Laura Ingalls Wilder refers to rhubarb as "pie plant" in at least one of her Little House on the Prairie books, so the name may have roots (so to speak) in the American pioneer movement.
@@lisamoore6804 It was from Laura's early married life, when Rose was still a baby. She had workmen at her house helping with some big farm chore, and she fed them "pie plant", but forgot to add the sugar! She was mortified, but the men were gracious about it and just spooned some on top, under the crust.
When I was young, I read Laura Ingalls-Wilder’s “Little House” books, and I remember that there was a story where she, as a young newly married woman, made a meal for some workmen. She detailed the contents of the meal in her story, which included dessert at the end, which was a pie made with ‘pie plant’. I had never heard the term either, but I kept reading, wondering what it was. She apparently cut and mixed the plant stalks with water and some sort of thickener and put it into the crusted pie tin and baked it as usual. After serving the dessert, she noticed one of the workmen lifting the top crust on his slice pie, and sprinkling extra sugar on top. She thought this odd, until she realized that she had forgotten to add ANY sugar to the pie plant. She was mortified and apologized, but the Workman diplomatically stated that he like it that way, so that each diner could add as much sugar as they wanted. I figured that it must be rhubarb, but I never got confirmation of this until I moved from Kansas to Wisconsin, and was told as much when my children started reading the series. That story stuck with me, because I thought that the charitable remark from the workman was rather deftly handled. Then as I got older and read more about the history of westward expansion, and I realized how infrequently frontier workmen could enjoy a ‘sit down meal’. He was probably just grateful to be fed at all, so his manners showed. Certainly his mother would have been proud of him. Laura bore the indignity well...she remarked in the book that the pie must have been ‘absolutely horrid’ without sugar.
Wisconsin might be the clue there. As Laura's parents were from that area before moving farther west. I listen to the radio show A Way With Words quite a bit and this query about the whole pie plant thing is exactly up their alley
I believe there is at least one other instance where it is mentioned that my angles is making pie from pie plant. I can't remember which book I would have to go find it
Yes, that was where I heard about pie plant as well. If I remember correctly, she made for a group of people working on her house the day after she and Almanzo were married.
Pie plant! Thank you for solving a mystery. In the Little House Books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ma Ingalls made pies with pie plant and I had no idea what it was!!! Yay!!!
When I was growing up my grandmothers on my fathers side called it pie plant. They were from Finland and what was Yugoslavia so maybe a northern or Eastern European thing? And not only did they bake with it, but it was added to jams to cut the sweetness, barbecue sauce, and a very hot pepper sauce. It was also pickled and often added to relishes. The peeling was recommended depending on when you picked it because the skin thickened and became a bit too fibrous later in the year so it didn't break down while cooking. Hope this helps?
OMG, what a perfect recipie for today. I have just weeded my garden, and thinned out the rhubarb. Popped it in the fridge, and sat down to cool off. Flipped on youtube, and the algorythm offers me my favourite cooking show.... huzzah!
I am in the U.K. 🇬🇧 We call rhubarb rhubarb! My family has grown rhubarb for at least three generations that I know of. I only ever saw rhubarb called pie-plant when I started reading American cookbooks. I had to find out what it was that they meant! My family never peel rhubarb, only if we let the sticks overgrow and they end up like broomstick handles!! They are a bit tougher then, so do need de-stringing! We also keep the sugar content to a minimum - we like the sourness in our family! 😁 I love your channel, and your passion! Thank you for all that you do and share! 😁XXX
Same here in Australia. I've only ever know it as rhubarb, and in fact I've never had it as a pie. The closest I've ever had it in pie, is stewed with apples, and served as a crumble.
If you have one rhubarb plant you will have it for more than 10 generations - I threw out some leaves way out back and now there's one growing in the compost pile...
Hi Glen, my parents were from rural eastern Kentucky and were born in 1928 and 1934. "Pie plant" is indeed the name both sides of the family used for rhubarb. I rarely heard it called anything else. Everyone grew pie plant on their farms. Besides making pie they also made jam and tarts. Strawberry rhubarb pie is a favorite in the local area of Cincinnati, Ohio where I live. The parents and grandparents had never prepared it that way until they had that combination here. By the way Jules, I love your dress!
I have no idea where I know that term from, but when I saw the title of this video I said to myself, "Ah! Rhubarb!" My people came from Ireland and Wales in the late 1600s and early 1700s and were early settlers in Virginia, then Kentucky, then Missouri and Oklahoma. Quite a few of them were Quakers. Somewhere along the way, I was told that rhubarb was pie plant.
Because of this video, I now own a 6 sectioned fluted tart pan. I already had to freeze all the rhubarb survived our drought in MN. Can't wait to make some tarts 😊
I'm 70yo. My maternal grandmother had a rhubarb bed and she called it "pie plant". She lived her total life of 97 years in South Central Kentucky. She lived through the great depression and two world wars. When she had sugar she made PIE. I've had many of her rhubarb pies, sometimes combined with strawberries, apples, peaches, pears or blackberries. Sometimes she'd just make the filling and spoon it over buttered skillet biscuits cooked on top of the potbelly stove in the living room. Dang FINE eat'n. Grandmother was a really good cook and my mother took it up from her. Mother is 90yo now and doesn't cook anymore. "I like to cook" because "I like to eat" but I'm not the cook they were.
