Rhubarb Pie
- 1 1/2 cups, plus 2 teaspoons, sifted flour, plus additional flour for rolling the pastry
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup chilled lard, cut into small chunks
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 23 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 4 cups chopped fresh rhubarb
- To make the crust, put 1 1/2 cups of the flour in a bowl with the salt and lard and combine quickly with fingertips.
- Add the water and stir to combine; the dough will be sticky.
- Add the remaining flour, form into a ball and put in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
- Divide the dough in two.
- Lightly flour a board; roll half the dough to cover the bottom of a 9-inch pie pan and put it in the pan.
- Flour the board again, and roll out the remaining dough.
- Using a pastry wheel or a sharp knife, cut the dough into 3/4-inch strips and put on wax paper.
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
- To make the filling, combine the sugar, nutmeg and cornstarch in a bowl.
- Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of this mixture on the pastry in the pie pan.
- Combine the remaining sugar mixture with the rhubarb and fill the pie.
- Moisten the rim of the pastry with water and make a latticework top over the pie with the dough strips.
- Crimp the edges well.
- Bake pie for 40 minutes .
flour, salt, chilled lard, cold water, sugar, freshly grated nutmeg, cornstarch, fresh rhubarb
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016167 (may not work)