Rhubarb Pie

This pie recipe is also written in Marjorie McKay’s hand and is a masterpiece of brevity and assumption of basic cooking skills. You’ll see; it’s transcribed as written. It must have been written in a hurry at mom’s request—likely because she wanted to make it for a dinner party-- as the back has a note in an unknown hand that the recipe is going to the post office “to night.”

INGREDIENTS 1 ½ c rhubarb 7/8 c sugar 1 egg 2 T flour

DIRECTIONS Cut rhubarb in ½ inch pieces. Mix flour and sugar together – add egg – beat. Fold in rhubarb. Bake 450⁰ for 15 min. then 350⁰ for 35 min.

ERIN’S NOTES: You’ll notice this pie is missing a pie crust! Mimi was famous for her hot water pie crust recipe, and I would have added it here, but alas, I can’t find it in the big green notebook. Mom didn’t like making pie crust – she considered herself terrible at it – so it’s likely she bought one. Or rather two, as my guess is this is a double crust pie.