Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Name: Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
Yield: Makes one 9-inch (23-cm) pie
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon lemon juice; 1¼ cups (190 g) hulled strawberries (If you are using very petite strawberries, leave them whole. For larger strawberries, cut them in half.); 3½ cups (375 g) rhubarb cut into ½-inch (12-mm) pieces; Egg Wash; ⅔ cup (135 g) sugar; 3 tablespoons tapioca starch; 1 recipe any crust type, bottom crust prepared to make a double-crust pie; ¼ teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Makes
one
9 inch pie

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pie for Everyone

By Petra Paredez

Published 2020

About

At the risk of revealing myself to be a pie snob (surprise!), I must admit that I’m rarely impressed with strawberry-rhubarb pie when I order it at a bakery or restaurant. If it isn’t made with super flavorful strawberries and the proper ratio of rhubarb to berries, the magic just isn’t there, and it tastes like a bland, sour strawberry pie. You might think that a 2:1 ratio of rhubarb to strawberries would be overpowering, but it’s actually precisely what’s needed to concoct a flavor that i