Subscribe for a bite of Dessert !!!! What to Expect in this Episode: Mrs H and Baby H tackling the Wet Bottom ShooFly Pie recipe step by step. The secret behind the delicious molasses filling and crumbly topping. Baking tips and tricks to make your own perfect ShooFly Pie. A mouthwatering taste test featuring Mr H's candid reaction to this iconic Pennsylvania Dutch dessert! Get ready to join the H family in the kitchen, where love and laughter mix with flour and sugar. Will the Wet Bottom ShooFly Pie become a new family favorite, or will it surprise them with its unique flavors? There's only one way to find out - hit play and enjoy the sweet journey with Mr H and Friends! 👍 Don't forget to LIKE, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE for more delightful moments in the Mr H and Friends kitchen! Let us know in the comments below if you've tried making Wet Bottom ShooFly Pie and what your favorite Pennsylvania Dutch desserts are! Recipe HERE: www.plattertalk.com/shoo-fly-pie-recipe/ Subscribe to our Channel: ua-cam.com/channels/cUmDzk4GRQjZMm6IhLsWEg.html?view_confirmation=1 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/user/posts?u=65835488 Support us with a PayPal donation: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XGVMB2C4ZNVHG Check out our Amazon store for products featured in this video (we earn a small commission from Amazon): www.amazon.com/shop/mrhandfriends #usfood #usfoods #brits #Shooflypierecipe #pennsylvania #Grangerpie #Pennsylvaniandutch #Amish #molasses #lancastercounty #mennonite Join this channel to get access to perks: ua-cam.com/channels/cUmDzk4GRQjZMm6IhLsWEg.html/join Sign Up for Mr H and friends competitions and newsletters: www.mrhandfriends.com/ MR H Pox Box: **IMPORTANT ALL PARCEL MUST BE SENT VIA "US Mail / US Postal service ONLY** Other carriers such as UPS etc will be returned (Sorry) Mr H and friends PO Box 331 BRISTOL United Kingdom BS15 0FH Weights and Dims for Max Length 17.7" Max Width 13.8" Max Thickness 6.2" Max Weight 4.4 lbs ✅ Check our NEW MERCH Store: teespring.com/stores/mr-h-and-friends ✅Say hi on social: Instagram: instagram.com/mr_h_youtube/ Twitter: twitter.com/Mr_H_UA-cam Facebook: facebook.com/MrHandFriends Discord: email mrhandfriends@gmail.com for the up to date link
Aww her greeting was so darned cute. Princess H is growing up so fast. Watch out y'all, if you blink you will miss it and she will be graduating High School when you wake up in the morning.
Molasses is great for so many things. Mix some with a little white wine, garlic and rosemary then use it to glaze a ham. It will be the best hem you ever ate. You can also make molasses ginger cookies which are absolutely heavenly.
I might be a crazy old lady, but I think mom cooking with daughter is one of the most beautiful things in the world. I think of it from centuries ago, and we've fed our families well. 😊 Elana is so adorable it's ridiculous!! 💝
The best things I remember are cooking, and gardening with my children. I have three small sized rolling pins my mother in law used with her three boys, now men. It is such a fun way to connect with and teach your children.
I was thinking the same thing. Before it was just a word here and there but. wow she is stringing 3-4 words together at a time, probably within a month she will be saying complete sentences.
A little tip for things like molasses and honey. If you spray the measuring cup with a very thin layer of nonstick cooking spray before you pour it in, it will slide right out of the cup with no scraping.
I'm half Pennsylvania Dutch & I've never seen it made that way. Pennsylvania Dutch are German & were originally called Pennsylvania Deutsch (meaning German) but was Americanized to "Dutch" (meaning foreigner). We are not Dutch. Good job on pie! A few tips. Don't use darkest molasses unless you like intense flavor. Hold back ½ cup of crumbs for topping. Crumbs & liquid is combined BEFORE placing into pie dish. Pour mixture into pan & sprinkle remains crumbs on top. Bake at 425°F for 15 minutes then reduce heat to 350°F for 30 to 45 minutes. (For glass pie plate, temperature should be reduced about 25°F). To reduce intensity of flavor, switch to mild or light molasses & use light brown sugar instead of dark. I'm not a fan of pie but I love shoo-fly cake. I use ½ cup mild & ½ cup light molasses so it has less intense flavor. Below recipe is simple to make: SHOO-FLY CAKE 4 cups flour 2 cups light brown sugar 1 cup butter 2 cups boiling water 1 cup molasses 2 teaspoons baking soda 1. Work flour, sugar, & butter into fine crumbs with fingers or pastry mixer. Set aside 1½ cups of crumbs for topping. 2. Mix boiling water, molasses, & baking soda together. 3. Add crumbs & stir until batter is very thin but still a bit lumpy. 4. Pour into greased & floured 9"x13" cake pan & sprinkle with crumbs that were set aside. (Don't not press crumbs into batter below.) 5. Bake at 350°F for 35 minutes. Pennsylvania Dutch/Amish recipe you would probably love is Chocolate Whoopie Pies.