Love waking up Sunday mornings and watching these videos. I’m from Massachusetts and all of my family had rhubarb growing in our backyards - I’ve never heard it called pie-plant. I’ve lived in Texas for the past 30 years where only people from the north know what it tastes like😊
We live on a farm in rural central Pennsylvania and rhubarb desserts are a staple here. I just watched this episode with my 94 year old grandmother who was born in 1925. She is a great cook and grew up on a small family fruit farm. This is the first time either of us have ever heard of term pie plant so this name wasn't used around here. We are so rural in this area, that most people still spoke german at home until WW2 so some German names of things are somewhat common. The whiskey is from Schenley which is right outside Pittsburgh so very different than this part of Pennsylvania. We love spending time watching the channel together talking and tasting foods. Love to see your take on a fresh fruit tart, as we can't quite seem to recreate the one we had in Paris.
I've never known anyone with rhubarb in the deep south U.S. unless they moved here and brought the fondness for rhubarb with them. But one of the comments in the video caught my attention and made me think "The United States and Canada, two adjoining countries, divided by a common language." Thanks for another great video. I've got 50 pounds of peaches to work up today, think I'll make some little peach tarts.
When I'm too lazy to make pastry, I make up pumpkin pie filling, pour it into a deep square corning casserole, and "bake" it in the microwave, until it's set. It's not as pretty as pie. But pumpkin pie without the crust scooped into a bowl and topped with whipped cream is delicious and surprisingly easy.
I'm an Aussie and have lots of trouble thinking of pumpkin as anything other than a vegetable. It's wonderful roasted. Sweeter than sweet potato, which is also a vegetable.
If you did it with a sugar substitute (like Swerve) it's Keto friendly & Diabetic friendly too. (I am neither, but my friend is & I come up with recipes for her a lot)
@@jennytmaher Pumpkin is also great in stews and soups. Just cut into chunks just a bit larger than you would a white potato and toss into the pot along with everything else.
@@jennytmaher 👍 Almost any veg roasted is delicious (I think root veg. in particular) It's strange, even though I know they're from the same family, when I think pumpkin, I think pie; when I think squash, I think of it only in savoury form (salt & 'lotsa butter!) When I think sweet potato, I think, 'yuck'. lol. I've watched a few Aussie cooking shows (Master Chef) and I believe you refer to all squash as 'pumpkin' (if I'm not mistaken) ...The idea of the American sw. potato/yam with marshmallow dish makes me ill.
I was raised in upstate New York near the Canadian border and my grams always called it pie plant and grew bunches of it. Best thing ever, a knife and a salt shaker and raiding the rhubarb early 😇
First, let me say how much I appreciate all the time and attention you give to your recipes. Second, growing up in Washington state, USA I would NEVER EVER EVER eat rhubarb. I think it’s the most vile plant every cultivated. In fact, my stomach is flip flopping now just thinking about it. Keep on cooking. Luv your stuff!❤️🙌🏻🥰🤗☀️😊
I grew up in central Wisconsin, all of my old Norwegian relatives called rhubarb "pie plant". They cooked rhubarb in every way because it was the first thing out of the ground in the spring.
I’m from the Midwest region of the US, and we call it rhubarb. This is the first time I have heard it called pie plant. Thanks for all the great videos. I recently discovered your channel and am hooked! Special note for Jules today-your dress is super cute!!
I grew up in southwest Missouri in the 1930s. Rhubarb was always called pie plant then and in that place. I can't remember when I first heard it called rhubarb. This is a very good recipe, similar to the one I make. I never liked pie plant pies as a child, because it was just rhubarb and sugar, and I hadn't learned to appreciate the distinctive rhubarb flavor. This recipe, with the egg, has a somewhat custardy quality, and is delicious.
We lived in Windsor for a few years, and had rhubarb growing in our yard, so we just ate it as a snack while we played. Never had rhubarb pie because my mom didn't like to cook - food was basic and unimaginative but always there. I haven't had rhubarb since, but I think it might do well as a refrigerator sweet pickle... so I may try it!
I'm from Pennsylvania and have an aunt who grew "pie plant" in her yard. It was only years later I learned it was called rhubarb. She made a pie filling very similar except instead of flour she used cornstarch, added some lemon juice and raisins. Sometimes in the summer, she would add some strawberries as well.
Thanks so much for your videos on depression era cooking. My folks grew up in the country near Jackson Mich. in those days and I remember a number of the dishes you make. I really have been enjoying your videos as they bring back great memories! Yes, the older ladies in church and my grandparents called it pie plant. They were born 1890-1900's. I remember asking why pie plant, and was told that, as opposed to other fruits, pie plant was only good in a pie. But my mom just boiled it with a little sugar into a sauce for ice-cream or over Graham crackers. We liked it more tart. My dad talked about his mom's Potato Rolls being a favorite and she making them for every occasion. A picture shows them large & tall, 3 puffy sections like a shamrock, like they maybe were made in a tall cupcake mold but bigger. I assume they are yeast rolls. Have you seen or made something like that? Thank you again for all your wonderful work making your videos! They have been a real joy the past few months. Hope you have a nice restful relaxation and get recharged in due time! Thanks, Jeff
I have never seen rhubarb used when it is so green though, we always waited for it to be that rich ruby colour all along the stalks before stewing it here in Australia.
