Ready Crust Chilled Rhubarb Strawberry Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Mix together the graham cracker crumbs and melted butter; press into the bottom of a 9-inch pie dish. Line the bottom of the pie crust with 1 layer of strawberry halves.
• Place the remaining strawberries in a saucepan and crush (there should be about 1 cup of crushed berries); stir the rhubarb, sugar, water, and cornstarch into the crushed berries. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-low heat, stirring often, until the mixture thickens and becomes translucent. Turn off the heat, let the mixture stand until slightly cooled, about 2 minutes; stir in the lemon juice. Pour the mixture into the pie dish over the strawberry halves.
• Refrigerate until completely chilled, about 1 hour.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim crust to 1/2 in. beyond rim of plate; flute edge. In a large bowl, beat egg. Beat in sugar, flour and vanilla until well blended. Gently stir in rhubarb and strawberries. Pour into crust. For topping, in a small bowl, combine flour, brown sugar and oats; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over fruit. , Bake 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°; bake until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, about 35 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• In small bowl stir together 1/4 cup of the water and cornstarch. Set aside.
• In large saucepan combine remaining 1/4 cup water, rhubarb, sugar and orange peel. Cook, covered, over medium-high heat until simmering. Remove cover. Simmer, uncovered, about 5 minutes or until rhubarb is very tender, stirring occasionally.
• Stir cornstarch mixture. Gradually add to rhubarb mixture, stirring constantly. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture thickens and boils. Remove from heat. Gently stir in strawberries. Spoon into crust. Cover surface with plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 4 hours.
• Serve with whipped topping. Store in refrigerator.

Steps:

• Prepare the pastry: combine the flour, salt and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Using a fork or pastry cutter, work half of the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse meal. Quickly work the remaining butter into the dough until the biggest pieces are the size of lima beans. Drizzle in the water in several additions, tossing and mixing between each. (It should look rather ropy and rough.) Stop adding water when a few bits of dry flour remain in the bottom of the bowl; do not overwork the dough or it will become tough. Gather two-thirds of the dough and wrap tightly with plastic wrap. Do the same with the remaining third. Flatten into disks. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. When the dough is chilled, roll out the larger piece and line a nine-inch pie pan.
• If rhubarb is thick, peel it. Combine rhubarb and strawberries in a bowl. Mix sugar and tapioca together and fold gently into the strawberries and rhubarb. Allow to macerate for 15 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 425.
• Spoon fruit into pastry shell and dot with butter. Roll out remaining pastry, cut into strips three-quarters of an inch wide and weave a lattice to cover the pie. You can simply lay the strips on top in criss-cross fashion if weaving is not one of your skills. Seal, trim and crimp the edges. Brush the lattice with milk and sprinkle with a bit of sugar.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Lower heat to 350 degrees and bake 40 minutes longer, until pastry has browned and filling begins to bubble. Let pie cool completely before serving, at least 3 hours and up to overnight to set the filling.