the veggie on Freshly Pressed in a week.
Congrats, and thanks for the recipe!
Thank you! Rhubarb is one of my favorite parts about spring — I think everyone should eat as much as they can during it’s short season. Hope you enjoy!
Looks good! You can also melt rhubarb and pour it over ice cream…very satisfying…
Thanks! I love rhubarb on pretty much anything
I share your penchant for the Austenesque and for rhubarb. What mouth-watering, cheerful photos!
Congratulations on FP, you deserve it!
Thank you! Always nice to find another Austen fan
Yum! I have rhubarb here in Boulder and am going to try making a pie with Truvia – natural no cal sugar and coconut oil. Did I mention I was living in Boulder?
I’m a Wisconsin native….
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
Thanks — I haven’t worked with Truvia, but from what I have read about it, you can use a lot less since it’s much sweeter than sugar. Hope it turns out well!
Even the Dog is licking its lips – ha! Congrats on being FP!
Thank you! Yep, he knows a good piece of pie when he sees it.
When dog has that look in his eyes and the tongue is coming out, you only have seconds to save your food from his attempts to make that slice of pie all his. I speak from experience.
Grandma, rhubarb, and pie…3 of my favourite words! This looks heavenly…
Thanks! it’s one of my favorite recipes.
Love the photos, especially the dog licking its lips. So great!
Ahaha! The pic of the dog drooling over the pie is priceless! =P
No pie for you
Boooooooo
Unless you share and sing some more that is
Haha! Been working on another cover. I get some pie soon =P
lol! yes you get your pie after all
Great blog post… thanks for the recipe!
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YUM!
This looks sooo good! I love rhubarb but haven’t used it in a pie recipe yet (apple and rhubard crumble is a favourite), I’m totally going to give this recipe a try
Thank for sharing!
Excellent choice …. and we love strawberry rhubarb pie.
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Rhubard Pie very charming indeed:
Wow your front porch is amazing! And that pie receipt looks amazing!
Yum
Katie
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Rhubarb pie is my favorite! Great post, and congrats on being freshly pressed.
Buen y sabroso pastel…
looks really delicious
The pie looks great – can’t wait to try the recipe!
We dug up some rhubarb from mom’s garden to plant in ours this year. So far it’s doing well but hasn’t produced enough for a pie yet. Thanks for the lovely photos and the recipe.
That looks painfully delicious! Can’t wait to try the recipe!
Cheers,
Courtney Hosny
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I just made one but no crust on top, just a glaze. From http://www.foodwishes.com with chef John. Took it to a meeting, success!
I can tell that the pie is so delicious…Interested in trying your recipe, of course, my wife will be the one doing it
I love rhubarb!
I love rhubarb pie and this recipe looks wonderful!
I grew up in Nebraska and Iowa and this recipe makes me sooo happy as my grandmother used to make the best rhubarb pie this time of year!
Oh how funny…the photo with the dog is too cute! As for your absence due to your trip back home and PC upgrade…you definitely get a thumbs up for that pie recipe! I have not had rhubarb pie in ages and will definitely have to try your recipe and share by posting it on my blog! Looking forward to reading more of your blogging! Thanks for sharing!
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Hey my Readers! Look at this recipe…I definitely have to try it this summer. I think the photo with the dog says it all!
Enjoy!
Rhubard has many health benefits as well as tasting great.
I will tell my wife to whip this up for me some time.
Thank you for sharing
I used to think I didn’t like rhubarb because I wouldn’t try it as a kid, I’m happy to have been proven wrong by wonderful rhubarb cakes and crisps. This pie looks heavenly!
If the ole yellow lab’s take on the recipe is any indication of it taste, I’m sold! Love its comment on the shoot.
You Matter! Smiles, Nancy
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This blog post makes me want Rhubarb pie so bad. Plus, I secretly love chickens, aren’t they so cute. What is your favorite pie?
Thanks for stopping by! I really love this pie, but I think my other favorite is peach. What about you?
