Pennsylvania Shoo Fly Cake Food

PENNSYLVANIA SHOO FLY CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13x9 inch baking pan.
• Using a large bowl, stir the flour,brown sugar,and salt together. Add the butter. Work the butter into the mixture until you have crumbs using a pastry blender or rubbing the mixture together with your fingers. Take out 1 1/2 cups of crumbs, reserve for the topping.
• In a large bowl combine the boiling water,molasses and baking soda, mix well with a whisk. Make sure to use a large bowl, when the baking soda is added it foams up quiet a bit.
• Add 1/2 the liquid to the crumb mixture. Mix until moist and smooth. Add the remaining liquid and mix until just incorporated, the batter will be slightly runny.
• Pour the batter into your prepared pan, top with reserved crumbs. press crumbs into the batter lightly. Bake 45 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

SHOO-FLY CAKE

Steps:

• Mix all dry ingredients with margarine.
• Take 1 cup of mixture and reserve for topping and set aside.
• Dissolve baking soda in hot water.
• Add molasses, water and dissolved baking soda.
• Mix well.
• Pour into a greased 9x13 pan.
• Sprinkle with reserved topping mixture.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SHOO-FLY CAKE

Steps:

• Mix together (like a crumbly pie crust) flour, shortening, sugars in a large bowl, reserving 1/2 cup of the crumbs for top of cake.
• In another bowl, mix: molasses, baking soda and hot water.
• Stir until mixed and some of the foam disappears.
• Add to the crumb mixture and stir until blended.
• Put in a 9 X 13 inch loaf pan that has been greased and floured.
• Put the 1/2 cup crumb mixture on top and bake for 1 hour at 350 deg.

GOOD 'N PLENTY PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SHOO-FLY PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Liquid:.
• Dissolve baking soda in water.
• Stir in molasses and one beaten egg (take care not to scramble the egg, tempering it is advised.).
• Crumbs:.
• Mix flour, shortening, brown sugar, salt and cinnamon.
• Form the mixture into crumbs.
• Pour the liquid mixture in an unbaked pie shell, then add the crumbs to the top and bake for 30 minutes.

SHOO-FLY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 9X13 pan.
• Mix flour, sugar and butter together by rubbing between your fingers to make crumbs.
• Take one cup of crumb mixture and put aside to use for the topping.
• Add the baking soda to the molasses,stir.
• Pour molasses mixture into crumb mixture and then add the boiling water and stir with a large spoon.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Top with the 1 cup of crumbs you saved.
• Bake 30-40 or until a toothpick comes out clean.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SHOOFLY PIE

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, stir together the flour and sugar.
• Cut in butter til crumbly. (Use a pastry blender, knives, forks or your fingers.) I just add it cut up, then use my fingers, pinching and tossing to keep coated.
• In seperate bowl, add molasses, soda and cinnamon, and slowly pour in boiling water. Beat til mixture is foamy.
• Stir half of the crumb mixture into the molasses mixture.
• Pour into pie shell.
• Sprinkle top with remaining crumb mixture.
• Bake in 350 oven 30-40 minutes til pie is set/firm, bubbly and lightly browned.
• Cool til warm, and serve topped with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream if desired.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SHOO FLY PIE

Steps:

• Line 9-inch pie plate with pastry.
• Mix molasses and egg yolk.
• Dissolve soda in boiling water and add to egg and molasses.
• Set aside.
• Stir dry ingredients together, mixing well.
• Cut in shortening until mixture looks like coarse crumbs.
• Pour molasses into pie shell.
• Sprinkle crumbs evenly over top.
• Do not stir.
• Bake at 450 degrees F. 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees F. and bake 20 minutes longer.
• Cool and serve.