Shoofly pie is now known as a Pennsylvania Dutch favorite, but it got there thanks to immigration and, just maybe, an assist ...

In 1999, the first year the Pennsylvania Farm Show held a shoofly pie competition, Debra Martin, of Conestoga, won first place and Doris Kreider, of Bird-In-Hand, was second.

The shoofly pie, food historian William Woys Weaver writes, was a marriage of the old and new, as the Pennsylvania Dutch introduced a traditional molasses crumb cake to the Anglo-American pie shell.

This sweet treat is a staple of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine, but where exactly did this recipe — and name — come from?

In Dutch Haven’s glory days, in the 1950s and ’60s, Time magazine labeled its product “America’s best shoofly pie,” and a recipe appeared in a book titled “America’s 500 Original ...

DANVILLE, Pa. — We are celebrating Christmas Pennsylvania Dutch style! Shoofly Pie is delicious molasses flavored dessert that is prepared in many PA Dutch homes as a Christmas tradition. We ...

Born in Bethlehem, Pa., in 1913, my grandmother, Josephine Murray (nee Loos), learned how to bake from the women of her family and those in the surrounding Moravian community.

Shoofly pie is a Pennsylvania Dutch tradition that was adapted to celebrate the United States centennial in Philadelphia in 1876 and is more American than apple pie, enthusiasts say.

Previously, the oldest known recipe for shoo-fly pie was found in a source from Pennsylvania dated to about 1890. Boston-based food historian Mark H. Zanger, writing in the Oxford Encyclopedia of ...

Divide dough into 2 portions (note: recipe makes enough dough for 2 pie crusts). Roll out 1 portion on a lightly floured surface to a 10" round. Transfer to a 9"-diameter pie pan.