| Show w wr r r x r t n w f. f nJ Creative Cooking By LIZ DARTON For something new and different for dessert rhubarb is in season now and just de de- de- de licious Rhubarb is good stewed or used in your favorite pie or dessert or good with ice cream ream or whipped cream The first rhubarb recipe is isa isa isa a favorite of the Dean Holman Holman Hol- Hol man family Try it with ice cream If you OU cant can't find rhubarb in your grocery store look in your neighbors neighbor's yard Many people have it in their flower garden as it makes an interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting addition to landscaping It grows fast so people are usually willing to share RHUBARB CRUNCH 3 cup diced rhubarb 1 cup sugar 3 Tb flour lour 1 cup brown sugar i cup rolled oats 1 cups flour J cup butter Combine rhubarb sugar and 3 tb fib flour Place rhubarb mixture in a greased 8 x 8 pan Cut together other I ingredients and sprinkle over rhubarb mixture Bake at degrees for 40 minutes THESE NEXT recipes are arc Irene Olsons Olson's Being of German Germar Ger Ger- mar man extraction she loves rhubarb and often cooks with it When spring comes she can hardly wait to make a rhubarb pie The first recipe is for strawberry rhubarb pie STRAWBERRY RHUBARB PIE 1 cup sugar 2 Tb Ib quick-cooking quick tapioca Va la tsp salt salta Va a tr sp p. p nutmeg y Va cup orange ju juice ce 3 cups cut rhubarb 1 cup sliced strawberries 1 Tb butter or margarine Combine sugar tapioca salt nutmeg orange juice and rhubarb place plage in 9 inch pie pan lined with orange pastry Top with strawberries and dot butter Arrange pastry cut in shape of daisies daisies daisies dais dais- ies atop berries Bake in hot oven degrees 40 to 50 minutes Orange Pastry Add 1 tablespoon tablespoon tablespoon table table- spoon grated rated orange peel to plain pastry recipe RHUBARB PIE 1 quart cutup cut rhubarb 1 cup sugar third one-third cup flour pinch salt 34 cup cream Beat the sugar flour salt and cream until smooth and thick Put the rhubarb into the unbaked pie shell Pour sugar mixture over the rhubarb rhu rhu- barb Bake in hot oven degrees fur for about 20 minutes or until CI begins to brown Reduce temperature to moderate moderate moderate mod mod- erate degrees and continue continue continue con con- bating bat until filling thickens and becomes glossy Makes 1 six to eight servings HERE IS a good never-fail never pie pic recipe FAVORITE PASTRY 4 cups sifted flour 1 B tsp salt 1 Bj 14 cup shortening 1 Tb sugar 1 Tb vinegar 1 egg eggI I fe cup water Sift flour sugar and salt cut in shortening until mixture mixture mixture mix mix- ture is crumbly Beat water egg and vin vinegar gar together and combine lightly with flour and f shortening Makes enough dough for five pastry shells For best results chill dough 20 minutes before rolling |
