Comments on: Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:42:34 +0000

Hello,
this looks FANTASTIC!!!
I am so hungry for this pie right now, too bad it’s 9 pm, the stores in Germany are closed at this time and even if they were open I couldn’t buy any frozen rhubarb! Plus it’s February, so I guess I will have to wait a couple of month…but then there will be no stopping me!!! lol
Cutting the pie with some Vivaldi was a very nice touch!
Thank you and keep up the good work!

Eva

By: Breadtopia

Breadtopia — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:51:59 +0000

Hi Marty,

Thanks for the nice feedback.
Maybe I can convince Denyce to let me shoot a video of her making her English Apple Pie. It’s pretty awesome and simple (for her).

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:49:51 +0000

Your Strawberry/Rhubarb pie recipe turned out Great. My wife could not believe I could bake a pie like that. Now do you have a recipe for Apple pie?

Marty

By: Derry

Derry — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:17:28 +0000

I meant to end my email by saying ,”You guys are great.!”

By: Derry

Derry — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:15:16 +0000

Dear Denyce,
I just finished checking in with your pie video for the 3rd or 4th time as I love making rhubarb pie and always need your reminders to make it perfect. I LOVE the video and all the comments and plan to enter a pie in the the county fair next year. I live in northern Va and rhubarb grows pretty well here, though not as well as in in the midwest. Also, very few people aound here know about rhubarb and its unique flavor, so I hope to win something some day. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise and actually showing me how to make that perfect crust.!
You guys

By: michael

michael — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:44:28 +0000

Wow great video, great looking pie

By: Stella

Stella — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:56:33 +0000

another project to undertake!. That pie looked lovely. Thanks for the inspiration

By: Breadtopia

Breadtopia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:19:10 +0000

I have a KitchenAid stand mixer and love it for doing all kinds of mixing. But I prefer to use the food processor for pie crusts because it uses knives to cut the dough very quickly and therefore develops very little gluten to keep the crust flaky.
If you do not have a food processor, you can mix it by hand by using 1 sharp knife in each hand and cutting through the butter and flour over and over, moving the blades against each other in a sort of scissor-like fashion. This takes longer, though, so make sure the butter is very cold when you start.
Or… just go ahead and give the stand mixer a try. Do use cold butter, and just try not to over-mix it. It is Ok if it is crumbly before you add the water.
Hope that is not too confusing.
–Denyce

By: Breadtopia

Breadtopia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:07:40 +0000

The food processor I used was a standard one, between 7 and 8 cups. (I had to go check, since I never really looked at that before.)
Thanks for the compliment on the pie. It WAS good. Unfortunately, it could get quite messy if I tried to change pie reality into virtual reality by sending a piece via email. Probably would upset the entire balance of the universe. Therefore, I heartily encourage you to bake your own when the strawberries and rhubarb come up this summer!
–Denyce

By: John A. Mele

John A. Mele — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:57:04 +0000

Denyce:

Can a KitchenAid Stand Mixer be used in lieu of the Food Processor to make the dough and if so can the butter be added cold as you have shown? I’m not sure the butter would mix in the same.

JAM