I made a trip to Pennsylvania for work one time and brought one home on an airplane that I bought at an Amish country store. I almost got mugged. The flight attendant had to put it up in the flight deck area to protect it. My mother and father were in heaven when I walked in the door....lol
You already figured out the trick. It goes Perfect with Coffee! One modification I do is I make it using a large size muffin pan to get many small "tart" size pies. It reduces the very sweet filling ratio while increasing the pie crust ratio. More inline with the taste buds of adults. The way you "spilled" filling on the crust was interesting since I learned to make it by purposefully brushing the filling on the crust to give it that candy like coating while that bit of "burned" flavor enhances the coffee. On a side note. Extra pie crust pieces can be given to Elana so she can make into small cute shapes and baked along side like a cookie. Place one on top of her small serving to have her own special treat that she made all by herself!
You can bake the leftover strips of pie crust after sprinkling with cinnamon and sugar. This is how we were kept out of the pie until it cooled when I was a kid.
I thought back to my childhood, I would love to find a set of child size baking items, My nieces had their own child size rolling pin, pie pans etc, if she had those she could make her own crust from the left over pieces, little sugar and cinnamon sprinkle and into the oven for a few minutes.
Mrs. H, use your hands as little as possible when making a pie crust. The heat from your hands melts the butter that you want to keep in chunk. Also, use a spatula to scrap of that butter cutter you were using to incorporate the butter into the flour, again to keep the butter cold. Finally use a marble cutting board that you chilled in the freezer when working the dough and if you don't have a marble cutting board then put whatever board you have in the freezer to keep the butter cold. It is all about keeping that butter in small pieces instead of it turning into a liquid, so you get a pie crust that is light and flakey with great layers from the butter as it cooks. P.S. This also applies to making any puff pastry and or crescent rollsm you don't want the butter to melt before cooking.
Mrs. H, you're too hard on yourself! Not everyone can make a good pie crust! And you have such an adorable, smart helper in h, and are giving her not only moments to treasure, but a start on being a good chef herself! Oh, and FYI, a little tip on what my mother used to do with leftover pie crust-she'd sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on it (to your taste) then stick it in the oven until it was baked. SOOO good! I think that was my favorite part of her baking a pie.
I recommend that you only use 1/4 cup light molasses and 1/4 cup dark molasses and 1/2 cup boiling water. For the crumb topping I'd recommend light brown sugar instead of dark. Also the crumb should look like a bunch of weird colored peas. Also if you want a lighter crust, halfway through the baking process wrap a strip of foil around the crust edges.
Shoofly pie is a bit of an acquired taste. As a kid I thought it was gross (rather like I felt about another PA Dutch specialty, sauerkraut and pork) but somewhere around the time I became a mom, I suddenly realized how great it is. My sister used to drive through Lancaster often on her way to visit friends in Phila. and she'd always stop at Shady Maples (a great PA Dutch run smorgasbord.) and pick up a shoofly pie for her and I to share. She'd baked them from time to time, but Shady Maples is the best. Alas, she passed on December 9, so there will be no more of that. She also saw to it that i got my sauerkraut and pork on New Year's (PA Dutch guarantee for health and prosperity in the coming year!) but my nephew stepped up and brought me a takeout container with sauerkraut, pork, mashed potatoes and a dumpling. YUM! Somehow your crumb topping merged completely into the pie filling. Did it have a somewhat burned taste to it? That topping should end up almost like a very thin cake layer on top. I don't drink coffee but it goes darned well with a cup of good strong tea. :) Elana's amazing. I"m with others who said that her little "Greetings!" and the slap was too adorable for words. She was a total scene stealer. Don't ever work with kids or animals, isn't what they say?
Oh my days! Elana saying Greetings and the hand slap tickled so much. I even laughed out loud! She is becoming such a Pro! It was sweet to see her helping mummy out. truly made my day. Good job Elana, well done! xx
I can't believe Elana is going to be 2 years old in 12 days, I loved hearing her talking... she is so smart!! When my son Buddy turned 2 years old, a friend of mine bought him a t-shirt that said "I'm 2 years old and there's nothing YOU can do about it!" That shirt fit him well... in many ways... lol! Happy new year H family.... I enjoy watching your little helper in the kitchen... so cute! 😊❤😊❤😊❤
Just a couple tips: Spray your measuring cup with cooking spray before putting the treacle in it. Should make it come out more easily Use the hot water to clean the rest of the treacle from the cup so it doesn't go to waste 😊
Shoofly Pie is forever linked with the other dessert of Apple Pan Dowdy thanks Dinah Shore singing the classic song named Shoofly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy. What a vintage slice of America song like these desserts are.
Incredible! I grew up in Brooklyn, and as a kid, our family visited the Pennsylvania Dutch/Amish area now and then for a weekend. It’s the Amish who made this pie famous, and I loved it. Haven’t had it in decades. To my knowledge, you can’t really find this pie outside of Amish communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. To
I grew up my whole life surrounded by the Amish in the Lancaster area of PA. Love a good shoefly pie! (Although I moved when I married 3 yr ago, Im still surrounded by Amish just not the touristy Amish country that Lancaster is.) *You are right when you did your pie research.*There are two kinds of shoefly & the difference is the construction of the bottom part of the pie. Some recipes will tell you it's a "wet" bottom shoefly pie or a "dry" bottom shoefly pie. The best ones are the "wet" ones because the dry ones really do end up tasting a bit too dry and not gooey like a shoefly should be. :)
I had Shoo Fly Pie several years ago in my home state of Illinois. My parents and I were in a small Amish town where we stopped to have lunch, and one of the dessert choices was Shoo Fly Pie. I wanted to try it, so I did and it was very good!
My mom always took the left over crust pieces, rolled them out and cut into squares. Put sugar and cinnamon on them and backed them golden brown. Best part of the pie.
