Pie Recipe #22 - Raspberry-Rhubarb Slab Pie

If you don't own a pie plate, this is the recipe for you. Made in a jelly-roll pan and served in "slabs" rather than slices explains the title of this recipe. I thought of my father as I was preparing this because of his love of raspberries-this one's for you, Dad! Ingredients: 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup butter, 3/4 cup plus 1-2 tablespoons milk, 1 egg yolk, 2 cups granulated sugar, 1/3 cup cornstarch, 5 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed and drained, 3 cups sliced fresh or frozen rhubarb, thawed and drained. Icing: 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 5-6 tablespoons milk. Instructions: In a large bowl, combine flour and salt; cut in butter with pastry blender until crumbly. Whisk 3/4 cup milk with the egg yolk in small bowl; gradually add to flour mixture, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Add additional milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, if necessary. Divide dough in half so that one portion is slightly larger than the other; wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Roll out larger portion of dough between two large sheets of lightly floured waxed paper into an 18 x 13 inch rectangle. Transfer to an ungreased 15 x 10 x 1 inch baking pan. Press onto the bottom and up the sides of pan; trim pastry to 1/2 inch above edges of pan. In a large bowl, combine sugar and cornstarch. Add raspberries and rhubarb; toss together to coat. Spoon into pastry. Roll out remaining dough; place over filling. Fold bottom pastry over edge of top pastry; seal with the tines of a fork. Prick top several times with a fork. Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 45-55 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack. For icing, combine confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk to achieve a drizzling consistency; drizzle over pie in design of choice. Cut pie into squares and serve. Makes about 2 dozen squares. Presented by Jeanne Ambrose, Milwaukee, WI, in Taste of Home magazine, Reiman Media Group, LLC, Greendale, WI, April/May 2012, pg. 40. "As easy as pie!"