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- Pennsylvania Dutch Shoo-fly Pie
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- Pastry for a one-crust, 9" pie.
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- Bottom part: Top part:
- 1/2 cup molasses 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup boiling water 3/4 cup butter or lard
- Pinch of salt 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
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- Dissolve the soda in the molasses and stir until it foams. Add the boiling
- water and salt.
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- Mix the flour, butter, sugar and cinnamon into crumbs.
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- Pour 1/3 of the liquid into the unbaked crust. Sprinkle 1/3 of the crumbs
- over the liquid. Continue with alternating layers, putting the final 1/3
- of the crumbs on top.
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- Bake in a 375degF oven for about 1/2 an hour until the crumbs and crust are
- golden.
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- Shoo-fly Pie with a Wet Bottom and a Creamy Top
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- Pastry for a deep, one-crust, 9" pie. Whipped cream for `slathering'.
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- Bottom part: Top part:
- 3/4 cup boiling water 1 1/2 cups sifted flour
- 1 cup dark molasses 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon soda 3/4 cup shortening
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- Pour boiling water over the soda in a bowl and stir in the molasses. Pour
- into the pie shell.
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- Mix the top part ingredients into crumbs and sprinkle over the molasses
- mixture.
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- Bake in a 350degF oven for 30 to 40 minutes.
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- Let it cool and slather it with whipped cream.
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- Ontario Candy Pie
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- [This one is Staebler's mother's adaptation of shoo-fly pie.]
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- Pastry for a one-crust, 9" pie
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- Bottom part: Top part:
- 1 1/2 cups maple syrup 1 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon soda 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
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- Dissolve soda in the maple syrup and pour the mixture into the pie shell.
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- Mix the top part into crumbs and spread over the top of the pie.
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- Bake in a 350degF oven for about half an hour --- but watch it: this
- bubbling, sticky, luscious thing (sic!) has a tendency to run over and make
- a mess of the oven.
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