OMG!!! I can't EVEN with Elana talking so well!!! I love how you've got her in the kitchen and that she loves it. I'm not a fan of Shoofly Pie. I like molasses but not THAT much. Well done!
Amish here [Maryland] make wet bottom with molasses on bottom and a lighter color crumb on top. It may be because they use light brown sugar in their recipe.
Watching the little one and her mam cook together kinda pulled at the old heart strings. I remember making lasagna when the kids were small, used to let them make one of their own with the left over ingredients...Great Video, thank you for sharing!!!
Grease your measuring cup and then put in the sticky stuff (honey or molasses, etc) and it will come out much easier. You are such a good mum and Elana is so cute. How old is she?
I have never had shoo fly pie, though I have heard of. A lovely pie, my favorite, is Lemon Chess. It has about 2 tablespoons of cornmeal which helps thicken and gives an interesting texture. The rest is sugar, eggs, and lemon juice. It is super rich, and to me perfect. I only make it about twice a year, because it is so rich.
Looking forward to today's live session. I 'm not sure how you will like Shoofly pie. Some people really enjoy it and others are not keen on it. It's very sweet.
WV here. Used to live in Pennsylvania. My Dad really liked that Shoo Fly Pie. Used to stop and get it at those Flea markets or Farmer’s markets. He used to try to get me to eat it. Alana is so cute!
Hi to the H’es and family, shouting out from Maryland! I have never tasted shoofly pie even though Maryland is right next to the State of Pennsylvania. It’s okay to not like something guys without an apology, you’re not going to like everything you try😊. I love that Elana is really developing her vocabulary and becoming more vocal.❤❤👋🏽🇺🇸
When I have made this pie before, it always seemed to come out too dry. I used my mother's recipe, and she always made it better than I could on my own. What you have made looks a lot like my mother's recipe, but your recipe has more spices in it. Your recipe looks really good.
I love how Mrs. H was reading off the ingredients and Elana wanted to put the pastry inside and with out missing a beat..."but not that though".☺️ So cute together in the kitchen.💖
I grew up near Lancaster, Pa and ate Pa Dutch cooking all my life. My ancestors were the first Mennonites to come to America, my family was not Mennonite though, they broke away from it probably about 100 years ago or more. But old habits die hard and we retained a lot of the traditions. I love Shoo Fly Pie and made a few myself but I can't say I ever saw one that dark and the crumbs on top should be crumbly and just a light brown. I hope you can visit Pennsylvania some day, the food there is quite different than what you'll find in the rest of the country, it's my personal favorite!
Elana's well started on YouTubing *and* baking! Brava! And look at you, Mrs. H. You've gone and turned into a pie baker on us. 😁 Remember how nervous you were the first time? Your cooking episodes remind me of my mom and I together in the kitchen more and more. It's so much fun to watch you and Elana doing the same. ❤ She'll remember these the rest of her life. I think shoofly pie would be much too sweet for me, too, but it was great to see it made. I've never seen one except in pictures. Got a kick out of you enjoying cutting in the butter. Good tools make things easier. Re tools, I agree with another commenter; now we have to get you a proper American rolling pin! A good hardwood one that rotates on a metal shaft, using ball bearings, with handles that aren't fixed in place. Your hands grip the handles steady and only the *pin* rotates. Much, much easier for applying pressure. Piecrusts, cookies, dough - for anything you roll out. Plus Elana will have fun spinning it. 😂
My mother’s family is Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch), so I’ve definitely had shoofly pie. It’s not my favorite, but I’m not really a pie person anyway. Your daughter is a great helper!
I live one hour from the Amish Pennsylvania Dutch. I see them at the local farmers market. They make a lot of really good things but shoo fly pie is not one of my favorite! ❤🇺🇸🙏🏻👍🏻
I'm about an hour from Sinking Valley where there's a large Amish community. We go there to buy fresh produce and other stuff. We also have them come to our property and do some work when we need.
I was born & raised in Southwestern Pa & grew up eating my mom’s shoofly pie. She always made the wet bottom version (that’s what she called it). I really like how patient you are with Elana, she’s so adorable.
I make a hybrid of shoofly and pecan pies because I like the molasses nip of the former and the crunchy-chewy nuts of the later. I generally use praline pecans which are much, much sweeter and less bitter. Pecan pie with bitter nuts is a turn off to many. I think most commercial pecan pies are too focused on corn syrup and brown sugar while molasses is a much deeper, darker complex sugar. I top mine with ice cream and believe it or not mint and peppermint ice creams are pretty darn incredible with the hybrid pies.
Yay you for trying all these recipes! Elana is adorable, more so everyday. 🥰 I’m from Illinois, I’ve heard of Shoofly Pie, of course, but I don’t recall ever trying it. When my grandmother passed away I was 15. I inherited her butter cutter, it is awesome! It broke when I was in college and I couldn’t rest until I found another. I’m glad you have one.
I grew up in western PA where there were some Amish communities and farms but ill just say that I rarely saw a shoefly pie, even in restraunts. I would have to say that in my experience the most abundant homemade pies you would find would be apple or cherry. Ive never even had the opportunity to try a shoefly pie but it looks yummy, perhaps its just more prevelant on the other side of mountains towards the east. Alana is so cute and talking so well, my favorite ages of my kids were those years from 2 to 4 yrs old. They are just so curious about everything, and the way their eyes light up when seeing or experiencing something new....treasured memories.
