What dessert "Makes your eyes light up, your tummy say 'Howdy'"?

cooljuan

sho fly pie www.theguitarguy.com/shoofly.htm Aug 02 09, 9:59 PM

Baloo55th

I'd love to meet the people that think up these slogans. And the poor so-and-sos that pay them for them.... Aug 03 09, 7:51 AM

serpa

In 1946 Dinah Shore did a cover version of the song "Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" reaching the top-ten for the first time! Aug 04 09, 2:22 AM

queproblema

This is a line from a song, not an advertising slogan. The song says they're from New England, but I associate them with Mennonites, since the people I know who make them are Mennonites and the recipes are in a Mennonite cookbook we have. (Some would say Amish or Pennsylvania Dutch; I'm not getting into distinguishing among the three!) Some sites say the recipes date from "colonial times," which could be construed to mean New England, but I take to mean Pennsylvania. This article is about the "plain people" and mentions both dishes. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/25/travel/fare-of-the-country-a-plain-people-s-bountiful-table.html?pagewanted=all "Shoofly pie has a supporting crust under a moist base (cookbooks and menus sometimes call it a 'wet bottom') of molasses, brown sugar and spices that is topped with a crumbly mixture of brown sugar, flour and shortening; shoofly can be moister or dryer, depending upon the proportion of moist base to crumbly top. ....and apple pandowdy is apple cobbler." Here's a picture and text Baloo will enjoy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoebeofthesea/3716500787/ Aug 04 09, 8:43 AM

Baloo55th

Cynical Bear assumed that it must be a slogan... In the UK, the 'pie' would be classed as a 'tart'. Our pies tend to have roofs. Sounds nice - but we have another communication problem. The 'pie' sounds a bit like our treacle tart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treacle_tart which is made with golden syrup not treacle (we know what it is....) - but I'm not sure what your molasses are. Ours is even thicker than treacle - when a very large tank of it split and covered a nearby road, it took hours and hours to free the stuck cars. (I hate to think what it did to the drains.) Aug 04 09, 1:41 PM