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Here in Michigan it is now rhubarb season, so we are going to make a rhubarb dessert that is not rhubarb meringue pie!

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Here we have “Rhubarb Custard Dessert”

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From Tom's Mom's Recipe Box

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 3 cups cleaned and diced rhubarb
Topping:
 1 cup flour
 ½ cup butter
 ½ cup sugar
Custard
 1 egg
 ½ cup sugar
 3 tbsp flour

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Mix custard ingredients in bowl. Grease bottom of an 8"x8" square pan (or pie plate). Pour in custard ingredients and layer rhubarb on top. Cut butter into flour and sugar for topping. Sprinkle on top of rhubarb. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

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Ingredients

 3 cups cleaned and diced rhubarb
Topping:
 1 cup flour
 ½ cup butter
 ½ cup sugar
Custard
 1 egg
 ½ cup sugar
 3 tbsp flour

Directions

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Mix custard ingredients in bowl. Grease bottom of an 8"x8" square pan (or pie plate). Pour in custard ingredients and layer rhubarb on top. Cut butter into flour and sugar for topping. Sprinkle on top of rhubarb. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Rhubarb Custard Dessert

This recipe is a little different from our normal recipes.  It’s a Clark family recipe with an uncertain lineage.  The recipe card above was copied from a much older, original card.  According to “Ma” Clark, the original card was yellowed.  It appears to have a streusel topping, but the sugar in the topping was added by Tom’s mom.  I thought about trying it the original way, but I have a deep love for streusel topping, so I decided to keep the added sugar.

So today we are cutting right to the tasting… I think someone was a little too impatient for rhubarb season to begin.

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“So how is it?”

“Rhubarb… Custard… streusel topping…”

“So it’s good?”

“I don’t know.  I should eat another piece just to be sure.”

The Verdict: Good

From The Tasting Notes –

If you like desserts with a streusel or “crisp” topping, then you’ll like this one.  It was slightly sweet but with a pleasant tang.  The topping was very heavy.  The custard was moist but not runny; it did a good job of absorbing all the “rhubarb juice.”  Overall it was good and something that we will make again.

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