[food] rhubarb meringue pie

There is, still, so much rhubarb. This is not the passion fruit and lemon meringue pie I'd been craving and I'm still not actually convinced I like rhubarb, but Adam's happy with it and I have rice pudding so it's all good.

(Obligatory pre-recipe food-blogger anecdote: my grandfather was Very Involved in community musical theatre; my father and uncle were -- often? -- Loitering Urchins, under instructions to provide general atmospheric background noise as of bustling conversation, which could be usefully approximated by muttering "rhubarb and custard" to each other on repeat. I'm not sure how much time they actually spent doing this and I'm pretty sure the story looms disproportionately large in my childhood memories, but nonetheless I have been periodically reminded of this over the past year or so as a result of working out that this traditional pairing is probably at least in part because all the calcium in the custard means that the oxalic acid in the rhubarb doesn't do The Thing to your teeth to nearly the same extent.)

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