Shoo fly pie is actually an adaptation of classic treacle tart in a different and larger form. The filling is mostly molasses or what you call black treacle. In Florida the hummingbird cake is the choice dessert. Basically the idea is that it’s so sweet that it attracts hummingbirds. Shoo fly pie is kinda the same as it’s supposed to attract flies which you shoo away. It actually doesn’t happen that way but it’s fun to think that it does.
My mother's side of the family is from York, Pennsylvania next to Amish country and we would always have shoo-fly pie when we visited our grandparents.
Oh how I love watching you and your daughter cooking together. It so reminds me of doing the same with my own daughter at that age as well as myself with both my mother and grandmother. If you make another pie crust, take those little extra scraps that Little Bit is playing with and roll them out with her to make a nice size extra piece. Spread butter on it and then sprinkle it with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Run a pizza cutter or take a knife and cut that into strips, give a little twist to the strips and put on a baking sheet. They will bake up nice and when done will be golden and crunchy with that sweet cinnamon goodness. You little one will love spreading everything out onto her own bits and making her own treat while you do the main.
This is great. My granny would give us the pie crust trimmings and let us put sugar/cinnamon/butter or whatever we wanted and while baking the pie she'd put those on a cookie sheet so we'd have little strips of pie cracklings
3 or 4 centuries ago it probably had a Dutch or German name that sounded like Shoofly. And just became Shoo Fly as English became the main language of the region.
Mrs. H... I showed Bart this video before dinner and I said to him.... "Mrs. H would be a GREAT Pampered Chef consultant, she's a natural at doing these Cooking with H videos!" He agreed... Bart and I used to be Pampered Chef consultants from 1999 until about 2002. He loved doing the cooking demonstrations (he used to be a chef before he started having a lot of medical issues), and I did all of the paperwork taking the orders and working with the lady who hosted the show in her home. Too bad they don't have Pampered Chef over there, but I believe you have enough on your hands! Keep up the great cooking videos, and perhaps someday in the future... you can compete against Gordon Ramsey some day! 😊❤😊❤😊
Mrs. H is a fantastic cook! I don't think I've ever had Shoo Fly pie. If it's not your thing, it probably wouldn't be mine either. It probably has great history though.
Great job as usual.Mrs.H. its wonderful to see you using the butter cutter.I remember the hesitation when you first started.Try rolling it like you would if you were rolling out a fingerprint.
Someone should send the H family one of our american rolling pins. Might be easier to make American dishes that way since they're shaped differently (thicker/bulkier) and the middle bit can rotate separate to the handles on some of them making rolling less of a chore.
Yes! There's nothing like an American rolling pin mounted on ball bearings for pie crusts. No fancy one you fill with ice, or made from marble, or without handles, whatever. You can apply much more pressure, easily roll at different angles, and not handle the dough nearly so much. If no one's going to get one for her, maybe we need get together and take up a collection! 😄 (One of the the worst-looking pie crusts I've ever seen was on some chef's UA-cam channel in the last few years. Anyone on either side of my family would've been ashamed to serve it. And this was a pro? Pfft.)
Looks delicious! Great job Mrs. H. Elana is such a precious little girl. I just love seeing her grow. Love your channel. Fairly new here - a couple months. Sending best wishes from New York State.
The gadget being used to mix the butter and flour is called a pastry blender. It is better than using your fingers because you want the butter to remain cold for as long as possible and using your hands will cause the butter to melt quicker. Having the butter cold as long as possible helps with the flakiness of the piecrust.
Hooray! Thank you for trying one of my favorite pies. My Mom (RIP) use to make it for us and I love it. We had it for breakfast. It is an acquired taste and I haven’t had any that was as good as my Moms 😂.
One of my methods of incorporating butter into flour is to freeze the butter the use a cheese grater. I also use some vegetable shortening that I chill along with the butter when making biscuits. Central Texas here
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What to Expect in this Episode:
Mrs H and Baby H tackling the Wet Bottom ShooFly Pie recipe step by step.
The secret behind the delicious molasses filling and crumbly topping.
Baking tips and tricks to make your own perfect ShooFly Pie.
A mouthwatering taste test featuring Mr H's candid reaction to this iconic Pennsylvania Dutch dessert!
Get ready to join the H family in the kitchen, where love and laughter mix with flour and sugar. Will the Wet Bottom ShooFly Pie become a new family favorite, or will it surprise them with its unique flavors? There's only one way to find out - hit play and enjoy the sweet journey with Mr H and Friends!
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You need to try Walnut pie. Just use a Pecan pie recipe and substitute in Walnuts.
Aww her greeting was so darned cute. Princess H is growing up so fast. Watch out y'all, if you blink you will miss it and she will be graduating High School when you wake up in the morning.
Molasses is great for so many things. Mix some with a little white wine, garlic and rosemary then use it to glaze a ham. It will be the best hem you ever ate. You can also make molasses ginger cookies which are absolutely heavenly.
I might be a crazy old lady, but I think mom cooking with daughter is one of the most beautiful things in the world. I think of it from centuries ago, and we've fed our families well. 😊
Elana is so adorable it's ridiculous!! 💝
This old man as well . . .
I am a old man and when I see my wife cooking I just have to hug her and she tells me to let her cook . Food is love .
The best things I remember are cooking, and gardening with my children. I have three small sized rolling pins my mother in law used with her three boys, now men. It is such a fun way to connect with and teach your children.
I think she will be doing cooking videos in about ten years.
