Raspberry-Rhubarb Slab Pie

 

By Jeanne Ambrose, Taste of Home

"Slab pie" is a pastry baked in a jelly-roll pan and cut in slabs like a bar cookie—or a pie bar, if you will. My grandfather was a professional baker and served pieces of slab pie to his customers back in the day. Here is my spin, featuring rhubarb and gorgeous red raspberries.

Total Time
Prep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 45 min. + cooling

Makes
2 dozen servings

Ingredients

• 3-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter
• 3/4 cup plus 1 to 2 tablespoons 2% milk
• 1 large egg yolk
• 2 cups 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

VANILLA ICING:

• 1-1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 5 to 6 teaspoons 2% milk

Directions

• In a large bowl, combine flour and salt; cut in butter until crumbly. Whisk 3/4 cup milk and egg yolk; 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 two portions so that one is slightly larger than the other; wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour or until easy to handle.
• Preheat oven to 375°. Roll out larger portion of dough between two large sheets of lightly floured waxed paper into an 18x13-in. rectangle. Transfer to an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Press onto the bottom and up sides of pan; trim pastry to edges of pan.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar and cornstarch. Add raspberries and rhubarb; toss to coat. Spoon into pastry.
• Roll out remaining dough; place over filling. Fold bottom pastry over edge of top pastry; seal with a fork. Prick top with a fork.
• Bake until golden brown, 45-55 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.
• For icing, combine confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk to achieve a drizzling consistency; drizzle over pie. Cut pie into squares. 

Test Kitchen Tips

This pie dough can be made ahead of time and frozen. Thaw overnight in the fridge.
Before refrigerating or freezing pie dough, shape it into two rectangles so it's easier to roll into larger rectangles later. 

Editor's Note

If using frozen rhubarb, measure rhubarb while still frozen, then thaw completely. Drain in a colander, but do not press liquid out.

Nutrition Facts

1 piece: 247 calories, 8g fat (5g saturated fat), 29mg cholesterol, 159mg sodium, 42g carbohydrate (25g sugars, 2g fiber), 3g protein.

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