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Nothing beats the taste of a classic strawberry-rhubarb pie! This double crusted pie is delicious, packed with fresh fruit, and is quite easy to make!

One of my husband’s all-time favorite desserts is an old-fashioned Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie! And today, I am going to share the recipe I use for making this sweet-tangy treat!

I grow rhubarb in my backyard raised beds and container garden, but was delighted to receive some rhubarb from my friend Debbie’s backyard garden recently. I was looking for recipes for using rhubarb, but decided to make a pie for my hubby because I love him. and knew he would enjoy it (insert cheesy grin here).

I found this recipe on Pinterest and was surprised that it contained brown sugar… that got my interest, so I tried this recipe. I sure am glad I did! This strawberry-rhubarb pie is all-around fantastic! I used my Mom’s tried and true recipe for the pie crust, too (DIY-Mom’s Pie Crust)!  The recipe is even easier if you use pre-made pie crust dough from the store! If you love strawberries, I’m positive you will love this…and the extra little twang the rhubarb gives to this pie. Truly delicious! Here’s how to make it:

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Prepare The Fresh Strawberries And Rhubarb

Look at that beautiful rhubarb and those gorgeous strawberries! Now go crazy and slice them all up.

Chop, Chop, or should I say Slice, Slice? Rinse the rhubarb, then slice it up!

There’s nothing like fresh strawberries and rhubarb in the Spring and early summer! They are SO colorful! The fresh strawberries are also sliced up, and then you’re ready to make this delicious strawberry-rhubarb pie!

Prepare The Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Filling

Place the sliced rhubarb and strawberries into a large mixing bowl, and add the rest of the ingredients. Mix these pie filling ingredients well, so they are totally combined.

Fill The Pie Crust

Pour the strawberry-rhubarb pie filling into an unbaked pie crust. Dot the top of the filling with cold chunks of butter.

Place Another Pie Crust On Top Of Filling

Place either a regular crust on top of the pie filling or make a lattice top crust. Crimp the edges to form the pie crust, and seal the two crusts together. I failed miserably at this lattice crust. I didn’t notice the weave was wrong until AFTER pie was baked…oh well! It really doesn’t matter, because the pie still tastes fantastic!

You can also lay a second pie crust on top and seal the two crusts together, instead of making a lattice crust. This is much easier way to make the crust, if desired. Remember to flute the edges to form a nice crust edge on the pie, after sealing the crusts together.

Bake The Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Place the pie in a 400° F. oven and cook for 20 minutes. Reduce the heat to 350°, and bake the strawberry-rhubarb pie for another 25 minutes. The pie crust should be nice and golden in color when done. Let the pie cool down a bit before slicing, and then serve a slice of pie with a nice scoop of vanilla ice cream!

Grab a plate and a fork, and a carton of vanilla ice cream! It’s time to dig into this strawberry-rhubarb pie.YUM!

Hope you enjoy this yummy strawberry-rhubarb pie! We sure do love it! Have a great day, friends, and thank you for stopping by. I hope you will come back again soon for more delicious recipes..

Looking For More PIE Recipes?

You can find all of my pie recipes in the Recipe Index, located at the top of the page. A few favorites include:

• Dutch Crumb Apple Pie
• Old-Fashioned Banana Cream Pie
• Strawberry Pie
• Deep Dish Boysenberry Pie
• Toll House Pie

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Recipe slightly adapted from: http://www.the-baker-chick.com/2013/05/classic-strawberry-rhubarb-pie/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20TheBakerChick%20%28The%20Baker%20Chick%29

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Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

45 mins

Total Time

1 hr

 

Nothing beats the taste of a classic strawberry-rhubarb pie! This double crusted pie is delicious, packed with fresh fruit, and is quite easy to make!

Category: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: strawberry-rhubarb pie

Servings: 8 slices

Calories Per Serving: 346 kcal

Author: JB @ The Grateful Girl Cooks!