It’s amazing to see Elana’s verbal skills growing by leaps and bounds from video to video.
I was thinking the same thing.
Before it was just a word here and there but. wow she is stringing 3-4 words together at a time, probably within a month she will be saying complete sentences.
She even knows her Daddy's schtick too (Slap!). 😄
It seems like every time I click on their next video she has grown and gotten bigger too.
Honestly, I wasn't really expecting this, but you're absolutely right it's kind of cool!
Such a sweet baby
A little tip for things like molasses and honey. If you spray the measuring cup with a very thin layer of nonstick cooking spray before you pour it in, it will slide right out of the cup with no scraping.
Elana stole the show lol 😂 amazing how well she communicates…and so adorable 😊
A lot of moms give kids the leftover pastry to lay in a pan and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar to stick in the oven for a little treat.
That's what I was coming to say/ The leftover crust bits cool off faster than the pie so the kid's patience isn't overstretched.
Kids? My Uncle does that for me when he bakes pies and I'm 54! 🤣
Left over pie dough fill with jam folded into shapes and sprinkled with sugar and baked was always a treat
I'm half Pennsylvania Dutch & I've never seen it made that way. Pennsylvania Dutch are German & were originally called Pennsylvania Deutsch (meaning German) but was Americanized to "Dutch" (meaning foreigner). We are not Dutch.
Good job on pie! A few tips. Don't use darkest molasses unless you like intense flavor. Hold back ½ cup of crumbs for topping. Crumbs & liquid is combined BEFORE placing into pie dish. Pour mixture into pan & sprinkle remains crumbs on top. Bake at 425°F for 15 minutes then reduce heat to 350°F for 30 to 45 minutes. (For glass pie plate, temperature should be reduced about 25°F).
To reduce intensity of flavor, switch to mild or light molasses & use light brown sugar instead of dark.
I'm not a fan of pie but I love shoo-fly cake. I use ½ cup mild & ½ cup light molasses so it has less intense flavor. Below recipe is simple to make:
SHOO-FLY CAKE
4 cups flour
2 cups light brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 cups boiling water
1 cup molasses
2 teaspoons baking soda
1. Work flour, sugar, & butter into fine crumbs with fingers or pastry mixer. Set aside 1½ cups of crumbs for topping.
2. Mix boiling water, molasses, & baking soda together.
3. Add crumbs & stir until batter is very thin but still a bit lumpy.
4. Pour into greased & floured 9"x13" cake pan & sprinkle with crumbs that were set aside. (Don't not press crumbs into batter below.)
5. Bake at 350°F for 35 minutes.
Pennsylvania Dutch/Amish recipe you would probably love is Chocolate Whoopie Pies.
I made a trip to Pennsylvania for work one time and brought one home on an airplane that I bought at an Amish country store. I almost got mugged. The flight attendant had to put it up in the flight deck area to protect it. My mother and father were in heaven when I walked in the door....lol
You already figured out the trick. It goes Perfect with Coffee! One modification I do is I make it using a large size muffin pan to get many small "tart" size pies. It reduces the very sweet filling ratio while increasing the pie crust ratio. More inline with the taste buds of adults. The way you "spilled" filling on the crust was interesting since I learned to make it by purposefully brushing the filling on the crust to give it that candy like coating while that bit of "burned" flavor enhances the coffee. On a side note. Extra pie crust pieces can be given to Elana so she can make into small cute shapes and baked along side like a cookie. Place one on top of her small serving to have her own special treat that she made all by herself!
13:47 That "Mummy, more," was absolutely precious.
You can bake the leftover strips of pie crust after sprinkling with cinnamon and sugar. This is how we were kept out of the pie until it cooled when I was a kid.
Yes such a fun childhood memory for me. So good!
Absolutely!
You brought back a long lost memory. Now I am craving…..
I thought back to my childhood, I would love to find a set of child size baking items, My nieces had their own child size rolling pin, pie pans etc, if she had those she could make her own crust from the left over pieces, little sugar and cinnamon sprinkle and into the oven for a few minutes.
Best part as a kid
Thanks- needed to be noted even though it’s probably known
Mrs. H, use your hands as little as possible when making a pie crust. The heat from your hands melts the butter that you want to keep in chunk. Also, use a spatula to scrap of that butter cutter you were using to incorporate the butter into the flour, again to keep the butter cold. Finally use a marble cutting board that you chilled in the freezer when working the dough and if you don't have a marble cutting board then put whatever board you have in the freezer to keep the butter cold. It is all about keeping that butter in small pieces instead of it turning into a liquid, so you get a pie crust that is light and flakey with great layers from the butter as it cooks.
P.S. This also applies to making any puff pastry and or crescent rollsm you don't want the butter to melt before cooking.
Thank you for the tips.
Toddler H has gotten quite chatty in this video. So cute and love the Greetings and hand smack
“Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
Makes your eyes light up
Your tummy say "Howdy."
Love that song!
Mrs. H, you're too hard on yourself! Not everyone can make a good pie crust! And you have such an adorable, smart helper in h, and are giving her not only moments to treasure, but a start on being a good chef herself! Oh, and FYI, a little tip on what my mother used to do with leftover pie crust-she'd sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on it (to your taste) then stick it in the oven until it was baked. SOOO good! I think that was my favorite part of her baking a pie.
