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  • From: "Alliums" <garlicgrower AT green-logic.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Shoofly Pie -- with sorghum
  • Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:53:43 -0500

Hi, Folks!

 

Shawnee Flowerfarmer wrote

<<I think that if either recipe could be adapted to use sorghum syrup that this would make a unique way to market sorghum in bouquets...give away samples of cake/pie next to bunches of sorghum in late summer.  I may also try this to market the sorghum plants that I am selling as ornamentals this spring. >>

 

I figured if sorghum was how the pie was originally made, there would probably be some old recipes that still listed it as an ingredient. My favorite meta-search engine http://vivisimo.com found these:

 

From Texas!

http://www.texascook.com/rody/13.html

 

PA Dutch

http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/lasalle/stretch/seventh/Recipes%20Page/Shoe%20Fly%20Pie.htm

 

Most of the PA Dutch sites say that if you can get your hands on sorghum, you should just use it instead of molasses in any shoofly recipe as when folks were making the stuff themselves, it was always sorghum they were using instead of cane sugar molasses.  So, I’d say experiment and when you find a recipe you really like, push it to push the sorghum!  (I knew we’d get back on topic eventually! ;-D)

 

Dorene

 

Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator

St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth

 

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