Rhubarb Pie from 1850
Rhubarb is full and lush in my garden, and the reenacting season is starting here in the North, so it's time to harvest some and bake a rhubarb pie! And my need for a pie ties in nicely with Historical Food Fortnightly Challenge #11: Picnic Foods I have fallen behind on the challenges, but with every intent to catch back up, I thought I would get a head start on this challenge. The Challenge Picnic Foods (May 20 - June 2) Some foods are just meant to be eaten in the outdoors! Concoct a dish that is documented for al fresco dining, or foods that might particularly lend themselves to eating at a picnic. Bonus points for putting it to the test! A pie might not seem like the logical thing to bring to a picnic, used as we are to paper plates, sandwiches, and disposable ease. But picnics in the antebellum period were often far more elaborate. "The Pic-Nic" by Thomas Cole, 1846, in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. My photograph of work in the museum ...