Amish Shoo-fly Pie
Ingredients
1 and 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour | ||
1/2 cup sugar | ||
1/8 tsp salt | ||
1/2 tsp cinnamon | ||
1/4 tsp ginger | ||
1/4 tsp nutmeg | ||
powdered sugar for sprinling | ||
1/4 cup unsalted butter | ||
1/2 tsp baking soda | ||
1/2 cup unsulphured molasses | ||
3/4 cup boiling water | ||
1 unbaked 9 inch pastry shell |
This is a classic Amish recipe that includes sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, butter and molasses. It is called Shoo-fly mainly because when the Amish cooks set this pie out on the window ledge to cool they would have to shoo the fly’s away.
- Mix together the four, sugar, salt and spices.
- Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Mix together baking soda and molasses, and immediately stir in boiling water.
- Stir in 1 and 1/3 cups of the crumb mixture.
- Turn into pastry shell.
- Sprinkle remaining 2/3 cup of the crumb mixture over top.
- Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until crust is lightly browned.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Cool and serve.
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