shoofly

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As he carried chicken corn soup, horseradish and shoofly pie to his vehicle, Olivio recalled how the Amish people seemed less welcoming at his first Gordonville sale about 40 years ago.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2024

Surrounded today by its own mini-Beltway, the town that welcomed German dissenters in 1729, served briefly as the U.S. capital and put shoofly pie on the map is a bustling small city.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022

Then the bake-off round involves a dessert inspired by the Pennsylvania classic shoofly pie.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2021

We packed big tents on company streets around a chuck wagon where a massive man in comically wide blue kersey trousers served up cold cuts and shoofly pie.

From Salon • May 28, 2017

“We make butter and cheese. Bread and biscuits, jams and jellies. But we are especially famous for our molasses shoofly pie.”

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos