Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — To Save Juice of Rhubarb Pies. [ARTICLE]

To Save Juice of Rhubarb Pies.

One of the minor advantages women in the suburbs enjoy at this season is the opportunity to go out in their gardens and cut fresh rhubarb. But how provoking it is to a housekeeper when baking rhubarb pies, or any fruit pies, to have the juice overflow, and what a burnt, sticky mess it makes on the bottom of the oven! We should like to have all that juice in the pie, and it may be kept in by taking a short piece of> uncooked macaroni and inserting it in the pie, like a little chimney stack. Some people make paper funnels to answer the same purpose, but I think the macaroni is better. Of course, it should be removed after the pie is baked, as its presence is purely useful, not ornamental.