Exploring Pennsylvania Cuisine

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"Almost Famous" Primanti Brothers

The "Almost Famous" Primanti Brothers (The Pitts-burger) a must have when visiting Pittsburgh, Pa

Shoofly Pie

Shoo-fly pie has been described as a crumb cake baked in a pie crust. The primary ingredients of the filling are molasses, brown sugar, and water. Serving the cake in pie crust made it easier for people to eat it with their hands in the 19th century.

It comes in two different versions: wet-bottom and dry-bottom. The dry-bottom version is baked until fully set and results in a more cake-like consistency throughout. The wet-bottom version is set like cake at the top where it was mixed in with the crumbs, but the very bottom is a stickier, gooier custard-like consistency.

Shoofly pie originated as a crustless molasses cake called "Centennial Cake" in 1876, created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; it is strongly associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch community, and later evolved into the pie form we know today by adding a crust, likely around the 1880s, making it easier to eat without utensils; the name "shoofly" is thought to refer to the sticky molasses topping attracting flies, prompting the need to "shoo" them away.

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