Ingredients

• 2 unbaked pie crusts (purchased or homemade - one for top and one for bottom crust)
• 3 1/2 cups chopped rhubarb
• 3 1/2 cup sliced strawberries
• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar (I used dark brown sugar)
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour (original recipe called for tapioca flour)
• pinch of salt
• 2 Tablespoons cold butter , cut into small chunks
• cream or milk , for lightly brushing top of pie crust
• raw sugar , for sprinkling on top of pie crust

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

2. If making your own pie crusts, roll the dough into a 12 inch circle, fold it in half and transfer carefully to a 9 inch pie pan. Set second crust aside until ready to top the pie filling.
3. Place the sliced strawberries, rhubarb, granulated and brown sugars, lemon juice, salt and flour in a large mixing bowl. Mix well to combine.
4. Carefully pour the pie filling into the bottom crust. Dot the top of the filling with the butter chunks. Place second crust completely over the pie filling and seal, or make a lattice crust with the second crust. (it's your call!) Seal the edges of the crust, and form the crimped edges as desired.
5. Using a pastry brush, lightly brush the crust top with the cream or milk, then sprinkle lightly with raw sugar.
6. Place pie in oven; bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 350 degrees and bake for another 25 minutes or the crust is a golden color. The pie filling will be bubbly and HOT!
7. Remove the finished pie from oven. Set aside for several hours while the filling cools (the filling will thicken a bit as it sits).
8. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream... and ENJOY!

Nutrition Facts

Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Amount Per Serving (1 slice)

Calories 346 Calories from Fat 126

% Daily Value*

Fat 14g22%

Saturated Fat 5g31%

Cholesterol 7mg2%

Sodium 209mg9%

Potassium 300mg9%

Carbohydrates 51g17%

Fiber 3g13%

Sugar 24g27%

Protein 4g8%

Vitamin A 150IU3%

Vitamin C 42.1mg51%

Calcium 72mg7%

Iron 1.7mg9%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Old-Fashioned Banana Cream Pie is a DELICIOUS classic diner-style dessert, made entirely from scratch, without pudding mix or canned ingredients! There’s just something about a slice of an old-fashioned banana cream pie…this is the “old school” way to make a great pie, made from scratch, without using pudding mixes or any of the modern pie filling products on the market. Try it… it’s EASY and amazing!

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Where I Found This Recipe

This is a recipe I found on Food.com. It was first published in 2001. It’s completely EASY to put together, especially if you use a purchased pie crust! Banana cream pie is pretty inexpensive to make, and tastes like the old-fashioned pies my Mom used to make! You know, the kind you get at a great 50’s diner. Yum!

I’ve made this pie a few times over the years, and it really is delicious! If you like bananas, you will go ape for this banana cream pie! Really can’t believe I actually wrote that last sentence – keeping it classy, ha ha!

Buy Pie Crust Or Make Your Own

You can either make your own pie crust (as shown below), OR you can buy a 9″ frozen pie crust and pre-bake it, before adding the banana cream pie filling!

For me, it’s easy to make my homemade pie crust since I’ve been making it the same way my Mom made it for years! Roll out the prepared crust, line the pie pan with it, and form the crust. Prick the bottom and sides of the dough with the tines of a fork. Pre-bake the crust, and then let it cool.

Fill The Banana Cream Pie

The banana cream pie filling is cooked from scratch (it’s quite easy). The ingredients are cooked on the stove top in one pan. The simple filling is cooked until it thickens, and then it is set aside to cool. Once the pie crust has baked and cooled, it is time to create the pie.  Line the baked pie crust shell with fresh banana slices.

Cove all of the banana slices in the pie with the creamy custard-like pie filling. Spread the filling out to evenly fill the pie crust. There you have it! You just made a banana cream pie from scratch!

Serve The Banana Cream Pie

Place the banana cream pie in the refrigerator until it is fully chilled. Once the filling has been refrigerated for at least 4 hours, it is ready to serve! Slice the pie into 8 servings. I like to serve each piece of pie garnished with a dollop of whipped cream and a fresh banana slice or two! Can you see the banana slices hiding out on the bottom of the crust?

YUM! This pie is filled with banana flavor! It is cold, creamy, and absolutely DELICIOUS! Hope you will give this recipe a try! With the heat wave we’re having in the Northwest right now, a cool slice of banana cream pie sounds pretty good! Enjoy!

