Golden Barrel Baking Mixes
The Story of the Shoo-Fly Pie
When the early settlers came to North America, they brought with them such staples as flour, brown sugar, molasses, salt, shortening, and spices---a limited selection of items to create a shoo-fly pie. By filling a pie crust with a crumb and liquid mixture, they created a three-layer pie with a gooey bottom, cake-like middle, and a crumb topping. Baked and left to cool outside, these pies not only garnered rousing approval from the settlers, but a few flies buzzed around, too, giving this native East Coast dish its name.
