One of my favorite parts about spring is that rhubarb is in season. For as long as I can remember, my parents have had a rhubarb patch in their garden or yard, sometimes two or three. Rhubarb is a plant with huge leaves and reddish green stalks. The leaves are poisonous, but the stalks are edible and oh, so good! When my brothers and I were little, we’d pick rhubarb stalks, snap off the leaves, and just chew on the tart stems. However, rhubarb is even better cooked. I love rhubarb sauce and rhubarb crisp, but my favorite is rhubarb custard pie. And, my aunt Dixie’s rhubarb pie recipe is the absolute best!
Growing up, I was very lucky to have several special aunts. Aunt Dixie lived just a quarter mile down the road. I have great memories of Christmas cookie decorating and impromptu dinners with Aunt Dixie, Uncle Leroy, and my cousin Mike. Aunt Dixie gave me my very first cookbook, a cookbook that I still have and use to this day.
I’ve always loved tart pies–lemon meringue and rhubarb are two of my favorites. Aunt Dixie’s rhubarb pie recipe is the best!
How to make Aunt Dixie’s Rhubarb Custard Pie
Picking your rhubarb
The first step in making rhubarb custard pie is to pick your rhubarb. Choose stalks that are 12 to 18 inches long. You can either cut each one near the base or just twist and pull it out. Make sure to cut off the leaves and discard them. Rhubarb season is about a month long, but once the plants go to seed, it’s all over.
Ingredients
For a ten-inch pie, you’ll need four cups of diced rhubarb, pastry for a double crust pie, three eggs, three tablespoons of flour, and one and three quarters cups of sugar. If you are making a nine inch pie, use three cups of rhubarb, two eggs, two tablespoons of flour, and one and a third cups of sugar. You can use fresh or frozen rhubarb.
Putting the Rhubarb Custard Pie together
Start by cleaning and dicing your rhubarb into 1/2 inch pieces. You can either mix all of the other ingredients together and pour the egg mixture over the rhubarb once it’s in your pie crust, or you can add each ingredient separately. I prefer to mix the sugar and flour into the rhubarb and then add the beaten eggs, stirring everything together before adding it to the pie crust.
Once you’ve added the rhubarb mixture to your bottom pie crust, you can either add a top crust or a streusel topping. I prefer a two-crust pie. For convenience, I usually use a store bought crust. You can find them in the refrigerator section of your grocery store, near the biscuits.
Baking your pie
The rhubarb custard pie should be baked in a 400 degree oven for 45 minutes. Watch the crust and cover the edges with foil if they are getting too brown.
Serving
Cutting your pie will be easier if you let it cool a little. Rhubarb custard pie is great served alone, but even better with vanilla ice cream. Try it–you won’t be disappointed!
Aunt Dixie's Rhubarb Custard Pie
Ingredients
- Pastry for a double crust pie
- 3 beaten eggs
- 3 tbsp flour
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 4 cups diced rhubarb
Instructions
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Mix eggs, flour, sugar, and rhubarb together.
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Place in prepared pie crust. Cover with top crust and crimp edges.
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Bake at 400 degrees for 45 minutes.
Final Thoughts on Aunt Dixie’s Rhubarb Custard Pie
I hope you enjoy Aunt Dixie’s rhubarb custard pie as much as I do. It’s my favorite pie!
For more Cleland Clan recipes, check out Grammy’s Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies or our amazing apple crisp.
Oh my gosh my mouth is watering looking at this…I could just eat this with the custard too…yummy. will be trying this out xx
I have never had this rhubarb before because we do not see it here in our country. But the outcome looks simply delicious. Custard Pie is the favorite of many that I know and I just love it. Great recipe for foodies like me.
This reminds me a lot of my childhood. My grandmother had a large rhubarb patch in her back yard. We would take the fresh stalks and dip them in sugar before eating them – it was one of the things we looked forward to most during rhubarb season! I’m going to have to see if I can get my hands on some fresh rhubarb so that I can give this a try!
This looks so delicious and brings back so many childhood memories! We had rhubarbs in the garden and my mom used to make pies out of it all the time. Not only that, but when I was really little, she’d just hand me a rhubarb stalk and I’d run around the garden, munching it! For some reason, I really enjoyed raw rhubarb.
i love all kinds of pies especially apple but will try this recipe it looks easy and thanks for all the pics jerry godinho
Looks very delicious! I didn’t try the alike pie before but I am sure I would like it a lot
I’ve never tried rhubarb custard pie before but it sounds amazing. Definitely one to try soon.
I haven’t had rhubarb pie in what feels like forever, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it here where I live. I need to check the next time I pass by my fruit vendor! I remember going to a farm where you can pick your own fruits and they had fresh rhubarb pie. It was so delicious! Do you have a recipe for the pastry part of the pie?
I do have my mother-in-law’s pie crust recipe, but I’ve never posted it. I use store bought a lot of the time because it’s so convenient.
I am sorry to admit that as much of a vegetable lover I am I have never in my life had Rhubarb. It looks delicious and kudos to Aunt Dixie for what looks to be a great recipe. We will have to give this a try.
This looks delicious! Our rhubarb is not growing, not sure why. But I’ll be sure to make this pie if it decides it wants to grow this year! We had a very large April snow, so I’m wondering if that’s what did it.
Rhubarb sounds amazing. I’ve never tried it, but I will definitely have to try this recipe.
Yum I have not have this in years, I think this recipe left us when my grandmother passed as it was an old family recipe, but I can not find it any where. I got to give this one a try, thank you!
I love custard, very sumptuous meal
I am going to try this. I have LOTS of rhubarb from my garden.
This looks amazing! Just in time too – my rhubarb is almost ready for picking…can’t wait!
With all of the cooking I do, I’ve never tried rhubarb. I think the time has come! Thanks, Tracy …I plan to give this a try!
I’ve never actually had a rhubarb pie but this looks so delicious I’m gonna have to give it a try!! Thanks for sharing 😊
I have never actually had a rhubarb pie but I do love tarts-I’ll have to give this a try some day! Thanks for sharing, looks delicious 😄
Uh the real excellent pie of the aunt, the one whose recipe we all want. Yummy!
My husband makes a delicious custard I may combine what I learned from this post to what he makes and see what we get!
Great recipe! Definitely give it a try
Ah this looks so scrumptious! My husband loves custard and is also obsessed with strawberry rhubarb.. I might just have to try this out for Father’s Day!