Pearl Cahill’s Rhubarb Apple Pie

Pearl Cahill’s Rhubarb Apple Pie

Reba Cahill’s Grandma Pearl of Wind in the Wires made the best rhubarb apple pie.

Everyone in Road’s End, Idaho said so. But she would not share her secret crust recipe with anyone. Not even me, the author and creator of Wind in the Wires. How rude is that! You’ll have to depend on your own grandma’s crust expertise.

Rhubarb Apple Pie Servings: 8 from 9” pie dish

Rhubarb Apple Pie Ingredients:

4 cups sliced fresh or frozen rhubarb

1 cup peeled and chopped sweet apples

1 Tbsp. lemon juice

1 2/3 cups sugar or packed brown sugar or 1/2 cup honey

3/4 tsp. orange zest

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1 dash ground nutmeg

1 dash ground cinnamon

1 Tbsp. butter

1/3 cup chopped walnuts

1 pastry for double-crust 9” pie (from your own or your grandmother’s favorite recipe)

 Rhubarb Apple Pie Directions:

• 1  Preheat oven 400° F.
• 2  For the filling: in large saucepan combine rhubarb, apple, sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, butter and nuts.
• 3  Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture thickens. Remove from heat.
• 4  Add butter. Cool.
• 5  Prepare pastry shell for double crust pie. On lightly floured surface, roll 1/2 dough from center out to form 12” circle. Place in 9” pie dish. Trim to 1/2” beyond pie dish edge.
• 6  Pile filling into shell.
• 7  Roll remaining dough and form into 12” circle. Lay over filling. Press ends into crust edge. Fold bottom over. Crimp edges together.
• 8  Egg wash on top: 1 egg and 1 Tbsp. water. Brush top of crust. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
• 9  To prevent edges from burning, cover with 1” strips of foil.
• 10  Place on baking sheet.
• 11  Bake 25 minutes. Remove foil. Bake additional 25 minutes until center is bubbly and crust golden.
• 12  Cool on rack.

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This recipe also featured at Rambles of a SAHM blog: Rhubarb Apple Pie

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Wind in the Wires
Janet Chester Bly

~~ Wind in the Wires, Book 1, A Trails of Reba Cahill Novel by Janet Chester Bly. Contemporary Western Mystery. A road adventure with a touch of romance. It’s Cowgirl Lit. 

Reba Mae Cahill searches for love and family. Old man Seth Stroud seeks justice for two cold case murders. Their journey together exposes lies and betrayal. Will the truth be too hard for either to bear?

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