This year's big Easter treat was raspberry rhubarb pie. I always top rhubarb pie with a lattice crust. The Executive Chef is a fan of Arabic decorative art, and he started musing about pie lattice that imitated Arabic design. He did some Googling, and I decided I could work with this picture.
Lesson learned: next time I will refrigerate the cut lattice strips before weaving the pie top. My pastry was too soft to get the sharp corners I wanted. I also should have completely defrosted the rhubarb. Or used very small fruit pieces in the filling. The bumpy pie surface also made it difficult to shape the design properly. With a square pie plate and very thin lattice strips, I could try inserting a few more design elements.
I used the pie filling recipe from this link: http://www.marthastewart.com/356180/ritas-raspberry-rhubarb-lattice-pie. It was very tart and just fantastic. The inlay image comes from this website, http://www.catnaps.org/islamic/geometry.html
