Make Your Own Robert Rauschenberg with the Artist’s Rediscovered Pie Recipe

Rediscovered copies of a simple yet coveted key lime pie recipe, a signature dessert of Robert Rauschenberg, was found in the late pop artist’s archive which includes everything from a “clipped-out New York Times review of a sushi place” to a school bus.

Per T Magazine:

When I was getting ready to pack up, we made a discovery: in a folder, a cache of color copies with Rauschenberg’s name and the Captiva address in green at the top, and the title, all in bold, “RR Key Lime Pie Recipe.” He got so many requests, it seems, that he kept a stack of these sheets on hand to give out to his guests. This was a characteristic gesture; so too was his claim there was nothing to it — just some sweetened condensed milk, lime juice and egg yolks, all poured into a store-bought crust. More than anything, Rauschenberg taught us that whatever we happened to have already would more than do; the genius was in the combination. Later, when I received a scanned copy of the recipe from Buehler, it struck me that if I followed his instructions down to the letter, even freezing the extra lime juice in ice-cube trays as he instructed, I’d be making a Rauschenberg myself.

You don’t need to raid his high security archives to make your own edible Rauschenberg, however. You can find the recipe buried in the article’s slideshow here.

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