naylandblake: My snobbery: Rhubarb can easily carry a pie by itself whereas strawberry cannot. Strawberry should stick to its lane, which is shortbread, and stop butting into pie.

My snobbery: Rhubarb can easily carry a pie by itself whereas strawberry cannot. Strawberry should stick to its lane, which is shortbread, and stop butting into pie.

People who stick Strawberry in Rhubarb pies: Rhubarb doesn't need any help from you. Let Rhubarb be the sweet/sour ruler of its own domain.

OMG this! I’ve never understood why people ruin perfectly good rhubarb recipes with strawberries! 🥧

Failure of nerve is my guess.

I say skip the pie format all together and make this gem: smittenkitchen.com/2017/05/rhub...

rhubarb upside-down spice cakesmittenkitchen.com This cake is lemony, pink and usually more spring-like than the weather on top, spiced and cozy underneath.

Ooo!

To be fair rhubarb is made for crumbles, not pies or cobblers.

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Hear hear!

This is correct. My mother made the best rhubarb custard pie; absolute legend.

Oh, that sounds amazing....

I will take one for the team and eat all the strawberry pies so no one else has to. No no, don't thank me. I'm not a hero. I eat my pies one bite at a time.

Cooked strawberries are a form of evil.

Exactly. Pie with fresh strawberries can be lovely.

This is wildly incorrect, wow, simply stunned.

Strawberry is "special guest star", like when "New Girl" had that Prince episode. Like, Strawberry is great at what it does, but it's not a pie fruit for the most part

Try rhubarb ginger: you'll love it I peel & finely chop the ginger, leave it overnight in sugar to pre candy it as I do to rhubarb dices

You have my complete attention.

Ooooo, heavenly

Never peel your rhubarb, just wash it & chop/dice: Fruits I soak in sugar overnight Rhubarb, strawberries, peaches, pears before cooking Try choping rosemary leaves fine Candy overnight, add next day to Oatmeal & whole wheat flour, olive oil for crust Prepare Add homemade lemon curd & meringue

Is this one recipe? I am confused.

Ideas already tried out

Rhubarb was once called pie plant. Strawberries, pffft.

Bold take

Simple fact.

Apple is the natural friend of rhubarb, but their season isn't until much later.

My grandparents had a green apple tree in their back yard and a patch of rhubarb and there were such delicious pies as a result.

Cooking them ruins strawberries. Now a strawberry cream cheesecake, that's delicious.

Strawberry cream cheesecake: Whip together 1 block cream cheese & 1 tub cool whip. Press mixture into store-bought shortbread pie crust. Cut 1 lb strawberries and toss with sugar. Top filling with the strawberries. Chill pie in fridge until set.

That's a hot take. Wrong. But a hot take.

Strawberry tarts are good.

True, but they are not pies.

To my mind, tarts are in the pie family (crust and sweet filling). The crusts are different but similar feelings. 🤷🏾‍♀️

I agree, but a strawberry tart is made by baking a crust and then filling it afterwards. In a pie, crust and filling bake together. Rhubarb can stand up to that, strawberries can't. (aside: I really don't care about any of this, I'm just being pedantic for its own sake).

Sorry, I did a year of serious baking, including pies, and I remember tweeting against the use of the term "blind baking" pie crusts. There are many pies where crusts have to be pre-baked. And the French word for pie is tart. We can absolutely identify differences in practice, but that is not one.

Exactly, the French word is "tarte", because:

Anyway what's your take on the amalgam strawberry/rhubarb filling?

Try rhubarb fool, and rhubarb jam 😋

Oh,my! I have been arguing that strawberry rhubarb pie is a waste of both strawberries and rhubarb for decades. Yours are the first hearing ears I have encountered. Thank you!

Apple Rhubarb pie is an experiment I want to do. Add a bit more tartness to the usually cloyingly sweet apple pie.

Yup.

last year i ran out of strawberries and didn’t want to make a pie crust so i made a rhubarb crisp instead. it was quite nice! www.allrecipes.com/recipe/15643...

Rhubarb Crunchwww.allrecipes.com This rhubarb crunch has a tender and juicy layer of tart rhubarb with a sweet and buttery oat crumble on top that bakes up golden brown and delicious.

Strawberry does just fine in pies. In certain parts of the South, strawberry pie is a whole damn thing.

Rhubarb custard pie, actually.

Now this is a cause I can get behind

dawg, they are better together. the strawberry rhubarb pie is an allegory for society at large. different fruits (or veg) have different strengths but together we can make magic.

dang it, now i’m craving strawberry roulade from selmarie cafe/bakery.

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