Case in point, #ShooflyPie.

Online recipes present essentially a definitive version, dissolving baking soda in hot water, then adding to a molasses mix.

A version I found in the “Seems Like I Done It Thisway,” a collection assembled by an Oklahoma Home Ec teacher, had a version using hot coffee.

This matters because when cooking a meal, of course a farm kitchen will have hot, black coffee on hand, not necessarily hot water. (Think pre-plumbing.) Unlike water, coffee adds flavor, too.

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The best part of Thanksgiving…

#pie #sweetpotatopie #shooflypie #thanksgiving