Shoofly Pie

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8–10

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      50 min

Appears in
American Baking

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1986

  • About

Basic recipe: American Shortcrust Pastry or Shortcrust Pastry or Cream Cheese Pastry

‘Shoofly Pie and Apple Pandowdy’ was the title of a song in America in the 1940s, but long before that Shoofly Pie had been a speciality of the Pennsylvania Dutch. It is not hard to imagine how the pie got its name, with sticky molasses as an ingredient. If you are not found of the