I think my favorite pie is blueberry, THE WARM OOZY BITTERSWEETNESS…
Aw…that dog seemed to be cravin’ for that pie. Well, can’t blame him since it really look so delicious and tempting.
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nice pics~~!!
Oh, my! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe. I have an obsession with pies and no one in my vicinity knows how to make them. =)
Lovely blog,
~Tinkerbell
I’m midway through my first rhubarb experience- making strawberry rhubarb ice cream! I just wrote about wanting a chicken coop, so the bird shot made me smile. And I love the licking dog. I have a food-stalker of my own. Thanks for writing- check me out at theusualbliss.com sometime!
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damn- there goes the diet!
oooh! my fave! have to tryyyy to make it myself
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will try to make this for my mom (and myself, of course) this Christmas… or as soon as she comes to visit me in SF.
Lovely simple recipe for us legions of rhubarb-ophiles. And as a fellow backyard hen owner, I appreciate your ‘henny penny’ shot. Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed. I got mine in January and have been living on a cloud ever since. Well, sort of.
Ah! I would make it surely!
nice. the Pie looks very delicious!!!like the dog ~~haha!!
very nice delicius…am hungry now..:) greeting nice to visit and blogwalking in this blog
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OK, Friends,
I don’t do Rhubarb … So, although I appreciate my fellow blogger’s courage with pie, it just isn’t in me.
So, expect me to blog about why I don’t like Rhubarb ….
Wayne
Great. And I have rhubarb in the garden
interesting!
Delicious photography and congrats on being freshly pressed
and as for Austen…..I like re-reading them all as well…except Emma!
Hmmm, yummy
it’s nice to know others equate ‘home’ and ‘childhood’ and ‘grandma’ with Rhubarb. It’s a very (VERY) midwestern thing, I guess. But when I eat Rhubarb (any kind/sort/incarnation) I am roughly six or seven years old again, and mom is alive- aggh, all ‘verklempt’ just thinking about it! Thanks for the recipe. In our area, (MN) the strawberries and the rhubard are ripe at the same time. Will try next year (we just planted “Ruby the Rhubarb” plant last fall- she needs time to grow and establish herself). Thanks.
Thanks for the lovely post. I love that you are inspired by Austen and rhubarb at the same time.
Looks delicious. Pass some my way please!
Steven Wade, Edinburgh and Dundee
I’m told my grandma used to make the best rhubarb pie in the family. I never had the opportunity to find out, because I always resisted eating it. As a kid I had issues with eating anything that vaguely resembled a vegetable. To this day, I’ve never eaten a rhubarb pie. Shame on me. But yours does look tasty.
that looks fabulous! My grandmother used to make a rhubarb kuchen and it was always my favorite thing about the summer. Tart, sweet, and a little spicy all at once. I’ll have to give this a try!
This sounds great! I also love Jane Austen, and it took me years to train myself out of picking up her writing style in my writing and my speech!
hmm rhubarb cake is one of my favorite one´s! and yours looks so delicious! lovely blog!
JenMuna/sarah
Looks truly yummy
thanks for sharing this lovely recipe.
I miss rhubarb!!! It won’t grow for me in TX. I grew up in Canada near Edmonton, we had a huge patch of it in the summer. Mom would make apple rhubarb crisp if there was any left after we picked the stalks to eat raw with sugar. Ahh, the good ol days!
Rhubarb Crumble, a slight variation, warm, with cold cream so you get the 2 contrasts, nothing better x
One thing I wish I had was my grandma’s rhubarb pie recipes! I can’t wait to try your grandma’s recipe out! Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you so much for sharing this. I love rhubarb! Connie
http://7thandvine.wordpress.com/
Beautiful colors! I love “old fashioned” recipes!
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Congrats for getting on freshly pressed! My favorite picture is the one of “a visitor on the shoot.” Great post!
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That sounds so good! I love pie!
I’m originally from South Dakota and grew up with rhubarb everything! Strawberry-rhubarb icecream sauce, rhubarb coffee cake and yes, the delicious pie! Living here in N Texas we just can’t grow it so I’m at the mercy of my family when they visit! My mother-in-law has family in Iowa too, I have an Uncle in Lemars. Beautiful part of the country. Thanks for sharing the recipe! Brought back fond memories.