Us 'older folks' are use to it being called pie plant but I don't think many people call it that anymore, except maybe the Amish here in Wisconsin. What ever you call it it's delicious. Thanks for the recipe.
My grandma always called rhubarb "pie plant." So I was super excited to see the name of this video! She was born about 1898 in northwest Ohio, and lived there all her life. I had no idea anybody else ever used, or had even heard of, that name. I'm thrilled to see the term used by someone else!
I am in my 50's and have lived in Pennsylvania all my life. I have lived in Western PA (Near Pittsburgh and Eastern PA near Philadelphia) I nor any one I knew ever called Rhubarb "Pie Plant". So maybe it was something that family specifically used. Great recipe BTW, rhubarb is a favorite of mine and always keeping an eye out for new ideas. 👍🥧
I’ve never heard the term pie plant, and I love old books/historical novels. Well, that’s also why I’m here watching someone create old recipes. Oregon
LOVE those rhubarb pies and tarts. Exceptionally good with some fresh strawberries. Older rhubarb can have fibrous skin...so it was commonly peeled in our home.
Hi Glen, here in the UK a tart is a pastry case with out a top crust, a pie has a crust top and bottom, a lattice top can be a pie or tart - then we head into filling classification 😃 The only time I've ever heard rhubarb referred to as "pie plant" is in North America. My family come from the rhubarb triangle in Yorkshire (yes it's a real place) always called it rhubarb there.
Wow, I am envious of all that rhubarb. What with all the shutdowns I wasn't able to get to the place where I usually buy my rhubarb, so I missed pie plant season this year. Hearing it called "pie plant" tells me I have to figure out how to grow my own.
We peel the rhubarb harvested from my parents garden, it is a very old plant, grows huge and is very very tart that gets a bit more stringy. The rhubarb from my grandmas place is called Strawberry rhubarb and is small and finer, not as sour and milder, we dont need to peel it. Personally i think peeling is a preference. My sister and i found an awesome fish curry recipe that used rhubarb in it, it was amazing. And it opened up my mind about more than just Pie and desert recipes with rhubarb.
Absolutely yes, I grew up with "pie plant in central US, Iowa to be exact. It has been many years since I heard anyone call it that. And now I live where rhubarb can not grow.
My family is from the eastern Pennsylvania upstate coal regions. I’ve never heard the term Pie Plant before. I haven’t seen it in my Nana’s cookbook either. My family used to make Strawberry Rhubarb pies when I was growing up. I have to say, I have never been interested in rhubarb. But now I am tempted to try it.
I'm Scots and have lived in the Highlands and just outside Glasgow and never heard it referred to as such. We used to eat it as bairns with a poke(wee paper bag) of sugar to dip into.
yes, and apples of paradise is another old name for tomato... in the 1920s till the late 1960s you could find pie dishes l think are lightly larger than the ones you used... and they actually came from the UK as individual pies were served there for dinner, we have some, but they are made from aluminium...
Hi Glen From Ottawa my name is Aim's long time watcher. I love your French sort of translation I'm born French and theirs expression that are really hard to explain Like tarte. Anyways let's get to the point I had a neighbour from pensalvania who moved to Ottawa in 1946 as a young woman that I would later call her Miss mentzel she purchased house where I eventually would move in next to her 40 years later. When I got to know her she was in her late 60 and early 70 nices woman ever, she would teach me allot in English language that and my Irish step mother anyways, it made me have no accent in fresh or English. Also She would make some aswome treats and get a young boy out of trouble to walk her dog. anyway as she was originally from pensalvania she had different names for many things. Rhubarb pie was one of them another that had me confused was called Dutch pie that I eventually figured out to be corn pie. Another pie that had me a bit confused about was raising pie but it was actually red curran pie. But not sure if it's a pensalvania thing or German thing. Like she explained to me as a young boy that pensalvania had allot of German settlers. That actually made many foods have different names. Sorry for the long story but hope it makes you intrigued to find more different names.
This just gave me a flashback to when my grandma would make rhubarb pie - I seem to remember her peeling the rhubarb! Hadn't thought about that in years.
I lived in Kansas and did know of it being called pie plant. Apparently settlers from back east planted it immediately wherever they homesteaded because it would yield a pie making "fruit" long before any fruit trees they planted would. Makes sense to me. Also have roots in New England and Alabama where I've only heard it called rhubarb. Love it best straight up, no strawberries!
My family has always called it rhubarb and a tradition in our home. Down through the generations, the first batch was/is a sauce of just rhubarb and sugar (no water). It's kept in the fridge and served over ice cream or plain white cake. (sometimes in a bowl on its own) Never lasts very long at our house
i grew up in Missouri in the 1970s. I remember grandparents in their late sixties, and great grandparents in their late eighties calling it pie plant. No one younger ever called it that, but then those younger rarely ate it.
