Rhubarb Meringue Pie

Name: Rhubarb Meringue Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: Grated rind and juice of 1 orange; 1½ lb/675 g rhubarb, trimmed and cut in 1-inch/2.5-cm pieces; 4 egg whites; 3 oz/84 g sugar; 6 oz/170 g plain flour; 5 oz/140 g butter, chilled and cut into little bits; 1 rounded dssp ground ginger; 2 oz/56 g icing sugar; 8 oz/225 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

Fruity meringue pies I love. I wish I didn’t like sweet things so much. This is delicious served with crème fraîche, or with vanilla ice cream, which is especially good if you serve the pie warm.

Ingredients

For the pastry

5 oz/140 g butter, chilled and cut into little bits
6 oz/

Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Put the butter, flour, icing sugar and ginger in a food processor and whiz until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Press lightly over the sides and bottom of a flan dish about 9 inches/23 cm in diameter. If you do not have a food processor, rub the butter into the dry ingredients, using your fingertips, until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Put the dish into the fridge for at least 30 minu