shoo-fly? shoe-fly?
Ok, folks - tonight I’m making pecan pie, gumbo, remoulade (red and white!) and shoo-fly pie. I’m covered on the how for everything but the shoo-fly. Any advice? Favorite recipes? (And is it shoo-fly, or shoe-fly? Hmmmm? And is it cake or pie?)
December 27th, 2005 at 11:31 am
I’ve never even heard of shoo-fly pie, very curious to find out what it entails!
God, now I want want want.
December 27th, 2005 at 11:40 am
I rilly rilly want to see your gumbo recipe.
December 27th, 2005 at 12:12 pm
From what I’ve had, its a pie. I tried making it once with *disastrous* results. It had waaay too much molases in it, and it completely bubbled over the edges. Maybe that recipe called for a deeper pie dish that I was using, or else something went wrong and something reacted with another — an entire shoofly pie at the bottom of my oven. not a good thing. :P
December 27th, 2005 at 2:14 pm
“Shoe fly pie and apple pan dowdy, makes your eyes light up, and your tummy say howdy” An old jazz number, it would seem. “I can’t get enough of that wonderful stuff.”
That’s all I know about Shoe Fly Pie. I’m interesting in finding out how your experiment goes! (and if you make apple pan dowdy, too)
December 27th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
pie, and i havent ever made one, but drawing on my vast repertoire of possibly inaccurate recollections, its basically similar to pecan pie filling - minus the pecans, plus i think baking soda? to kinda fluff up the filling, and with some sort of crumb topping. entails the same inherent spillover risks as pecan pie, but even more so, thanks to the soda.
December 27th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
oh, and shoo-fly, as in “shoo, fly, dont bother me”, cause its a sugar bomb of a pie.
January 3rd, 2006 at 7:35 am
The real question is:
where is the rum butter cupcake recipe???