The Barnraising

[Crazy Liz]

This is a place for us to lighten up and just have good fellowship in the spirit of neighborliness.

Bring your hammer and saw, or a shoo-fly pie to share and let's all just have a good time!

 

[Crazy Liz]

Speaking of shoo-fy pie, here's my favorite recipe, from the More with Less Cookbook:

Preheat oven to 375º.
Prepare 1 unbaked 9" pie shell.
Cut together with a pastry blender:

• 1 c. flour
• 1/2 c. brown sugar
• 2 T. shortening or margarine

Reserve 1/2 c. crumbs for topping.
Combine in mixing bowl:

• 1 c. molasses
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 3/4 c. cold water
• 1 t. soda in
• 1/4 c. hot water

Add crumb mixture and beat together. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Sprinkle reserved 1/2 c. crumbs on top. Bake 35 minutes.

--attributed to Elta Miller, Lititz, PA

I use butter instead of margarine.

I recommend Grandma's Molasses for this recipe. It is darker and richer than sulphured molasses, but not quite as strong as blackstrap. It doesn't have so much of that sorghum flavor.

Shoo-fly pie is best served warm with milk or coffee.

 

[Echoes Peak]

Liz, you're a southerner, huh.


Btw, I have a hammer, but I don't know if you want me wielding that thing. Something, or rather SOMEONE, is bound to get hurt.

 

[Servant of the Kingdom]

for a sec I thought... Amish!

 

[Crazy Liz]

Nope. Are you? You are quite right in noticing its resemblance to southern chess pies and pecan pies, but it's Pennsylvania Dutch.

Not that I'm Pennsylvania Dutch, either. But my heritage is Mennonite. I'm from California.

But come, sit down, have a piece of pie (> and a cup of coffee (_)D

I'm sorry that piece of pie is so little. Have another (>

 

[Echoes Peak]

Molasses?...Barnraising?..Baptist forum...it sounded like a southern-fest if I've ever heard of one. All we needed was NASCAR..heh.


I'm in the South, tis why I asked.

 

[Crazy Liz]

I guess we'll have to find out a little more about what we Anabaptists and Pennsylvania Dutch have in common with y'all Southern Babdists.

 

[Echoes Peak]

I guess we'll have to find out a little more about what we Anabaptists and Pennsylvania Dutch have in common with y'all Southern Babdists.

LOL. I"m a "southern" Baptist..but not a SOUTHERN Baptist a.k.a. (SBC). How confusing this can all get.

 

[Crazy Liz]

It's OK. Just go ahead and eat your pie (>

How do you like it?

I see you're not drinking your coffee (_)D

Let me run get you some cream \_)D
and sugar C(_)D

Or would you rather have a glass of cold milk? |_|

 

[Echoes Peak]

You crack me up.

I'm not a coffee drinker. However, if you have some iced tea, I might be game.

 

[P_G]

Fair enough Say!

Boot Lizzy der is better yet goot
Say nah vet boddum pie ist betta ?

Or maybe some fooney cake?

Or a Whoopie Pie

Blessings

Pastor George Of the Pennsylvania Mennonites
Just 30 minutes from Lancaster

 

[Crazy Liz]

Now there you'll have to help me. How do you Southerners get it so sweet? Do you put sugar in it while it's still hot and then pour it over the ice?

I like my sugar in my pie and not in my drink. But I'd like to learn to make it the way you like it.

 

[Echoes Peak]

Heh. I put the sugar in while the tea is still hot. But if you do it the other way, you're forgiven.

 

[Crazy Liz]

Heh. I put the sugar in while the tea is still hot. But if you do it the other way, you're forgiven.

Thank you.

Will you still forgive me if I drink my ice tea with no sugar at all?

I'll try to make your glass just the way you like it.

 

[Crazy Liz]

Thanks, Kristi, for sticking this thread. Maybe it will help us remember to be more neighborly.



You've worked hard today. Sit down and have a piece of shoofly pie (>

Would you like a cup of coffee or a glass of milk with that?

...

Oh, Nehemiah, I notice your plate is empty. What can I get you?

 

[Echoes Peak]

Thank you.

Will you still forgive me if I drink my ice tea with no sugar at all?

I'll try to make your glass just the way you like it.

No sugar? Absolute blasphemy...j/k.

Sweet tea without the sweetness....weird...

 

[jenptcfan]

Tea should have lots and lots of sugar...and the sugar should always be added while the tea is warm!

 

[Crazy Liz]

What's the deal with sweet tea-drinking Southern Babdist ladies and pigs?

 

[Cright]

just poking my head in to say "hi"...

... but it's late (or rather very early) right now, so I'm going to run w/out eating and get some sleep.

Will stop by again soon!

 

[Mary_Magdalene]

before i moved to the south, i drank unsweet tea. (im so embarrassed! )

now, i am addicted...

**GodsChosenGirl adds 2 lbs of sugar to a quart of hot tea. stirs. adds lots of ice***

...mmmm...just like syrup!

oh, BTW, there is no calories in cyber food!!! so.....

i will drink a gallon of that sweet tea and make some fried green tomatoes (fried right in some bacon grease)...

anyone for some pickled pigs feet?