Word of warning: if you don't like molasses, just skip this post.
The Shoofly Pie is a Molasses Pie. No one warns you of this tasty fact.
"likely that the pie is named after a famed 19th century circus animal called Shoofly the Boxing Mule"
First Pie: I picked Taste of Home's recipe for a "wet bottom" Shoofly Pie (doesn't that sound great?!)...for no particular reason...they just made it sound fun...
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/shoofly-pie/
This version (although I may have overcooked it) was not exactly wet bottomed....it was reminiscent a moist molasses muffin baked in a pie shell (thanks, Aldi!)...I enjoyed it with a cup of coffee.
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Second Pie: We tried the recipe in "The Joy of Cooking"... As it sat on your plate, it began to weep....not uncontrollably, as if it had a sad past and was trying to be brave and suffer in silence...
In general, I would say it was the better pie, although I would make either one depending on the occasion. Right after I made this recipe, I found a list online of recipe variations/tweaking like adding ginger & spice to make it more a Gingerbread in a pie crust! Sadly, while I copied notes, I can't find where I saved them now...or maybe I accidentally deleted the screenshot.....hmmm...
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