Title: Shoo-Fly Cake (Old Lehigh County Recipe)
Categories: Cake Penn
Yield: 1 Servings
1 1/2 | c | Flour |
1/4 | c | Lard |
1/4 | c | Butter |
1/2 | c | Water, hot |
| | *pastry |
1 | c | Brown sugar |
| | *or: |
1/2 | c | Molasses |
1/2 | ts | Soda |
Make crumbs by combining the flour, sugar and shortening. Line a pie pan
with pastry. Dissolve the soda in the hot water and combine with the
molasses. Pour into the pastry-lined pan, top with the crumbs and bake at
350-F until firm. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes,
Culinary Arts Press, 1936.