I recommend that you only use 1/4 cup light molasses and 1/4 cup dark molasses and 1/2 cup boiling water. For the crumb topping I'd recommend light brown sugar instead of dark. Also the crumb should look like a bunch of weird colored peas. Also if you want a lighter crust, halfway through the baking process wrap a strip of foil around the crust edges.
🎵🎶 "Shoo fly don't bother me" 🎶🎵
Children's song now days.
Originally from1895 Panama.
Shoofly pie is a bit of an acquired taste. As a kid I thought it was gross (rather like I felt about another PA Dutch specialty, sauerkraut and pork) but somewhere around the time I became a mom, I suddenly realized how great it is. My sister used to drive through Lancaster often on her way to visit friends in Phila. and she'd always stop at Shady Maples (a great PA Dutch run smorgasbord.) and pick up a shoofly pie for her and I to share. She'd baked them from time to time, but Shady Maples is the best. Alas, she passed on December 9, so there will be no more of that. She also saw to it that i got my sauerkraut and pork on New Year's (PA Dutch guarantee for health and prosperity in the coming year!) but my nephew stepped up and brought me a takeout container with sauerkraut, pork, mashed potatoes and a dumpling. YUM!
Somehow your crumb topping merged completely into the pie filling. Did it have a somewhat burned taste to it? That topping should end up almost like a very thin cake layer on top. I don't drink coffee but it goes darned well with a cup of good strong tea. :)
Elana's amazing. I"m with others who said that her little "Greetings!" and the slap was too adorable for words. She was a total scene stealer. Don't ever work with kids or animals, isn't what they say?
My Goodness Baby H is growing up SO FAST!!🥰😊
Oh my days! Elana saying Greetings and the hand slap tickled so much. I even laughed out loud! She is becoming such a Pro! It was sweet to see her helping mummy out. truly made my day. Good job Elana, well done! xx
I can't believe Elana is going to be 2 years old in 12 days, I loved hearing her talking... she is so smart!! When my son Buddy turned 2 years old, a friend of mine bought him a t-shirt that said "I'm 2 years old and there's nothing YOU can do about it!" That shirt fit him well... in many ways... lol! Happy new year H family.... I enjoy watching your little helper in the kitchen... so cute! 😊❤😊❤😊❤
Happy New Year Theresa and Bart.
Just a couple tips:
Spray your measuring cup with cooking spray before putting the treacle in it. Should make it come out more easily
Use the hot water to clean the rest of the treacle from the cup so it doesn't go to waste 😊
Aw Elana saying" greetings" how adorable ❤😊!
I predict Elana will grow up to be a world renouned food critic !!!
The "butter cutter" is called a pastry blender.
Elana is talking so well since your trip here. She's growing up fast.
Shoofly Pie is forever linked with the other dessert of Apple Pan Dowdy thanks Dinah Shore singing the classic song named Shoofly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy. What a vintage slice of America song like these desserts are.
Incredible!
I grew up in Brooklyn, and as a kid, our family visited the Pennsylvania Dutch/Amish area now and then for a weekend. It’s the Amish who made this pie famous, and I loved it. Haven’t had it in decades.
To my knowledge, you can’t really find this pie outside of Amish communities in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.
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And apple pie dowdy...Cali in the house
@joanneth4909 Northern or So Cali? Cheers from Palm Springs 🌴 😊!
I am American and have never had this pie but it looks delicious! Elana is such a beautiful and bright little girl, she makes me smile!!
I grew up my whole life surrounded by the Amish in the Lancaster area of PA. Love a good shoefly pie! (Although I moved when I married 3 yr ago, Im still surrounded by Amish just not the touristy Amish country that Lancaster is.) *You are right when you did your pie research.*There are two kinds of shoefly & the difference is the construction of the bottom part of the pie. Some recipes will tell you it's a "wet" bottom shoefly pie or a "dry" bottom shoefly pie. The best ones are the "wet" ones because the dry ones really do end up tasting a bit too dry and not gooey like a shoefly should be. :)
Let’s see Mr H 🤣🤣🤣
Very sweet for sure ..try molasses cookies seeing how you have it in the house already. They are good on a cold soggy day . ❤❤❤
Yeah molasses cookies are better than the pie.
I love the fact that you are teaching your daughter as you make the video
I had Shoo Fly Pie several years ago in my home state of Illinois. My parents and I were in a small Amish town where we stopped to have lunch, and one of the dessert choices was Shoo Fly Pie. I wanted to try it, so I did and it was very good!
Ah....so adorable. My daughter is now 28 but I fondly remember those younger days. The years will evaporate quickly. Remember them.
OHH!! Shoofly . . . The very definition of 'stick/sweet'. I hear it is best in Amish country but of course anyone can make it. Guder Daag H's
My mom always took the left over crust pieces, rolled them out and cut into squares. Put sugar and cinnamon on them and backed them golden brown. Best part of the pie.
Love how this show turned into a lovely family group show. Pennsylvania is a beautiful place to visit
OMG!!! I can't EVEN with Elana talking so well!!! I love how you've got her in the kitchen and that she loves it. I'm not a fan of Shoofly Pie. I like molasses but not THAT much. Well done!
Traditionally a breakfast dish served with coffee. What a way to live
Amish here [Maryland] make wet bottom with molasses on bottom and a lighter color crumb on top. It may be because they use light brown sugar in their recipe.
The crumb didn't work as I expected it too. Think I maybe made it too fine, or might be the sugar.
Watching the little one and her mam cook together kinda pulled at the old heart strings. I remember making lasagna when the kids were small, used to let them make one of their own with the left over ingredients...Great Video, thank you for sharing!!!
