For Christmas dinner, I have decided to make a Pennsylvania Dutch specialty, Shoo-Fly Pie. It's a molasses pie with a crumb bottom and top in a regular piecrust, and is really easy. Working loosely with this recipe, here's the delicious test pie I baked last night. It's a firm pie and not as sweet as you might think. I wouldn't change a thing.
Shoo-Fly Pie
Best served room temperature with vanilla ice cream or a little whipped cream.
1 deepdish piecrust for 8" or 9" pie.
Filling:
1 cup unsulphured molasses or Pennsylvania Dutch table syrup*
3/4 cup hot water
1 tsp baking soda
2 large eggs, beaten
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/3 tsp ground cloves
Crumb Topping:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 tblsp unsalted butter, slightly softened, cut into small pieces
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Bake the pie crust for about 5-8 minutes.
3. Filling: In mixing bowl with whisk, combine molasses and water. Add baking soda, eggs, spices.
4. Topping: with a pastry blender attachment on mixer or by hand, combine flour, brown sugar and butter until consistency of lumpy crumbs.
5. Place pie crust pan on a cookie sheet so pie doesn't spill in your oven while baking.
6. Place 1/2 cup of the topping in the bottom of the pie crust shell.
7. Pour filling in and then scatter on remaining topping.
8. Bake for 35 minutes. Filling should be mostly solid, but jiggle slightly in the center and the top is firm.
9. Allow to cool to room temperature before cutting. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
* e.g. Golden Barrel or King Syrup. These aren't readily available here in Los Angeles, so I used regular old molasses.
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7 comments:
Thanks for the recipe! I've heard of Shoo-Fly Pie but not tasted it! My godfather used to love it, when he interned in Boston. :O) Gotta give this one a try! Have a great Christmas with Evan. samm
That sounds absolutely delish!
Oh, Alison! You've made me homesick! My Pennsylvania Dutch grandmother didn't make shoo-fly pie, so we had to rely on the local restaurants for our molasses fix. 'Course, she did make chicken pot pie (which as a Pennsylvania native, you know doesn't include pie crust but those big, square noodles)and rivel soup. Now I'm homesick and hungry!!
Oh my gosh, thank you for posting this recipe! My father's family is from Penn., and one year after a school trip we were driving through Lancaster County and stopped at Good N Plenty; the shoofly pie was some of the best I ever had! I've been dying for some, however the shoo fly pie never made it over to my mother's German/Norwegian family that I spend the holidays with.
Of all the foods I miss from my Lancaster childhood, Shoo-Fly Pie is not one of them... Give me a whoopie pie any day! Glad your test worked out!
Having grown up in PA, I must admit I don't like Shoe Fly Pie at all, but I would love to spend a week at Reading Terminal Market. I was there this summer and it is still the same.
Don't worry about missing Wawa...I spend enough money there for the both of us.
Also, I didn't know you were a Philly girl! I am from Bethlehem...up in the Lehigh Valley.
Hope you all had a great Christmas!!
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