In rural Ohio (next door to PA), and I've never heard of pie-plant, but I instantly assumed what it was. Maybe somewhere deep in the recesses of my mind we've called it that around here, but I had forgotten about it.
I read about pie plant in one of the Little House on the Prairie books - the lesser-known The First Four Years. I'm not sure when I discovered that pie plant = rhubarb, though. (I'm from Manitoba.)
Hi Glen - Over 25 years ago I was in New York's Catskill Mountains and stopped for lunch at a small cafe that I remembered from my childhood some 35 years earlier. The homemade desserts listed on the chalkboard were strawberry-rhubarb jello and pie. They were out of the jello so I ordered the pie, which was the best pie I have had in my 73 years, but I neither saw nor tasted strawberry in it. I mentioned this to the waitress who, as it turned out, was also the owner and cook. She said the board had an error. This was orange rhubarb pie. She started to tell me how to make it but was called to the phone and I never got the details. I thought about that pie for several years, finally locating an address and writing to ask for the recipe. Months later I received a reply from the woman's nephew. The cafe had closed when the woman retired, and she had passed on. He kindly sent me her handwritten recipe card, but I could see it was not the same pie.It was a two crust pie with just some orange peel. What I had was streusel-topped, with a dairy component like.in Dutch apple pie. I didn't see or taste fresh orange peel. I suspect the sweetener was orange marmalade and that there was some chopped fresh orange or canned mandarin oranges. Since you love rhubarb, you might consider making such a pie. I tried with just rhubarb and chopped fresh oranges, thickened with tapioca, in a two crust pie, which was disappointing. It was a few more years before Ithought about marmalade, and by then was working way too many hours for baking. Now that I am retired, I am to disabled to cook and bake as much as I once did.
Just watched the rhubarb tart episode. I used to hear it called pie plant by folks of my grandparents generation but not so much anymore. They would also sometimes call it by its German name, piestengel, which I think meant "pie stalk" or "pie stem".
That filling is nearly identical to the filling for the rhubarb squares I make. They have a shortbread base, instead of pie crust. They are absolutely fantastic!
MN native here- Yes, some people in this region do refer to rhubarb as “pie plant”. Rhubarb pie is a treat for my TX in-laws when they visit, as they cannot grow it where they live.
In Laura Ingalls "The First Four Years" she wrote about making a pie-plant pie (and forgot the sugar). She was in Missouri at the time, but originally from Wisconsin - perhaps pie-plant is an American mid-West thing?
In the Little House on the Prairie Books, they do indeed call Rhubarb Pie Plant.
Laura Ingalls Wilder refers to rhubarb as "pie plant" in at least one of her Little House on the Prairie books, so the name may have roots (so to speak) in the American pioneer movement.
I have a Little House on the Prairie cook book. I shall look this up.
No mention of "Pie Plant" at all :(
@@lisamoore6804 It was from Laura's early married life, when Rose was still a baby. She had workmen at her house helping with some big farm chore, and she fed them "pie plant", but forgot to add the sugar! She was mortified, but the men were gracious about it and just spooned some on top, under the crust.
This is exactly what I remembered!
Oh cool, I read the series but don't rmb that.
When I was young, I read Laura Ingalls-Wilder’s “Little House” books, and I remember that there was a story where she, as a young newly married woman, made a meal for some workmen. She detailed the contents of the meal in her story, which included dessert at the end, which was a pie made with ‘pie plant’. I had never heard the term either, but I kept reading, wondering what it was. She apparently cut and mixed the plant stalks with water and some sort of thickener and put it into the crusted pie tin and baked it as usual. After serving the dessert, she noticed one of the workmen lifting the top crust on his slice pie, and sprinkling extra sugar on top. She thought this odd, until she realized that she had forgotten to add ANY sugar to the pie plant. She was mortified and apologized, but the Workman diplomatically stated that he like it that way, so that each diner could add as much sugar as they wanted. I figured that it must be rhubarb, but I never got confirmation of this until I moved from Kansas to Wisconsin, and was told as much when my children started reading the series. That story stuck with me, because I thought that the charitable remark from the workman was rather deftly handled. Then as I got older and read more about the history of westward expansion, and I realized how infrequently frontier workmen could enjoy a ‘sit down meal’. He was probably just grateful to be fed at all, so his manners showed. Certainly his mother would have been proud of him. Laura bore the indignity well...she remarked in the book that the pie must have been ‘absolutely horrid’ without sugar.
Thanks that was an insightful explanation.
Wisconsin might be the clue there. As Laura's parents were from that area before moving farther west. I listen to the radio show A Way With Words quite a bit and this query about the whole pie plant thing is exactly up their alley
I believe there is at least one other instance where it is mentioned that my angles is making pie from pie plant. I can't remember which book I would have to go find it
Yes, that was where I heard about pie plant as well. If I remember correctly, she made for a group of people working on her house the day after she and Almanzo were married.
Thanks for this!! I love Julie's dress, very retro and appropriate for the theme.
I am from Québec and i have heard my grand mother saying "plante à tarte". Which means pie plant.