Oh my, I love rhubard!!!
Oohh this looks SO good! And it looks like that cute doggy wants some too!
How I do miss my (Nebraska) grandma’s rhubarb pie.
I remember eating rhubarb pie as a child. I loved it! I think the dog drooling awaiting the remains is priceless
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I know this is probably frowned upon, but I have a bag of frozen rhubarb and this might have inspired me to thaw it out and bake something. Thanks so much for sharing.
I must say that we drove to Iowa recently from Philadelphia and it is a prettier state than people realize. Such a relaxing place to be…and I think thats because that’s the only thing to do! Thanks for sharing…
I say that frozen rhubarb is better than no rhubarb at all. And yes, I agree that Iowa is quite pretty! Particularly in the spring.
Haha, love the shot of the dog at the end – perfect timing!
Today is a good day for pie (snow is falling as I type), and we have plenty of rhubarb in the garden, when I venture out to collect some vege for dinner I might just grab some rhubarb as well, thanks for the inspiration!
I love Jane Austen also. Read and watch the movies over and over. Rhubarb is my favorite pie. Thanks for this recipe.
I saw that same chicken on Sunday when Roberta and I went to Sunsets Celebration weekend in Menlo Park.
Thanks Becky! I heard it was a good time
i love the chicken
A very nice receipie and the visitor on the shoot – is yoru dog a food begger?
My friend has a lab and he has the saddest little eyes and whenever we are eating anything at her place, he looks right into my eyes, turns his heard from side to side and licks the air 
I cannot fight that cuteness and have to give him something 
He even eats tomatoes 
Great pie! Love the idea that it came from your grandmother.
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this looks amazing! i love anyhting with rhubarb, and will deff give this a try!
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thanks for receipe
Oh! to be in Brooklyn again, eating rhubarb pie!
Thank you for the memories.
I’m going to have to follow you and link you to my new foodie-photo blog.
I love rhubarb pie… It is so refreshing. Here in Poland we’re making rhubarb compote. You should try it. It’s great for hot afternoons. You just need some boil rhubarb, couple apples and sugar. Soooo good.
Oh yum! Gotta love trips home when good food is involved
Looks delicious…I will try…my wife loves rhubarb
I have my mom’s merengue custard rhubarb pie recipe I’ll have to share sometime! Love this!
Sounds like a great recipe!
Your photography skill is on point! Great pictures, especially of the dog licking his chops, lol! I’ve never tried Rhubarb. What does it taste like?
yumlicious. Do you have any pears? I want a pear. I am going to die unless I get a pear!!! Please help me. My address is…..1234 pear court. Pearington North Dakota.
Lovelovelove rhubarb! Looks yummy. Nice photos too
C’est la saison de la rhubarbe, alors les recettes sont les bienvenues.
Chantal
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Now I wish I could Bake, I am horrible at it. The puppy looks like he/she like it!
My mom and sister were just talking about making rhubarb pie today. Maybe this means we should.
It looks like your dog enjoyed the pie as well. There would be no stopping our corgi. Congrats on FP.
This looks amazing! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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Yum Yum in my tummy!!!!!!
looks like the visitor also wants a piece of that delicious looking pie.
love the last pic, my dog paul do same thing when i cooking something new because if thing goes well, he will get only one bite and if thing does not got well he want to have whole bite and when the thing does not goes well with him to he passes on to my kitty elita.
oh good heavens, I love rhubarb pie. my mother is always on the hunt for one like her mama used to make. of course, she never wrote it down or measured *anything* lol. but we all thoroughly enjoy the results of mom experimenting with different recipes! she makes a FANTASTIC rhubarb sauce that’s just heaven on top of vanilla ice cream.
I’ll have to try this recipe, and see what she thinks!
(love the last photo btw lol)
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This looks so good! I want a piece as soon as I return home from work!
Logan