Rhubarb Custard Pie

Ingredients

• 1 cupful cut rhubarb
• 2 eggs
• 1 cupful sugar
• 1 tablespoonful flour
• 1 cupful milk
• 1 tablespoonful melted Crisco
• Crisco pastry
• ¥ teaspoonful ginger extract

Method

1. 1

   Cut rhubarb, mix with sugar and flour.

2. 2

   Beat egg yolks, add milk, ginger extract, and melted Crisco.

3. 3

   Line pie plate with pastry, fill with rhubarb mixture, pour custard over, and bake until firm.

4. 4

   Cover with meringue made from beaten egg whites and powdered sugar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

2 eggs 1% cupfuls Crisco 2 yolks of eggs 1% cupful ground almonds 11% teaspoonfuls salt Si eupful sugar Water Sift flour and almonds into basin, rub Crisco into them, add salt, sugar, eggs well beaten and water to make stiff paste. Leave in cool place two hours, then roll out and use for pies and tartlets. Sufficient for four pies. Hot Water Paste 1 cupful flour 1% teaspoonful salt 4 tablespoonfuls Crisco 4 teaspoonful baking powder 3 tablespoonfuls boiling water Sift flour, salt and baking powder into basin, rub Crisco lightly into them, then stir in boiling water. Cool paste before using, or it will be too sticky to handle. Sufficient for one pie. 93 Pastries Butterscotch Pie 1 egg ' 3 tablespoonfuls water 1 cupful dark brown sugar \% teaspoonful salt 1 cupful milk 1 tablespoonful powdered sugar 3 tablespoonfuls flour 1 baked crust 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract Put yolk of egg into saucepan, add brown sugar, flour, milk, water, Crisco, salt, and vanilla. Stir over fire until it thickens and comes to boil- ing point. Pour into baked pie shell. Beat up white of egg, then beat powdered sugar into it. Spread on top of pie and brown lightly in oven. Sufficient for one pie. Rhubarb Custard Pie 1 cupful cut rhubarb Z eggs 1 cupful sugar ¥ teaspoonful ginger extract 1 tablespoonful flour 1 cupful milk 1 tablespoonful melted Crisco Crisco pastry

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