Pie plant! Thank you for solving a mystery. In the Little House Books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ma Ingalls made pies with pie plant and I had no idea what it was!!! Yay!!!
When I was growing up my grandmothers on my fathers side called it pie plant. They were from Finland and what was Yugoslavia so maybe a northern or Eastern European thing? And not only did they bake with it, but it was added to jams to cut the sweetness, barbecue sauce, and a very hot pepper sauce. It was also pickled and often added to relishes. The peeling was recommended depending on when you picked it because the skin thickened and became a bit too fibrous later in the year so it didn't break down while cooking. Hope this helps?
Great video as always! And LOvE Jules’ dress!
I'm from Kingston, Ontario, my Grandmothers called it pie plant
OMG, what a perfect recipie for today. I have just weeded my garden, and thinned out the rhubarb. Popped it in the fridge, and sat down to cool off. Flipped on youtube, and the algorythm offers me my favourite cooking show.... huzzah!
I am in the U.K. 🇬🇧 We call rhubarb rhubarb! My family has grown rhubarb for at least three generations that I know of.
I only ever saw rhubarb called pie-plant when I started reading American cookbooks. I had to find out what it was that they meant!
My family never peel rhubarb, only if we let the sticks overgrow and they end up like broomstick handles!! They are a bit tougher then, so do need de-stringing!
We also keep the sugar content to a minimum - we like the sourness in our family! 😁
I love your channel, and your passion! Thank you for all that you do and share! 😁XXX
Same here in Australia. I've only ever know it as rhubarb, and in fact I've never had it as a pie. The closest I've ever had it in pie, is stewed with apples, and served as a crumble.
If you have one rhubarb plant you will have it for more than 10 generations - I threw out some leaves way out back and now there's one growing in the compost pile...
My mother's family was from South Georgia, and I know that my grandmother used to call rhubarb "pie plant." Great episode. Love the old cookbooks.
Hi Glen, my parents were from rural eastern Kentucky and were born in 1928 and 1934. "Pie plant" is indeed the name both sides of the family used for rhubarb. I rarely heard it called anything else. Everyone grew pie plant on their farms. Besides making pie they also made jam and tarts. Strawberry rhubarb pie is a favorite in the local area of Cincinnati, Ohio where I live. The parents and grandparents had never prepared it that way until they had that combination here. By the way Jules, I love your dress!
I have no idea where I know that term from, but when I saw the title of this video I said to myself, "Ah! Rhubarb!" My people came from Ireland and Wales in the late 1600s and early 1700s and were early settlers in Virginia, then Kentucky, then Missouri and Oklahoma. Quite a few of them were Quakers. Somewhere along the way, I was told that rhubarb was pie plant.
That's awesome - when I saw the title of the video I thought it was a type of pie that workers in plants used to eat in the 30's😂
Because of this video, I now own a 6 sectioned fluted tart pan. I already had to freeze all the rhubarb survived our drought in MN. Can't wait to make some tarts 😊
I'm 70yo. My maternal grandmother had a rhubarb bed and she called it "pie plant". She lived her total life of 97 years in South Central Kentucky. She lived through the great depression and two world wars. When she had sugar she made PIE. I've had many of her rhubarb pies, sometimes combined with strawberries, apples, peaches, pears or blackberries. Sometimes she'd just make the filling and spoon it over buttered skillet biscuits cooked on top of the potbelly stove in the living room. Dang FINE eat'n. Grandmother was a really good cook and my mother took it up from her. Mother is 90yo now and doesn't cook anymore. "I like to cook" because "I like to eat" but I'm not the cook they were.
Love waking up Sunday mornings and watching these videos. I’m from Massachusetts and all of my family had rhubarb growing in our backyards - I’ve never heard it called pie-plant. I’ve lived in Texas for the past 30 years where only people from the north know what it tastes like😊
We live on a farm in rural central Pennsylvania and rhubarb desserts are a staple here. I just watched this episode with my 94 year old grandmother who was born in 1925. She is a great cook and grew up on a small family fruit farm. This is the first time either of us have ever heard of term pie plant so this name wasn't used around here. We are so rural in this area, that most people still spoke german at home until WW2 so some German names of things are somewhat common. The whiskey is from Schenley which is right outside Pittsburgh so very different than this part of Pennsylvania.
We love spending time watching the channel together talking and tasting foods. Love to see your take on a fresh fruit tart, as we can't quite seem to recreate the one we had in Paris.
I've never known anyone with rhubarb in the deep south U.S. unless they moved here and brought the fondness for rhubarb with them. But one of the comments in the video caught my attention and made me think "The United States and Canada, two adjoining countries, divided by a common language." Thanks for another great video. I've got 50 pounds of peaches to work up today, think I'll make some little peach tarts.
When I'm too lazy to make pastry, I make up pumpkin pie filling, pour it into a deep square corning casserole, and "bake" it in the microwave, until it's set. It's not as pretty as pie. But pumpkin pie without the crust scooped into a bowl and topped with whipped cream is delicious and surprisingly easy.
I'm an Aussie and have lots of trouble thinking of pumpkin as anything other than a vegetable. It's wonderful roasted. Sweeter than sweet potato, which is also a vegetable.