Looking For More PIE Recipes?

You can find all of my recipes in the Recipe Index, located at the top of the page. I have a nice variety of pie recipes you might be interested in, including:

• Strawberry Pie
• Toll House Pie
• Dutch Crumb Apple Pie
• Peach Pie

Interested In More Recipes?

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Old-Fashioned Banana Cream Pie

Prep Time

25 mins

Cook Time

10 mins

Total Time

35 mins

 

Old-Fashioned Banana Cream Pie is a DELICIOUS classic diner-style dessert, made entirely from scratch, without pudding or canned ingredients!

Category: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: banana cream pie

Servings: 8 slices

Calories Per Serving: 332 kcal

Author: JB @ The Grateful Girl Cooks!

Ingredients

• 1 9" pie crust , baked per pkg. instructions
• 3 cups whole milk
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 egg yolks , room temp
• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 ripe (but not mushy) bananas

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Instructions

1. Pre-bake the pie crust according to package directions OR pre-bake a homemade 9" pie crust according to recipe. Cool and set aside after baking.
2. Place the milk in a large saucepan on the stove. SCALD the milk. (to scald milk simply means to heat the milk to just below the boiling point. Don't boil the milk or it may curdle).. Set aside.
3. In a separate saucepan, mix together the sugar, flour and salt. Gradually stir in the scalded milk, stirring constantly as you add it in.
4. Cook on medium heat; stir constantly and cook until mixture has thickened. Once thickened, cover the pan and cook an additional 2 minutes. Remove pan from heat. Set aside.

5. Place the 3 egg yolks in a small bowl. Slightly beat the eggs with a fork or whisk, then stir a small amount of the hot mixture into the beaten yolks, stirring constantly as you add the hot liquid. (This is called "tempering" the egg yolks so they slowly warm up; this prevents the eggs from cooking when added to the hot mixture). When the egg yolks are thoroughly combined with the small amount of hot mixture, stir the egg yolks into the saucepan containing the hot mixture. Cook for one minute, stirring constantly.

6. Remove pan from heat; blend in the butter and the vanilla extract. Once well combined, set the pan aside and let pie filling cool until it is lukewarm.
7. While pie filling is cooling, slice the bananas. Line the bottom and sides of the pie crust with the banana slices.

8. Pour the warm pie filling over the bananas. Refrigerate until ready to serve (at least 4 hours). When pie is completely chilled, serve with a dollop of whipped cream on top OR make and top with meringue made from the 3 remaining egg whites. Serve, and enjoy!

Nutrition Facts

Old-Fashioned Banana Cream Pie

Amount Per Serving (1 slice)

Calories 332 Calories from Fat 117

% Daily Value*

Fat 13g20%

Saturated Fat 5g31%

Cholesterol 89mg30%

Sodium 227mg10%

Potassium 312mg9%

Carbohydrates 47g16%

Fiber 1g4%

Sugar 28g31%

Protein 6g12%

Vitamin A 360IU7%

Vitamin C 3.9mg5%

Calcium 118mg12%

Iron 1.1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Apricot Mini Hand Pies (also known as fruit empañadas) are little hand-held miniature fruit pies, with a sweet apricot filling inside. Delicious!
One of the most vivid memories I have of my maternal grandmother is seeing her standing by the stove, cooking fried fruit pies for our family (apple, apricot, peach, etc.) Yum!  I especially enjoy these little Apricot Mini Hand Pies when I want just a little taste of something yummy.

My grandma was from east Texas, so I just assumed little fried pies were a very “Southern” thing that all Southern grandmas cooked. Well, it’s not just a Southern thing, but this recipe for Apricot Mini Hand Pies takes me right back to those happy, carefree childhood days long ago. My Grandma passed away many years ago at age 99, but sweet memories of her live on!

I decided to make some little apricot hand pies one day, for no good reason, except they sounded good, I had all the ingredients, and I was thinking of my Grandma.

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Another Name For Mini Hand Pies

I love little fried pies. They are sometimes called “Empanadas”, which are typically a Spanish or Latin pastry turnover, filled with a variety of ingredients and baked or fried. They are usually filled with savory ingredients like meats and onions, but there are also many varieties of fruit-filled empanadas.

