shoofly pie

Name: SHOOFLY PIE
Ingredients: 1 - recipe plain pastry; 1 1/2 cup(s) sifted flour; 1 cup(s) brown sugar, firmly packed; 1/8 teaspoon(s) salt; 1/4 cup(s) shortening; 1/2 teaspoon(s) baking soda; 1/2 cup(s) hot water; 1/2 cup(s) molasses

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Deborah Carter-McGee-Plowman

Burleson, TX

Updated on Sep 18, 2010

This is another recipe I found in a old cookbook. I just love the name of this pie, makes me wonder if it got it name by ladies trying to keep flys off food back in the old days. I can just see some lady with her fan in hand swing it over a pie and telling flies to shoo.

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Ingredients

1 - recipe plain pastry
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortening
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup hot water
1/2 cup molasses

How To Make shoofly pie

Step 1

Line 2 piepans with pastry.

Step 2

Make crumbs by combining flour, sugar, salt and shortening.
Step 3

Disslove soda in hot water and combine with molasses.
Step 4

Add 3/4 of crumbs, pour into pastry-lined pans and top with remaining crumbs,
Step 5

Bake in very hot oven (450 degrees) 10 minutes.
Step 6

Then reduce temperature to moderate (350 degrees) and bake 20 to 30 minutes longer or until firm. Makes 2 (9 inch) pies.
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