November 2009
5 posts
Shoo fly.
I didn’t bring any leftovers back to NY (drag), but while I was in PA, in the spirit of family, I did bake two shoo fly pies. Shoo fly is the most Pennsylvania Dutch food I know. I even bought the molasses from a PA farmer.
The first recipe I tried turned out to be the better pie, so that’s the one I’ll show here. If you’ve never had shoo fly, you must enter into this...
Tanis's Spinach Cake.
One of my favorite pastimes is sneaking into the Cookbook section of my local B&N and scribbling down a few of my favorite-sounding recipes to try at home later.
The last cookbook I disenfranchised (?) in this way was David Tanis’s A Platter of Figs, which I also almost bought that same day for $36 ridiculous dollars, so convinced was I that this cookbook would become a Bible in my...
