Shoofly Pie

Shoofly pie is an American cake ( coffee cake ), whose invention is attributed to the 19th century, the German -born Pennsylvania Dutch. It is a baked in a round shape tall cake, which mainly consists of flour, butter and brown sugar or molasses, and sprinkles and is considered a variant of a classic German Streuselkuchens. There are now Shoofly pie with fruit fillings. Traditionally, there are two variants: a preparation with "wet bottom" ( mixed are filling and sprinkles ) ( soft filling and sprinkles as a support ) and one with "dry bottom", the latter being also eaten at the Pennsylvania Dutch for breakfast. For coffee, the cake is today usually served still warm with whipped cream.

Some culture historians consider this cake for a modification of the Centennial cake, known in Philadelphia since 1876 and is prepared similarly. Others consider the Rivelkuche ( crumb cake ) of the German immigrants as a model, which is occupied as a " crumb cake " in Pennsylvania since the 1860s. The name Shooefly cake first appeared in 1890 in a manuscript in Pennsylvania on a printed recipe but only 1926.

The term "to shoo flies" means in English " shoo fly "; The name probably alludes to the fact that the sweet cakes attracted the flies in the household, which therefore had to be scared all the time.

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• John F. Mariani: The Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, 1999, p 293
• Andrew F. Smith: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, Oxford 2004, Article German American Food

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