@@jennytmaher Both of which make a nice custard pie.
If you did it with a sugar substitute (like Swerve) it's Keto friendly & Diabetic friendly too. (I am neither, but my friend is & I come up with recipes for her a lot)
@@jennytmaher Pumpkin is also great in stews and soups. Just cut into chunks just a bit larger than you would a white potato and toss into the pot along with everything else.
@@jennytmaher 👍 Almost any veg roasted is delicious (I think root veg. in particular) It's strange, even though I know they're from the same family, when I think pumpkin, I think pie; when I think squash, I think of it only in savoury form (salt & 'lotsa butter!) When I think sweet potato, I think, 'yuck'. lol.
I've watched a few Aussie cooking shows (Master Chef) and I believe you refer to all squash as 'pumpkin' (if I'm not mistaken)
...The idea of the American sw. potato/yam with marshmallow dish makes me ill.
How fun! Now I am inspired to plant rhubarb in my garden.
Throw some blueberries in there & I'd be excited. I'll keep this recipe in mind for when I try making pies. Thanks, Glen & Jules.
Also my mom’s favorite pie was strawberry/ rhubarb, I think it was 50/50
Very yummy!
I was raised in upstate New York near the Canadian border and my grams always called it pie plant and grew bunches of it. Best thing ever, a knife and a salt shaker and raiding the rhubarb early 😇
From Wisconsin, and my Irish grandma always called it pie plant.
"I still have some rhubarb left over."
That's the story of life for anyone who has rhubarb plants.
Send some to me:P
That’s a problem I’d like to have. :)
First, let me say how much I appreciate all the time and attention you give to your recipes. Second, growing up in Washington state, USA I would NEVER EVER EVER eat rhubarb. I think it’s the most vile plant every cultivated. In fact, my stomach is flip flopping now just thinking about it. Keep on cooking. Luv your stuff!❤️🙌🏻🥰🤗☀️😊
In the Little House on the Prarie books, a married Laura made a pie plant pie. It is an old name for rhubarb. I'm in Mi.
I love Glen---says he is not going to make a lattice and then he does! Cool!
I grew up in central Wisconsin, all of my old Norwegian relatives called rhubarb "pie plant". They cooked rhubarb in every way because it was the first thing out of the ground in the spring.
Thank you Glen and Jules, I'm a big fan of Oshawa and now you're another reason why. ✋🥧
I’m from the Midwest region of the US, and we call it rhubarb. This is the first time I have heard it called pie plant. Thanks for all the great videos. I recently discovered your channel and am hooked! Special note for Jules today-your dress is super cute!!
My mouth is watering.....LOVE rhubarb pie.
I remember my grandmother calling it pie plant, that was back in the early 70's in rural Nova Scotia.
I grew up in southwest Missouri in the 1930s. Rhubarb was always called pie plant then and in that place. I can't remember when I first heard it called rhubarb. This is a very good recipe, similar to the one I make. I never liked pie plant pies as a child, because it was just rhubarb and sugar, and I hadn't learned to appreciate the distinctive rhubarb flavor. This recipe, with the egg, has a somewhat custardy quality, and is delicious.
We lived in Windsor for a few years, and had rhubarb growing in our yard, so we just ate it as a snack while we played. Never had rhubarb pie because my mom didn't like to cook - food was basic and unimaginative but always there. I haven't had rhubarb since, but I think it might do well as a refrigerator sweet pickle... so I may try it!
That moment @6:58 where Jules goes for a second bite and Glen starts talking made me smile. Thanks for another great content video!
I've never heard the term "pie-plant" but it does make sense. Rhubarb makes a great pie and pie would be my main reason for growing it.
I'm from Pennsylvania and have an aunt who grew "pie plant" in her yard. It was only years later I learned it was called rhubarb. She made a pie filling very similar except instead of flour she used cornstarch, added some lemon juice and raisins. Sometimes in the summer, she would add some strawberries as well.
Thanks so much for your videos on depression era cooking. My folks grew up in the country near Jackson Mich. in those days and I remember a number of the dishes you make. I really have been enjoying your videos as they bring back great memories! Yes, the older ladies in church and my grandparents called it pie plant. They were born 1890-1900's. I remember asking why pie plant, and was told that, as opposed to other fruits, pie plant was only good in a pie. But my mom just boiled it with a little sugar into a sauce for ice-cream or over Graham crackers. We liked it more tart.
My dad talked about his mom's Potato Rolls being a favorite and she making them for every occasion. A picture shows them large & tall, 3 puffy sections like a shamrock, like they maybe were made in a tall cupcake mold but bigger. I assume they are yeast rolls. Have you seen or made something like that?
Thank you again for all your wonderful work making your videos! They have been a real joy the past few months. Hope you have a nice restful relaxation and get recharged in due time! Thanks, Jeff
Love, love, love rhubarb
I have never seen rhubarb used when it is so green though, we always waited for it to be that rich ruby colour all along the stalks before stewing it here in Australia.
Rhubarb is delicious. These look so good and cute
Us 'older folks' are use to it being called pie plant but I don't think many people call it that anymore, except maybe the Amish here in Wisconsin. What ever you call it it's delicious. Thanks for the recipe.
