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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Shoofly Pie -- the history, the recipes!!!
  • Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:53:20 -0500

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:57:24 -0500, you wrote:

> The
>explanation that I always heard is that the PA Dutch love their pies, so
>Shoofly Pie was made in the winter as a breakfast dish when the fruit ran
>out. I always used this excuse to be able to eat apple pie at breakfast and
>the really scary thing is that my mother accepted this as a rational excuse
>for this behavior!

Apple pie for breakfast sounds good to me!

You know you're in Pennsylvania when.... restaurant menus
list both cottage cheese and apple butter under 'Choice of
Vegetables'.

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry




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