“There was pie plant in the garden; she must make a couple of pies,” Laura Ingalls Wilder reminisces in The First Four Years. In her first foray into working with the sour celerylike stalk that is today known as rhubarb, the novice baker forgets to add sugar to her recipe, leading one congenial taster to remark that he prefers sweetening his own dessert. Guests are certain to applaud Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie, perfectly enhanced with granulated sugar in its ruby-red filling and brown sugar in the old-fashioned crumble.
For more delights, join the Victoria Classics Book Club in revisiting Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House series, including the volume Little House on the Prairie.
