Shoo-fly Pie Recipe

Shoo-fly Pie

From recipediva 16 years ago

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35 minutes to make
Serves 8

I grew up in Philadelphia. Every so often my Grandparents and my parents would take me for that Sunday ride. We would often go to Lancaster. One of my favorite things besides the smorgasbords was bringing home a slice of SHOOFLY PIE and having it when we returned home at night with a cold glass of milk before I went to bed and off to dreamland. Read more This recipe I am sharing with you is a recipe that is the best of the best. I eventually grew up and moved there and my daughter was even born in Lancaster. So being in the Amish community so many recipes are given between the Amish and Mennonite communities amongst their own and you can have them shared with you. Then there are tons of cook books. Me loving shoofly pie I was on a journey. I thought I had the perfect recipe until I moved out of the area. I met a person whose grandma was from Lancaster he shared this recipe that is very unusual and the best of the lot from the best I thought I made and from the endless of others I ever tried and made. I hope you enjoy this. This is very un-traditional and a very wet bottom shoofly pie. See less

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Ingredients

Bowl 1: shopping list
MIX TO CRUMB: RESERVING 1 CUP OF THIS CRUMB shopping list
2 CUPS flour shopping list
1 CUP sugar shopping list
1/2 CUP shortening shopping list
BOWL 2; shopping list
MIX shopping list
1 CUP brown sugar shopping list
1/2 CUPBRER rabbit (GREEN LABEL) MOLLASSES shopping list
1 egg shopping list
BOWL 3: shopping list
DISSOLVE 1/2 TEASPOON baking soda INTO shopping list
2 CUPS hot coffee (YES COFFEE) shopping list

How to make it

ADD BOWL 3 TO BOWL 2 MIX TO LEFT OVER CRUMBS OF BOWL #1
PLACE CRUMBS ON TOP OF PIE AND GENTLY PUT PIE IN OVEN.
PLACE IN 2 UNBAKED 8" PIE SHELLS I USUALLY PLACE IN ONE BIG 10" PIE SHELL ( I LIKE MY PIES BIG)
WHEN YOU GET REALLY GOOD AT THIS. SOMETIMES I ADD LESS CRUMB MIX TO THE BATTER AND SAVE IT FOR THE TOP AND IT MAKES MORE GOO ON THE BOTTOM.
Bake 350 for 35 minutes

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Good4U 10 years ago
Reviewed in IMI by Pointsevenout
Shoo Fly Pie
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pointsevenout 15 years ago
I'm not liking it. Way too sweet for me. Now I have two pies.

Mother sure likes it though. Well, she has a lot of eating ahead of her. Maybe I can give one away to the neighbors.

Nothing wrong with the recipe. It's just me.
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pointsevenout 15 years ago
In the oven now.

I heard that it was used as a sacrificial pie for picnics. Placed on a table away from the other food to draw the flies to it and away from the table with the real food.
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chezglenn 16 years ago
My Mom gave me her recipe too, but sworn to secrecy. She wrote down all her old favourites to share with the family. How 'bout Funny Cake?
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invisiblechef 16 years ago
Great recipe :) Mine came from my mom and I was reluctant to even share it, but what's the harm? see how on the similar recipes how there are no other shoo fly pies? When I looked to do a search before I posted mine, only one came up and it didn't have coffee in it so I shared mine as it was quite different! I wonder why yours didn't show up? and why mine isn't showing up? LOL Oh well. We don't want Pink to get shooflied AGAIN!! do we. But that is what she gets for getting that song stuck in my head!! shoo fly don't bother me - egads.. for days now.! :)

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recipediva 16 years ago
I adjusted the recipe. Thank you for finding the error! lol (it is 1/2 cup)
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borinda 16 years ago
This sounds wonderful. Could you please clarify -- how much molasses? I have never used molasses and so I'm not familiar with this brand and don't know if you mean 1/2 bottle, 1/2 cup... you get the idea.

Thank you so much!
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pink 16 years ago
Holy Toledo...I have been Shooflied again! *smile* Haftahavit!
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