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Home / Pie Fillings / Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Filling

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Filling

Filed Under: Pie Fillings, Seasonal Summer Tagged With: Rhubarb

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This delicious home-canned pie filling makes throwing together a homemade pie the work of minutes.

Each jar makes 1 pie. Width of the pie is your choice: 20 or 23 cm (8 or 9 inch).

This is a lab-tested recipe from the Bernardin Guide to Home Preserving.

We also have listed recipes for Strawberry Pie Filling and Rhubarb Pie Filling on their own.

Contents hide
  • 1 The recipe
  • 2 Rhubarb Strawberry Pie Filling
    • 2.1 Ingredients
    • 2.2 Instructions
    • 2.3 Nutrition
  • 3 Reference information
  • 4 Recipe notes
  • 5 Directions for use
  • 6 Recipe Source
  • 7 Nutrition information
    • 7.1 Regular Version
    • 7.2 Sugar-free Version

The recipe

Jar size choices: Half-litre (1 US pint / 500 ml / 16 oz)

Processing method: Either water-bath or steam canning

Yield: 5 x half-litre (US pint) jars

Headspace: 3 cm (1 inch)

Processing time: 15 minutes

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Rhubarb Strawberry Pie Filling

Yield: 5 x half-litre (US pint) jars
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Pie Filling, Rhubarb
Prep Time 45 minutes minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes minutes
Total Time 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes
Servings 5 x half-litre (US pint) jars
Calories 514kcal
Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

  • 750 g rhubarb (1 ¾ lbs. That's about 7 cups when chopped into 1 inch / 2.5 cm pieces)
  • 3 apples (large. peeled, cored and chopped. Weight of about 750 g / 1.5 lb before being prepared)
  • 400 g sugar (white. 2 cups / ¾ lb) OR 2 cups Splenda OR 2 teaspoons liquid stevia
  • 1 tablespoon orange zest
  • 4 tablespoons orange juice (¼ cup / 2 oz)
  • 500 g strawberries (about 1 US quart / 4 cups.) Measured after being washed and hulled
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Put everything from the rhubarb down to the orange juice in a large pot. Cover and bring to a boil; then remove the cover and reduce to a gentle simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, until the rhubarb pieces are soft. Stir frequently and deeply, to avoid scorching.
  • Stir in prepared strawberries, bring back to the boil, then turn heat off.
  • (Optional)If you are using liquid stevia, you can add a bit more if desired, to taste. But don't add sugar at this point, it won't dissolve.
  • Pack hot into half-litre (US pint) jars.
  • Leave 3 cm (1 inch) headspace.
  • Debubble, adjust headspace.
  • Wipe jar rims.
  • Put lids on.
  • Process in a water bath or steam canner.
  • Process jars for 15 minutes; increase time as needed for your altitude.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 514kcal | Carbohydrates: 134.4g | Protein: 2.5g | Fat: 0.9g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 8mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 121.4g

Reference information

How to water bath process.

How to steam can.

When water-bath canning or steam canning, you must adjust the processing time for your altitude.

For stevia, Better Stevia liquid stevia was the stevia used.

More information about Sugar and Salt-Free Canning in general.

What is the shelf life of home canned goods?

Recipe notes

  • One medium-sized orange will supply you with the zest and juice you need. If you don’t have an orange on hand, you could use zest from a lemon or omit. And in place of orange juice, you could use a similarly acidic fruit juice (pH of 4.6 and below) such as apple juice or cranberry juice. Lemon juice would also be fine acidity-wise, but might be too tart unless you add more sweetener to balance it out.
  • When you first turn the mixture on to boil, you might wonder about the lack of liquid but a lot of liquid will appear once the heat starts to hit the mixture.
  • A heat diffuser between the burner and the pot can be ideal, to prevent sticking and scorching at the bottom. If you use one, allow the mixture to simmer a bit longer, 20 to 25 minutes.
  • Do not add any thickening agent, as it could interfere with safe and thorough heat penetration of the jar during processing. But, you will not even feel the desire to: it thickens up a lot all on its own.
  • You can use smaller jars, and process for the same 15 minutes, but there are no tested times given for larger size jars.
  • You can use the food processor to finely chop the apples (just peel and core first). Do one apple at a time.
  • Use whatever apples you have to hand. Pieces of apples such as Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, etc, will maintain their shape a bit better, if that’s something you want. Instead of the 3 large apples, you could use a ½ litre (1 US pint) jar of home-canned apple slices,  juice and all. Just chop them up a bit further after opening the jar before adding to mixture.
  • You can use frozen strawberries and rhubarb. If so, thaw just until the fruit pieces can come apart to be measured, then thawing, and then after thawing, include into the pot any juice that comes off.

Directions for use

Make a bottom and top pie crust.

Line pie tin with bottom crust.

Fill with one jar of this pie filling.

Cover with a top crust, poke some fork holes through it. (Optional: turn that into a classic lattice top crust.)

Optional: brush top crust and crust edges with a bit of milk to aid browning.

Bake for about 25 minutes at 175 C (350 F) or until crust is golden brown. There’s no need to worry about needing to cook the filling longer as it is already cooked.

Tip: Traditional pie crust can be quite high cal. If you want to keep the entire desert low cal, try making tarts with the shells made from 3 or 4 layers of thawed-from-frozen filo pastry crust.

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Recipe Source

Bernardin Guide to Home Preserving. Toronto, Canada: Bernardin Ltd. 2013. Page 40.

Note: We have not been able to find anywhere a tested processing time for larger 1 litre (1 US quart / 32 oz) jars for this recipe.

Nutrition information

How calories this will end up being per actual serving will depend on how many slices of pie you get out of your pie, or how many tarts you make, and what kind of crust you use. Nutrition information is therefore per jar.

Regular Version

Per 1 jar (½ litre / 1 US pint / 2 cups / 16 fluid oz)

  • 514 calories, 8 mg sodium

strawberry rhubarb pie filling nutrition regular

Sugar-free Version

Imagine how low cal a slice of this pie is going to be, even with a crust…

Per 1 jar (½ litre / 1 US pint / 2 cups / 16 fluid oz)

  • 139 calories, 8 mg sodium
  • Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 1 jar: 4 points

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* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.

* Better Stevia ® is a registered trademark of the NOW Foods Company.

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Tagged With: Rhubarb

Filed Under: Pie Fillings, Seasonal Summer Tagged With: Rhubarb

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Jessica

    June 26, 2021 at 5:28 pm

    Hi there! I noticed that this pie filling recipe doesn’t have any Clear Jel in it. Is it still quite thick when used? Thank you!

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      July 02, 2021 at 2:17 am

      The apples seem to help thicken it.

      Reply
  2. Brittny Hansen

    September 15, 2020 at 2:58 pm

    Did you blend your ingredients at some point? You ended up with a nice smooth looking result and mine is all chunky.

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 21, 2020 at 7:03 pm

      It probably just depends on the varieties of strawberries and rhubarb used, etc. Some people might even prefer the chunkier texture you got !

      Reply
  3. Nina

    June 07, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    Just noticed your list of ingredients is not in the order your instructions give. You might want to adjust that.

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      June 15, 2020 at 11:21 pm

      Good catch, thank you! Fixed!

      Reply
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