Best Recipe for Raspberry Rhubarb Pie
Ingredients
- Pate Brisee, recipe follows
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 1 1/2 pounds rhubarb, trimmed and cut into 1/2-inch pieces (4 cups)
- 2 cups raspberries
- 1 1/4 cups sugar, or more to taste, plus extra for top of lattice
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 1 tablespoon cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out half of dough for bottom crust. Fit into an 11-inch pie plate. Trim pastry using scissors or a sharp paring knife and chill. Keep remaining one-half of dough refrigerated wrapped in plastic for lattice.
- Combine rhubarb and raspberries in a large bowl. Sprinkle with sugar, 1/3 cup flour, and lemon juice. Toss gently so as not to break raspberries. Spoon into pie shell and dot with butter. Refrigerate while preparing lattice top.
- In a small bowl combine egg and heavy cream, whisk lightly to combine; set aside. On a lightly floured surface roll out remaining piece of dough for lattice and cut it into 1-inch strips. Weave strips together over filling, and place an extra strip or two along the edge, where bottom crust joins lattice top; press this strip with tines of a fork to seal well. Brush lattice and all pastry edges with egg glaze, sprinkle top with sugar and place pie on a Silpat or parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake until pastry is golden brown and juices in center of pie are bubbling, about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. Transfer to a wire rack to cool before serving.
- Pate Brisee:
- 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar, optional
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 6 to 12 tablespoons ice water
- In the bowl of a food processor, add flour, salt, and sugar. All ingredients should be cold. Add the pieces of butter and process for approximately 10 seconds, or just until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. (To mix by hand, combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Using a pastry blender or 2 table knives, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal.)
- Add ice water, drop by drop, through feed tube with machine running, just until dough holds together without being wet or sticky; do not process more than 30 seconds. Test dough at this point by squeezing a small amount together. If it is crumbly, add a bit more water.
- Divide dough in half. Place 1 half on a piece of plastic wrap. Grasping ends of the plastic wrap with your hands, press the dough into a flat circle with your fists. This makes rolling easier than if the pastry is chilled as a ball. Repeat with second half. Wrap the dough in the plastic and chill for at least 1 hour.
- Yield: enough for 1 (11-inch) double-crusted pie.
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