THIS is one of THOSE fruit-filled empanada (or fried pie) recipes, utilizing dried apricots that are available at most grocery stores. If you enjoy little fruit-filled pastries like this, you will also love my recipe for blackberry air fryer handpies, or  apple pie stuffed won tons!

Making Apricot Mini Hand Pies Is Very Easy!

The apricot filling only has 5 ingredients. For the pastry, you can either make your own favorite pie crust recipe (this is what I do), or start with pre-made pie crust dough purchased at your local grocery store. Whatever works best for you.

The pie crust is rolled out thin, then cut into small circles (about 3 inches wide – you can use a biscuit cutter or a drinking glass to cut the dough out).

A very small amount of the prepared filling is placed in the middle of the dough circle, then the edges are sealed, crimped, and the little filled fruit pies are fried in hot oil until golden brown. That’s it!

How Many Apricot Mini Hand Pies Will This Recipe Make?

I can usually get about 10-12 of these mini-fried pies made out of two pie crusts. You can use your favorite pie crust recipe (seems like everyone has their favorite) or you can use the one I use for all my pies (see link below).

Hope you will give these apricot mini hand pies a try. They’re yummy little treats…bite-sized, and perfect for munching! Don’t have a clue where the recipe came from for the apricot filling (maybe my Grandma?). I’ve had it for years and years, written on a 3×5 index card. The pie crust recipe is from my Mom (DIY-Mom’s Pie Crust).

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Apricot Mini Hand-Pies

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

5 mins

Total Time

25 mins

 

Apricot Mini Hand Pies (also known as fruit empañadas) are little hand-held miniature fruit pies, with a sweet apricot filling inside. Delicious!

Category: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: apricot mini hand pies

Servings: 10 servings

Calories Per Serving: 256 kcal

Author: JB @ The Grateful Girl Cooks!

Ingredients

• 4 ounces dried apricots
• 1/8 cup cornstarch
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 Tablespoon butter
• 2 Pie Crust Dough (for 2 crusts)
• Vegetable oil for frying (enough to cover the bottom of skillet 1" deep)

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Instructions

1. In a small saucepan, cook dried apricots in 1/4 cup water, until tender and soft.

2. Add cornstarch, sugar, salt, and butter to pan. Mix well with the apricots. Continue cooking for 3-4 minutes or until mixture has thickened.  Add additional water, if needed, to thin mixture out a bit.

3. Once mixture thickens, remove it from heat. Pour into a small bowl, cover and chill completely. Once chilled completely, make the pastry dough and roll out on a lightly floured work surface. Using a biscuit cutter or a glass, cut 3 inch circles out of dough.

4. Spoon about a Tablespoonful of the filling into the center of one half of the dough. Do not overfill or fill to the edges or the filling will run out while you are crimping the edges!

5. Once pastry circles have been filled, pull over half of the dough to cover the filling. You should now have a half circle of dough. Use a fork to "crimp" around the edges of the half circle to seal the two pieces of dough together. This is very important, or the apricot filling will leak out while cooking!

6. Preheat oil to 375 degrees. When oil is very hot, carefully place fruit pies in skillet. Cook a couple of minutes on each side. The dough should be golden brown before you turn them or remove them from the pan. Drain fruit pies on paper towels (to absorb extra oil). Making sure the oil in skillet is still very hot, repeat the process until all hand-pies are done cooking. Let hand-pies cool slightly (they will be hot inside!), then serve and enjoy!

Nutrition Facts

Apricot Mini Hand-Pies

Amount Per Serving (1 serving)

Calories 256 Calories from Fat 90

% Daily Value*

Fat 10g15%

Saturated Fat 3g19%

Cholesterol 3mg1%

Sodium 179mg8%

Potassium 164mg5%

Carbohydrates 40g13%

Fiber 1g4%

Sugar 21g23%

Protein 2g4%

Vitamin A 445IU9%

Vitamin C 0.1mg0%

Calcium 13mg1%

Iron 1.2mg7%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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