The Yoder Bakery - Rhubarb Pie

Each Sunday, members of our ward bring extra produce to share with anyone who would like it. I saw some rhubarb sitting out on the table and snagged a few stalks. Sunday night, after I made dinner (yes, I really did it!), I decided to make some Rhubarb Pie. So I went to trusty allrecipes.com, did a search and pulled up the recipe with the most reviews and highest rating. THIS is what I found. For the crust, I made my moms trusty Never Fail Pie Crust. Here is the recipe!

Never Fail Pie Crust (3 crusts)

• 4c. Flour 1 ¾ c. shortening
  
• 1 Tbs. Sugar
  
• 2 tsp. Salt

Mix together and add the following ingredients all at once:

• 1 Tbs. Vinegar
  
• 1 egg
  
• ½ c. water
  

Stir with a fork until all the ingredients are moistened. Then with your hands, mold dough into three balls. Chill at least 15 minutes before rolling into the desired shape (oops, I forgot to do this!). Bake at 425 degrees for an empty pie shell or pie crust cookies (pie crust rolled out with cinnamon and sugar sprinkled over it and cut into squares before baking).

I didn't have any shortening, so I made it with butter. I softened the butter, which I shouldn't have done, because the pastry was soft and warm, like cookie dough. This made rolling and putting it in the pan difficult - I ended up just pressing it into the pie pan. For the other ball of dough, I put it in plastic and stuck it in the freezer while put the rhubarb and stuff in the pie (I now see that I didn't follow the directions completely!). Now with the pastry a little colder, it was easier to work with and I was able to get it on top with out it tearing apart. This pie was delicious, and the crust wasn't soggy! I highly recommend (I didn't add the chunks of butter on top of the sugar mixture, since my pie crust was made from a stink load of butter)!

As the recipe states, it made enough for 3 pie crusts, so I had some extra pastry dough, or whatever you want to call it. In come 4 of my kidlets. Once again, I'll let the pictures do the talking!

LITTLE WORKING HANDS

SETH

ZACK

MEG

HALEY

Of course, what is together time with out a fight
between at least two siblings?!?!

Oh yes - here is MY creation!!