{"id":3070,"slug":"shoofly-pie","title":"Shoofly Pie","description":"Shoofly pie is a molasses crumb pie that originated in the US in the late 19th century among the Pennsylvania Dutch communities. A strongly flavored pie, it was traditionally served cold with a cup of hot coffee as a quick breakfast for a busy farmer.","ingredients_raw":["1 ea. Bottom pie crust","½ cup (115 g) Butter, cold and cubed","1½ cups (180 g) All-purpose flour","½ cup (100 g) Brown sugar, preferably dark","1 teaspoon (3 g) Ground cinnamon","½ teaspoon (1 g) Ground nutmeg","¾ cup (6 fl oz) (170 g) Boiling water","¾ cup (250 g) Light unsulphured molasses","½ teaspoon (3 g) Baking soda"],"ingredients_norm":["ea. bottom pie crust","butter","all purpose flour","brown sugar","ground cinnamon","ground nutmeg","boiling water","light unsulphured molasses","baking soda"],"steps":["Fit your raw pie crust into the pie plate. Because the pie filling is liquid, do not dock (prick holes in) the dough or use a perforated pie plate. Patch any accidental holes or tears you see. Shape the pie crust edges however you would like.","Freeze the empty pie crust for 15 minutes, or refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes.","Preheat the oven to 375 °F (190 °C, gas mark 5, moderately hot).","Line the cold pie crust with parchment paper or a paper coffee filter that is big enough to cover the entire pie, from edge to edge, when pressed down.","Fill the paper with pie weights. These will hold the parchment paper against the side of the pie crust, to keep it from melting and sliding down the edges in the oven.","Bake for 20–25 minutes. Remove it from the oven, and then remove the pie weights and the paper. Discard the paper. The pie weights can be stored and reused.","Turn the oven temperature up to 450 °F (230 °C, gas mark 8, hot/very hot).","Transfer the butter pieces, flour, brown sugar, and spices into a mixing bowl.","Cut or rub the ingredients together. You can do this with a pastry blender, wooden spoon, or electric mixer. Stop before the mixture is completely blended together—you should still be able to see some small lumps of butter.","Spread at least a quarter of the raw streusel filling across the bottom of the parbaked pie crust.","Stir the boiling water and molasses together in the heat-proof bowl.","Working quickly, stir the baking soda into the molasses-water mixture, and then immediately pour it into the pie crust, on top of the streusel filling.","Top with the rest of the streusel filling, spreading it flat with your hand or the back of a spoon if needed.","Cover the edges of the crust with a pie crust shield or aluminum foil, so they will be less likely to overcook.","Carefully put the pie in the oven to bake. The boiling hot liquid filling will slosh when you move the pie, so move slowly. You may want to put a baking sheet under the pie to catch any drips.","Bake at 450 °F (230 °C, gas mark 8, hot/very hot) for 15 minutes.","Reduce the temperature to 350 °F (175 °C, gas mark 4, moderate/medium) for another 20 minutes. The pie filling should be set (i.e. it should not wiggle when you take it out of the oven), but the exact amount of doneness is a matter of personal preference.","Let cool before serving—if you don't, it will make a mess when you cut it."],"categories":["Pie recipes","Recipes for pies and tarts","Recipes for pastries","Dessert recipes","Vegetarian recipes","Baking recipes","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using brown sugar","Recipes using butter","Recipes using nutmeg","Recipes using light molasses","Recipes using ground cinnamon","Recipes using baking soda"],"prep_time_minutes":60,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":120,"servings":null,"yield_text":"1 pie","difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Shoofly_Pie","source_ref":"4603915","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Shoofly_Pie&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"c6d7f5769640b9e1d5125b57f19b2afa90e28b3c58af01e45ec1d5298856482e","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:21Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/shoofly-pie"}