My Mom made the same Raisin Cream (custard) pie with chiffon! She baked homemade bread on Wednesdays with cinnamon-sugar left over bread strips as an eagerly awaited prize side product. I wonder if it is ethnical or just a Boomer thing-I am mostly of German descent with Swiss/Swedish and other Eastern Euro bits.
Red-hot Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie?
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My Mom made the same Raisin Cream (custard) pie with chiffon! She baked homemade bread on Wednesdays with cinnamon-sugar left over bread strips as an eagerly awaited prize side product. I wonder if it is ethnical or just a Boomer thing-I am mostly of German descent with Swiss/Swedish and other Eastern Euro bits.
Exactly, I couldn't find the mini-red hots so I had to settle for red hot lozenges. They are pretty much the same product and intend to crush them up.
I know i'm in the minority, but I can't stand that bright red, fake cinnamon stuff. Red hot candies, Big Red gum, even Fireball "whiskey"
I imagine that those are what Satan puts on your pillow in hell
I imagine that those are what Satan puts on your pillow in hell
One red dye gives me a headache, so I agree with you. The candy I bought is almost pink and perfect flavor so its what I am using.
I'm half Norwegian as both parents were half Norwegian. My grandma on my dad's side even came over on the boat as a young girl, so she was first generation in America. She spoke with a thick accent, despite living in the U.S. her whole adult life.
We owned our own restaurant at one time and my mother was the chief cook, so she knew how to cook. She made fresh pies daily at the restaurant.
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Big rhubarb fan, big pie fan, and big cinnamon fan. Very hopeful that a recipe shows up in this thread.
My wife is close to 100% Norwegian and her mom's cooking was a bit different than my mother. I miss my mom's pies and it sounds like your memories are pretty special to you too. A small chain of nice restaurants in Wisconsin called the Norske Nook specializes in pies: https://norskenook.com/
I'm a decent cook and have my own idea of how I would make the pie. So if you're interested I could post an original recipe.
Sounds good. I'll take a try too. My wife makes great crust but says no, "she's too busy." So its store bought.
I've talked to a pie maker and I am taking her suggestion start with a basic ingredients and experiement from there.
I’m fine with fireball, but I don’t care for the others you mentioned. If fireball was a drink, I wouldn’t drink it. But I’ll slug a shot or two.
One of my buddies, who grew up poor back in the days when poor meant poor... His favorite pie is sour cream raisin pie. I did try it and it was very good.
Though, I am not one of those "I think raisins are an abomination" guys. I like a cinnamon raisin bagel and even cinnamon raisin bread.
My mother made that, too. From posters here in pies is one of the few ways, they'd eat a raisin.
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My mom made that once, my dad loved it. Most dreadful thing I ever tasted. My mom realiazed later that the recipe she got from her friend, the friend forgot to write down sugar. It was so bad that no one was willing to let her try again.
That's an interesting twist. Regular strawberry rhubarb is my favorite. I might have to try this variant.
Raisin Cream pie was a favorite of my dad’s. He also really liked gooseberry pie. My great uncle used to say the way to ruin a pie is to cut it. Implying it is best to eat the whole thing. I come from a family of pie eaters. lol.
My favorite pie of my mom's was the raisin cream pie, but my favorite pie overall is a butterscotch pie they make in a restaurant where I live. Unfortunately, it's not a regular menu item.
