Shoo Fly Pie (wet bottom)

Shoo Fly Pie (wet bottom) • this painting is sold

Shoofly pie (or shoo fly pie) is a molasses pie considered traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch (originally Pennsylvania 'Deutsch' or 'German').

Brown sugar, molasses, shortening, salt, and spices were all non-perishable ingredients that could survive the long ocean's crossing to America made by German immigrants. The pie's unusual name is said to be due to the fact that pies were traditionally set to cool on windowsills, and due to the sweet ingredients, the cook would constantly have to shoo the flies away.

The more common version of the recipe — sometimes referred to as "wet bottom" — consists of a layer of sweet, gooey molasses beneath a crumb topping sometimes compared to that of a coffee cake. In contrast, a "dry bottom" shoofly pie is more thoroughly mixed into a cake-like consistency.

The dessert has earned quite a reputation in the "Dutch Country" of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where its distinctive flavor and texture is quite alluring to tourists.

As of July 2006, "I break for Shoofly Pie" is the official bumper sticker of the state of Pennsylvania.

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