Recipe - Plain Old Rhubarb Pie

A recipe of double pie crust
3 cup Diced rhubarb
1 One half Sugar
2 tablespoon Flour
1 tablespoon Quickcooking tapioca
Grated rind of half a lemon
or orange
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Butter

Line a 9inch pie tin with half the pastry and sprinkle a little flour over
it. Combine rhubarb, sugar, tapioca, lemon rind and salt and put in pastry
shell. Dot with butter. Arrange a lattice of pastry strips on top. Bake in
moderate 350 degrees F. oven for 1 hour.

Tips on Rhubarb

1. Rhubarb has medicinal value.

2. It is astringent, cathartic and a fine tonic.

3. It is much used as a gentle laxative for infants.

4. Herb book from 1597 states: "Steeped with anise, rhubarb helps the
jaundice and such like diseases.....It purifieth the blood and makes young
wenches to look faire and cherrylike.

5. Many people freeze young pink rhubarb in the spring when it is at its
best. Others can the strained rhubarb juice for a refreshing summer drink.
Some make wine of it, and some make a tart sherbet or sweet conserve of it.
Rhubarb has a hundred uses, and here are a few good ways to prepare it.

6. It is high in floride.

NOTES : Notes: Simple, easy, and delicious.
Posted to recipeludigest by Nadia Canty wcanty@halpc.org on Mar 1, 1998