Recipe: Appetizing Old Fashioned Molasses Pie

Old Fashioned Molasses Pie. Old Fashioned Molasses Pie - a simple PA Dutch pie. Similar to a shoofly pie - but different. Just to prevent any confusion - I will start this off by letting everyone know that this is not a shoofly pie.

Beat the eggs until light and fluffy. Mix the flour and sugar with eggs and add to molasses mixture. This old-fashioned, "desperation pie" recipe couldn't be easier to make.. You can have Old Fashioned Molasses Pie using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Molasses Pie

1. You need 1 of prepared 9" pie crust.
2. It's 3/4 cup of flour, heaping.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
4. Prepare 1 1/2 tablespoon of butter (butter substitute for vegans).
5. You need 1/4 cup of molasses (unsulphured).
6. It's 1/4 cup of boiling water.
7. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda.

Its base is simply a mixture of molasses, hot water, baking soda, and an egg. It's topped with a sprinkling of simple shortbread crumbles that bake into the molasses mixture. The result is a gooey, crumbly, buttery, and magically different pie, with the tangy and. Quakertown Molasses Crumb Pie is an old-fashioned recipe that is similar to shoo-fly pie.

Old Fashioned Molasses Pie step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Combine flour and sugar in a mixing bowl..
3. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter/butter substitute until mixture is fine crumbed..
4. Pour molasses in a separate mixing bowl..
5. In a small saucepan, bring water to a boil..
6. Add ¼ cup boiling water and baking soda to molasses. Stir until mixture is foamy/frothy and rises..
7. Pour molasses mixture into pie crust/tin. Sprinkle the flour mixture over molasses, stirring it in until just combined. Even out top of pie..
8. Just to prevent a mess - place pie tin on a cookie sheet - this pie can bake/spill over. Bake for about 25 minutes. Pie will rise and then start to settle..
9. Cool on wire rack. We enjoy this perfectly plain, but some walnuts or pecans would compliment this nicely. Enjoy :).
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Rich, gooey molasses filling baked with a crumb topping. In a large bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, cinnamon, salt, ginger and nutmeg. Sift together sugar, flour, salt and spices into mixing bowl. Add molasses, pumpkin and eggs; mix well. Or, if you prefer a sweeter pie and a lighter colored pie, you could still use a half cup of regular molasses and a quarter cup of maple syrup even when not using blackstrap molasses.