My grandma always called rhubarb "pie plant." So I was super excited to see the name of this video! She was born about 1898 in northwest Ohio, and lived there all her life. I had no idea anybody else ever used, or had even heard of, that name. I'm thrilled to see the term used by someone else!
I am in my 50's and have lived in Pennsylvania all my life. I have lived in Western PA (Near Pittsburgh and Eastern PA near Philadelphia) I nor any one I knew ever called Rhubarb "Pie Plant". So maybe it was something that family specifically used. Great recipe BTW, rhubarb is a favorite of mine and always keeping an eye out for new ideas. 👍🥧
Love you guys, i feel like I have met you before. Yummy pie!!
I'm a Hoosier...(from Indiana) and my grandmother's called it pie plant. Also common in KY.
Of course, I'm 85 yrs. old and language has changed a lot.
I'm from Pa....I've never heard it called pie plant but it's a cool name.... My e and my grandma use to make strawberry rhubarb jelly 😋
I’ve never heard the term pie plant, and I love old books/historical novels. Well, that’s also why I’m here watching someone create old recipes. Oregon
LOVE those rhubarb pies and tarts. Exceptionally good with some fresh strawberries. Older rhubarb can have fibrous skin...so it was commonly peeled in our home.
Hi Glen, here in the UK a tart is a pastry case with out a top crust, a pie has a crust top and bottom, a lattice top can be a pie or tart - then we head into filling classification 😃
The only time I've ever heard rhubarb referred to as "pie plant" is in North America. My family come from the rhubarb triangle in Yorkshire (yes it's a real place) always called it rhubarb there.
Wow, I am envious of all that rhubarb. What with all the shutdowns I wasn't able to get to the place where I usually buy my rhubarb, so I missed pie plant season this year.
Hearing it called "pie plant" tells me I have to figure out how to grow my own.
We peel the rhubarb harvested from my parents garden, it is a very old plant, grows huge and is very very tart that gets a bit more stringy. The rhubarb from my grandmas place is called Strawberry rhubarb and is small and finer, not as sour and milder, we dont need to peel it. Personally i think peeling is a preference.
My sister and i found an awesome fish curry recipe that used rhubarb in it, it was amazing. And it opened up my mind about more than just Pie and desert recipes with rhubarb.
Absolutely yes, I grew up with "pie plant in central US, Iowa to be exact. It has been many years since I heard anyone call it that. And now I live where rhubarb can not grow.
My family is from the eastern Pennsylvania upstate coal regions. I’ve never heard the term Pie Plant before. I haven’t seen it in my Nana’s cookbook either. My family used to make Strawberry Rhubarb pies when I was growing up. I have to say, I have never been interested in rhubarb. But now I am tempted to try it.
Rhubarb!! My favorite.👍
I'm Scots and have lived in the Highlands and just outside Glasgow and never heard it referred to as such. We used to eat it as bairns with a poke(wee paper bag) of sugar to dip into.
Yum. Pie plant pie is the best.
Wholesome ❤️🤍
We love rhubarb, though I’ve never heard of it being called pie-plant! And I wholly agree with Jules: No one likes a woosie pie 🤣
yes, and apples of paradise is another old name for tomato... in the 1920s till the late 1960s you could find pie dishes l think are lightly larger than the ones you used... and they actually came from the UK as individual pies were served there for dinner, we have some, but they are made from aluminium...
My grandma always called it pie plant. She lived in northern Michigan👌😄
My dad always has a strawberry rhubarb pie for his birthday, instead of a cake. Rhubarb is sooo good in pies and pastries.
Hi Glen From Ottawa my name is Aim's long time watcher. I love your French sort of translation I'm born French and theirs expression that are really hard to explain Like tarte. Anyways let's get to the point I had a neighbour from pensalvania who moved to Ottawa in 1946 as a young woman that I would later call her Miss mentzel she purchased house where I eventually would move in next to her 40 years later. When I got to know her she was in her late 60 and early 70 nices woman ever, she would teach me allot in English language that and my Irish step mother anyways, it made me have no accent in fresh or English. Also She would make some aswome treats and get a young boy out of trouble to walk her dog. anyway as she was originally from pensalvania she had different names for many things. Rhubarb pie was one of them another that had me confused was called Dutch pie that I eventually figured out to be corn pie. Another pie that had me a bit confused about was raising pie but it was actually red curran pie. But not sure if it's a pensalvania thing or German thing. Like she explained to me as a young boy that pensalvania had allot of German settlers. That actually made many foods have different names. Sorry for the long story but hope it makes you intrigued to find more different names.
Wow! So what is corn pie? Also red currant pie would be a good one to try.
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So Glen when will you be writing your "Second-Great-Depression" Cook Book?...
Or The Great Darkening Cookbook
This just gave me a flashback to when my grandma would make rhubarb pie - I seem to remember her peeling the rhubarb! Hadn't thought about that in years.
Thanks for sharing Glen!
