shoo-fly pie
Pennsylvania Dutch treat
Shoo-fly pie is a Pennsylvania Dutch dessert made with molasses and a crumbly streusel topping.
The filling is gooey and intensely sweet—the kind of thing that might attract flies you'd need to shoo away.
It remains a regional specialty of Pennsylvania and Amish communities: We stopped at a roadside stand for shoo-fly pie.
- molassesSyrup from cane processing
- PennsylvaniaNortheastern founding colony state
- AmishTraditional simple-living sect
- Lancaster CountyPennsylvania region, plain communities
- apple butterCooked-down fruit spread
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