Rhubarb Pie
4 C. Fresh or frozen Rhubarb, cut in 1/2" long pieces
1-1/2 C. Sugar
6 T. All Purpose Flour
2 Unbaked frozen pie crusts
1 T. Unsalted Butter (optional)
Preparation time (exclusive of baking and cooling) about 15 minutes.
Yield: one 8" pie
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
While the oven is heating,
In a large mixiong bowl, combine flour and suger till well-blended.
Put about 1/4 of the sugar/flour mix inbto one pie crust, and tilt and shake it this way and that til it seems to be roughly evenly distributed, and completely coats the entire crust below the edge.
Put the rhubarb into the rest of the sugar/flour mix, and stir till blended. NOw, dump all that into the shell on top of the sugar and flour you already put in.
If you want butter in the pie (it makes it a little richer, but a lot messier) now's the time to dot the top of your pile of rhubarb with butter.
Wet your fingers and dampen the edge of the bottom crust all 'round.
Now, carefully lay the other pie shell atop the whole thing and coax it out of the aluminum pan, gently pressing the edges together with the bottom, to seal it all. Try not to crack or destroy te top crust, but if it does sort of break up, all is not lost. Just sprinkle a little bit of water on the break, and skoosh it back together with your fingertips (also slightly moistened).
Puncture the top crust in several places with the tines of a fork (I generally nail it about five or six times, all over)
PLace on the lower rack in the oven for 15 minutes. Turn the oven down to 350 degrees F, and raise the pie to the middle rack bake for 40-45 minutes, untill the top crust is an even golden brown.
Cool on a rack to room temperature or a little coolerr before trying to slice it, otherwise it will fall apart as you take the slices out.
This makes a fairly tart pie, which I prefer. If you like yours sweeter, you can add more sugar. Fannie Farmer recommends a ratio of 2:1 Rhubarb to sugar, but I find that a little too sweet for my palete
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And my estimation of what is "good" is sometimes at odds with literary pundits.
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ENGINEERING CONVERSIONS
1.Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter? = Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup? = Won ton
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash? = 1 microscope
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement? = 1 bananosecond
5. Weight an evangelist carries with God? = 1 billigram
6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour? = Knot furlong
7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone? = 1 Rod Serling
8. Half of a large intestine? = 1 semicolon
9. 1,000,000 aches? = 1 megahurtz
10. Basic unit of laryngitis? = 1 hoarsepower
11. Shortest distance between two jokes? = A straight line
12. 453.6 graham crackers? = 1 pound cake
13. 10 saxophones? = 1 tenor saxophone
14. 1 million bicycles? = 2 megacycles
15. 365.25 days? = 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds? = 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 10 cards? = 1 decacards
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs? = 1 Fig Newton
19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks? = 1 literhosen
20. 1 millionth of a fish? = 1 microfiche
21. 1 pins? = 1 terrapin
22. 10 rations? = 1 decoration
23. 100 rations? = 1 C-ration
24. 2 monograms? = 1 diagram
25. 8 nickels? = 2 paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital?
= 1 IV League
27. 100 Senators? = Not 1 decision
28. 1 million-million microphones? = 1 megaphone
ANd, for you traffic and highway engineers:
29. 1 armed shore bird = guard rail
Just remember: Two wrongs don't make a right, but three left turns do.
1.Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter? = Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup? = Won ton
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash? = 1 microscope
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement? = 1 bananosecond
5. Weight an evangelist carries with God? = 1 billigram
6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour? = Knot furlong
7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone? = 1 Rod Serling
8. Half of a large intestine? = 1 semicolon
9. 1,000,000 aches? = 1 megahurtz
10. Basic unit of laryngitis? = 1 hoarsepower
11. Shortest distance between two jokes? = A straight line
12. 453.6 graham crackers? = 1 pound cake
13. 10 saxophones? = 1 tenor saxophone
14. 1 million bicycles? = 2 megacycles
15. 365.25 days? = 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds? = 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 10 cards? = 1 decacards
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs? = 1 Fig Newton
19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks? = 1 literhosen
20. 1 millionth of a fish? = 1 microfiche
21. 1 pins? = 1 terrapin
22. 10 rations? = 1 decoration
23. 100 rations? = 1 C-ration
24. 2 monograms? = 1 diagram
25. 8 nickels? = 2 paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital?
= 1 IV League
27. 100 Senators? = Not 1 decision
28. 1 million-million microphones? = 1 megaphone
ANd, for you traffic and highway engineers:
29. 1 armed shore bird = guard rail
Just remember: Two wrongs don't make a right, but three left turns do.
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Hello all. MY name is DLizze (for those of you who wonder, it is pronounced just the same as it is spelled 
). Some of you may know me from another place. For the rest of you, a brief introduction is in order. I think Douglas Adams sums me up pretty well in his description of Earth in the Hitchhiker;s Guide: "Mostly harmless".
By the way, for you youngsters out there, a Ford Prefect was a little sedan manufactured in England from 1938 forward (except during the war years) by the UK branch of Ford Motor Company. It was the top of the line in their sedans, and in the late nineteen fifties boasted the following optional extras: heater, windscreen wipers, radio, and leather upholstery. Ford Prefect went out of production in 1961.
). Some of you may know me from another place. For the rest of you, a brief introduction is in order. I think Douglas Adams sums me up pretty well in his description of Earth in the Hitchhiker;s Guide: "Mostly harmless". By the way, for you youngsters out there, a Ford Prefect was a little sedan manufactured in England from 1938 forward (except during the war years) by the UK branch of Ford Motor Company. It was the top of the line in their sedans, and in the late nineteen fifties boasted the following optional extras: heater, windscreen wipers, radio, and leather upholstery. Ford Prefect went out of production in 1961.