Grease your measuring cup and then put in the sticky stuff (honey or molasses, etc) and it will come out much easier. You are such a good mum and Elana is so cute. How old is she?
Or use spray oil like Pam.
Haha! Your daughter is absolutely adorable 👍
I have never had shoo fly pie, though I have heard of. A lovely pie, my favorite, is Lemon Chess. It has about 2 tablespoons of cornmeal which helps thicken and gives an interesting texture. The rest is sugar, eggs, and lemon juice. It is super rich, and to me perfect. I only make it about twice a year, because it is so rich.
This episode was adorable and I love how Elana helped bake today.
Elana is such a beautiful, precious baby girl!
Mrs. H.....would love to see you make a Buttermilk Pie amd/or a Chess Pie.
Both are so yummy 😋
Looking forward to today's live session. I 'm not sure how you will like Shoofly pie. Some people really enjoy it and others are not keen on it. It's very sweet.
"Greetings!"
WV here. Used to live in Pennsylvania. My Dad really liked that Shoo Fly Pie. Used to stop and get it at those Flea markets or Farmer’s markets. He used to try to get me to eat it. Alana is so cute!
Hi to the H’es and family, shouting out from Maryland! I have never tasted shoofly pie even though Maryland is right next to the State of Pennsylvania. It’s okay to not like something guys without an apology, you’re not going to like everything you try😊. I love that Elana is really developing her vocabulary and becoming more vocal.❤❤👋🏽🇺🇸
Baby H is growing up so fast! 😀
Toddler H...
I have it every time I go to Amish Country here in Ohio....I think it's good and enjoy it at least once a year or so.
It was so cute how Alana gathered all the dough and figured out how to roll it together.
Howdy from Arizona. Mrs H you are doing a great job !! Keep up the great work
Oh man close up with the ice cream - made my mouth water!
Thanks!
Thank you 🙏 ❤️
When I have made this pie before, it always seemed to come out too dry. I used my mother's recipe, and she always made it better than I could on my own. What you have made looks a lot like my mother's recipe, but your recipe has more spices in it. Your recipe looks really good.
From Oakland California to the Brits. Shoofly pie is extremely Southern. Ice cream makes it like you're not eating fried sugar.
Wow...I cannot believe how much Baby H has grown since the last video. WOW! It must be the American foods making her grow?😅
I love how Mrs. H was reading off the ingredients and Elana wanted to put the pastry inside and with out missing a beat..."but not that though".☺️ So cute together in the kitchen.💖
I grew up near Lancaster, Pa and ate Pa Dutch cooking all my life. My ancestors were the first Mennonites to come to America, my family was not Mennonite though, they broke away from it probably about 100 years ago or more. But old habits die hard and we retained a lot of the traditions. I love Shoo Fly Pie and made a few myself but I can't say I ever saw one that dark and the crumbs on top should be crumbly and just a light brown. I hope you can visit Pennsylvania some day, the food there is quite different than what you'll find in the rest of the country, it's my personal favorite!
Elana's intro is about as epic and cute as an intro can be!
Elana's well started on YouTubing *and* baking! Brava! And look at you, Mrs. H. You've gone and turned into a pie baker on us. 😁 Remember how nervous you were the first time? Your cooking episodes remind me of my mom and I together in the kitchen more and more. It's so much fun to watch you and Elana doing the same. ❤ She'll remember these the rest of her life.
I think shoofly pie would be much too sweet for me, too, but it was great to see it made. I've never seen one except in pictures. Got a kick out of you enjoying cutting in the butter. Good tools make things easier. Re tools, I agree with another commenter; now we have to get you a proper American rolling pin! A good hardwood one that rotates on a metal shaft, using ball bearings, with handles that aren't fixed in place. Your hands grip the handles steady and only the *pin* rotates. Much, much easier for applying pressure. Piecrusts, cookies, dough - for anything you roll out. Plus Elana will have fun spinning it. 😂
My mother’s family is Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch), so I’ve definitely had shoofly pie. It’s not my favorite, but I’m not really a pie person anyway. Your daughter is a great helper!
I live one hour from the Amish Pennsylvania Dutch. I see them at the local farmers market. They make a lot of really good things but shoo fly pie is not one of my favorite! ❤🇺🇸🙏🏻👍🏻
I'm about an hour from Sinking Valley where there's a large Amish community. We go there to buy fresh produce and other stuff. We also have them come to our property and do some work when we need.
Its like Little H is growing up overnight nearly. Kids at that age develop so fast.
I love watching Elana cooking with you. You’re such a good and patient Mom. She’s a lucky little girl.
Love your channel! Cheers and thank you from Oklahoma!!
She's talking! She'll be running your videos next!
Elana is hilarious 😅
West Texas in the room 👍
Wonderful video that made me cry remembering my wife teaching my daughter to bake forty years ago.
I was born & raised in Southwestern Pa & grew up eating my mom’s shoofly pie. She always made the wet bottom version (that’s what she called it). I really like how patient you are with Elana, she’s so adorable.
I make a hybrid of shoofly and pecan pies because I like the molasses nip of the former and the crunchy-chewy nuts of the later. I generally use praline pecans which are much, much sweeter and less bitter. Pecan pie with bitter nuts is a turn off to many. I think most commercial pecan pies are too focused on corn syrup and brown sugar while molasses is a much deeper, darker complex sugar. I top mine with ice cream and believe it or not mint and peppermint ice creams are pretty darn incredible with the hybrid pies.