I lived in Kansas and did know of it being called pie plant. Apparently settlers from back east planted it immediately wherever they homesteaded because it would yield a pie making "fruit" long before any fruit trees they planted would. Makes sense to me. Also have roots in New England and Alabama where I've only heard it called rhubarb. Love it best straight up, no strawberries!
Never heard of pie plant....but my Dad's favorite pie was rhubarb. From western PA.
I've never heard it called pie plant. But I used to spend many summer days munching on raw rhubarb as a child. Strawberry rhubarb pie is my favorite.
I have heard of pie plant. It is used interchangeably with rhubarb. I am from Illinois.
From Pennsylvania but never heard that term before. Might be a relic of previous times...
Pie plant very popular in eastern pa. It’s Pennsylvania Dutch
I grew up in NY State about 50 minutes from Ottawa and my family called it rhubarb, but others in the area called it pie plant, so I knew both.
My family has always called it rhubarb and a tradition in our home. Down through the generations, the first batch was/is a sauce of just rhubarb and sugar (no water). It's kept in the fridge and served over ice cream or plain white cake. (sometimes in a bowl on its own) Never lasts very long at our house
Those look so yummy!
i grew up in Missouri in the 1970s. I remember grandparents in their late sixties, and great grandparents in their late eighties calling it pie plant. No one younger ever called it that, but then those younger rarely ate it.
In rural Ohio (next door to PA), and I've never heard of pie-plant, but I instantly assumed what it was. Maybe somewhere deep in the recesses of my mind we've called it that around here, but I had forgotten about it.
I read about pie plant in one of the Little House on the Prairie books - the lesser-known The First Four Years. I'm not sure when I discovered that pie plant = rhubarb, though. (I'm from Manitoba.)
Looks delicious 😋
I'm a sucker for my Mums rhubarb custard pie!
Hi Glen - Over 25 years ago I was in New York's Catskill Mountains and stopped for lunch at a small cafe that I remembered from my childhood some 35 years earlier. The homemade desserts listed on the chalkboard were strawberry-rhubarb jello and pie. They were out of the jello so I ordered the pie, which was the best pie I have had in my 73 years, but I neither saw nor tasted strawberry in it. I mentioned this to the waitress who, as it turned out, was also the owner and cook. She said the board had an error. This was orange rhubarb pie. She started to tell me how to make it but was called to the phone and I never got the details. I thought about that pie for several years, finally locating an address and writing to ask for the recipe. Months later I received a reply from the woman's nephew. The cafe had closed when the woman retired, and she had passed on. He kindly sent me her handwritten recipe card, but I could see it was not the same pie.It was a two crust pie with just some orange peel. What I had was streusel-topped, with a dairy component like.in Dutch apple pie. I didn't see or taste fresh orange peel. I suspect the sweetener was orange marmalade and that there was some chopped fresh orange or canned mandarin oranges. Since you love rhubarb, you might consider making such a pie. I tried with just rhubarb and chopped fresh oranges, thickened with tapioca, in a two crust pie, which was disappointing. It was a few more years before Ithought about marmalade, and by then was working way too many hours for baking. Now that I am retired, I am to disabled to cook and bake as much as I once did.
Just watched the rhubarb tart episode.
I used to hear it called pie plant by folks of my grandparents generation but not so much anymore. They would also sometimes call it by its German name, piestengel, which I think meant "pie stalk" or "pie stem".
Looks delicious🤤 Thanks Glenn👍
That filling is nearly identical to the filling for the rhubarb squares I make. They have a shortbread base, instead of pie crust. They are absolutely fantastic!
MN native here- Yes, some people in this region do refer to rhubarb as “pie plant”. Rhubarb pie is a treat for my TX in-laws when they visit, as they cannot grow it where they live.
I grew up in South Dakota. My grandmother called it pie plant and she grew u[p in Minnesota.I have not heard it use for a long time.
My grandma born in 1912 always called it pieplant. She was in upstate NY very close to the PA border.
Born and raised and currently still in Pennsylvania and never heard of pie plant.
Man, this channel is SO underrated. So many great videos and recipes and only 350k subs?? What is going on?
Looks delicious! Greetings from Newfoundland!
Lovely recipe!! I´ve always wanted to try Rhubarb but I can´t find it anywhere in my area....hopefully one day I´ll....
Huzzah for pie plant! HUZZAH!!! 🍽
The First Four Years - Laura Ingalls Wilder she makes pie using “pie plant” and forgets to add the sugar.
Vinyltag yes that’s right! Now I know what she was talking about lol
Grew up in Athens, PA never heard of pie plant but surely ate a lot of rhubarb pie, rhubarb crisp and rhubarb sauce
I've never heard pie-plant, but I immediately thought rhubarb when I read it! From NC here.
In Laura Ingalls "The First Four Years" she wrote about making a pie-plant pie (and forgot the sugar). She was in Missouri at the time, but originally from Wisconsin - perhaps pie-plant is an American mid-West thing?
It IS the perfect plant for pie making imo so, makes sense 🤷♀️🤣
Have grown up in California since the 60's and I have never heard of Pie Plant. We always have just made Rhubarb pie.
Use the excess rhubarb in a rhubarb-blueberry galette. So yummy. Always add some fresh lemon juice or zest to anything rhubarb, too.