Yay you for trying all these recipes!
Elana is adorable, more so everyday. 🥰
I’m from Illinois, I’ve heard of Shoofly Pie, of course, but I don’t recall ever trying it.
When my grandmother passed away I was 15. I inherited her butter cutter, it is awesome! It broke when I was in college and I couldn’t rest until I found another. I’m glad you have one.
I love watching you work with Elana! She is in great hands with you guys, thank you for letting her help so she can learn ❤
I have made it twice, very old fashioned pie.
I can’t wait!!
I grew up in western PA where there were some Amish communities and farms but ill just say that I rarely saw a shoefly pie, even in restraunts. I would have to say that in my experience the most abundant homemade pies you would find would be apple or cherry. Ive never even had the opportunity to try a shoefly pie but it looks yummy, perhaps its just more prevelant on the other side of mountains towards the east. Alana is so cute and talking so well, my favorite ages of my kids were those years from 2 to 4 yrs old. They are just so curious about everything, and the way their eyes light up when seeing or experiencing something new....treasured memories.
Shoo fly pie is actually an adaptation of classic treacle tart in a different and larger form. The filling is mostly molasses or what you call black treacle. In Florida the hummingbird cake is the choice dessert. Basically the idea is that it’s so sweet that it attracts hummingbirds. Shoo fly pie is kinda the same as it’s supposed to attract flies which you shoo away. It actually doesn’t happen that way but it’s fun to think that it does.
I always cover the edges of my crust with the foil before I put it in oven. I do this even on lower temperatures.
My mother's side of the family is from York, Pennsylvania next to Amish country and we would always have shoo-fly pie when we visited our grandparents.
Oh how I love watching you and your daughter cooking together. It so reminds me of doing the same with my own daughter at that age as well as myself with both my mother and grandmother. If you make another pie crust, take those little extra scraps that Little Bit is playing with and roll them out with her to make a nice size extra piece. Spread butter on it and then sprinkle it with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Run a pizza cutter or take a knife and cut that into strips, give a little twist to the strips and put on a baking sheet. They will bake up nice and when done will be golden and crunchy with that sweet cinnamon goodness. You little one will love spreading everything out onto her own bits and making her own treat while you do the main.
Pennsylvanian here. I live this pie but haven't had it in years.
This is great. My granny would give us the pie crust trimmings and let us put sugar/cinnamon/butter or whatever we wanted and while baking the pie she'd put those on a cookie sheet so we'd have little strips of pie cracklings
OMG, Elana's Greetings was hilarious. The pie looked great, excellent job. Another great video. You guys rock.
Wow, Mrs.H, you can sure cook!
Some vanilla ice cream would be a nice addition
3 or 4 centuries ago it probably had a Dutch or German name that sounded like Shoofly. And just became Shoo Fly as English became the main language of the region.
Mrs. H... I showed Bart this video before dinner and I said to him.... "Mrs. H would be a GREAT Pampered Chef consultant, she's a natural at doing these Cooking with H videos!" He agreed... Bart and I used to be Pampered Chef consultants from 1999 until about 2002. He loved doing the cooking demonstrations (he used to be a chef before he started having a lot of medical issues), and I did all of the paperwork taking the orders and working with the lady who hosted the show in her home. Too bad they don't have Pampered Chef over there, but I believe you have enough on your hands! Keep up the great cooking videos, and perhaps someday in the future... you can compete against Gordon Ramsey some day! 😊❤😊❤😊
Mrs. H is a fantastic cook! I don't think I've ever had Shoo Fly pie. If it's not your thing, it probably wouldn't be mine either. It probably has great history though.
Great job as usual.Mrs.H. its wonderful to see you using the butter cutter.I remember the hesitation when you first started.Try rolling it like you would if you were rolling out a fingerprint.
Someone should send the H family one of our american rolling pins. Might be easier to make American dishes that way since they're shaped differently (thicker/bulkier) and the middle bit can rotate separate to the handles on some of them making rolling less of a chore.
Yes! There's nothing like an American rolling pin mounted on ball bearings for pie crusts. No fancy one you fill with ice, or made from marble, or without handles, whatever. You can apply much more pressure, easily roll at different angles, and not handle the dough nearly so much. If no one's going to get one for her, maybe we need get together and take up a collection! 😄
(One of the the worst-looking pie crusts I've ever seen was on some chef's UA-cam channel in the last few years. Anyone on either side of my family would've been ashamed to serve it. And this was a pro? Pfft.)
We always ate this at breakfast with a nice coffee or glass of milk
Looks delicious! Great job Mrs. H. Elana is such a precious little girl. I just love seeing her grow. Love your channel. Fairly new here - a couple months. Sending best wishes from New York State.
The gadget being used to mix the butter and flour is called a pastry blender. It is better than using your fingers because you want the butter to remain cold for as long as possible and using your hands will cause the butter to melt quicker. Having the butter cold as long as possible helps with the flakiness of the piecrust.
You're such a good mom!
Hooray! Thank you for trying one of my favorite pies. My Mom (RIP) use to make it for us and I love it. We had it for breakfast. It is an acquired taste and I haven’t had any that was as good as my Moms 😂.
You are becoming quite the chef. Good job ❤
One of my methods of incorporating butter into flour is to freeze the butter the use a cheese grater. I also use some vegetable shortening that I chill along with the butter when making biscuits.
Central Texas here