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Reader234

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just found out I make Rhubarb pie the RIGHT way, all this time I keep experimenting because the rhubarb floats to the top, and the custard is at the bottom!! Now I know grandma did give me her special recipe!! DH doesnt get celery pie btw so if I make it i have to eat all alone!! Anyone game for pie??

Shoofly

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Shoofly Pie!

Please, tell me more

Reader234

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 07:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok Chess Pie is actually a Pecan Pie w/o the nuts, Shoofly pie is a famous in Penns. Dutch country (we're Hoosiers, near amish folk) it is like pecan pie, but is thickened by a sort of streusil, more like a cake than custard, (so it doesnt curdle!!)

According to the Joy of Cooking btw (I too love cookbooks!! *G)

1 c flour
2/3 c dark brown sugar
5 Table butter. Mush until crumbly

Beat in sep. bowl 1 C lt molasses
1 lg egg
1 teasp baking soda
Stir in 1 C boiling water,

Stir half of the crum mix into the molasses mixuture pour in crust Sprinkle with remaining crumb mix evenly over the top Bake for 10 min at 400 deg then reduce to 350 and bake until pie hs puffed around the sides and firm in center 20 - 30 min.

(now I had always eaten the "chess" pie, or pecan pie w/o the nuts and was told THAT was shoo fly pie, but I thought I'd check since you asked!!)

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Reader234....I gotta ask....southern or northern Indiana? Ya....Graber? :)

Reader234

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aus well I did grow up in the northern part of Indiana, but my family was Texan transplants!! (doing our family tree we go back 6 generations and we are still in Texas!! Lotta heart in TX!!) My daddy's side lived in Arkansas and Virginny, but moved north during the Great Depression.

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We know alot of Amish in So. IN, but were up near South Bend a couple of weekends ago. Beautiful places up around Rochester.....Hubby has family in Texas, LA and KY....mine were PA Dutch originally...So we cook of course more Mexican and Italian than anything! LOL :) I'm gonna try that Chess pie...it looks awesome...thanks!

Wcv63

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All my recipes either begin with the words "open a can of" or "tear off the plastic covering and place in microwave for"...

For the really special treats "Place order by phone and pick up at ______."

Shoofly

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Umm Yum! Nice and easy too.

My manners are better than my name and I will make my own.

Thanks; this is an interesting thread.

Bmh

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
IMAO...Wcv..sounds alot about my recipes........hmmmm

Sherbear

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's funny reading all this. I was raised in a Southern California. I was given southern food to eat. Greens and hamhocks, cornbread, pork chops and potato's. I was told I wouldn' know how to cook unless I knew how to cook 7 meals, make cornbread and a cake from scratch without looking at a book.

Hey I can cook!...LOL

Reader234

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aus, lots of Amish in North eastern IN. Goshen In, and Shipshewana, and I cant remember the name of the town that has a working tourist Amish town! Shipshewana IN is right off the tollway (I80 that goes thru OH and into Pa!!) has a HUGE flea market that many of the local Amish community sell baked goods, and work in the rest. there. They also have an Amish museum, with a wonderful movie... (hmmm suddenly turning into TMI!! lol can you guess I'm a teacher??!! lol!)

Avery

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have been downstairs making kentucky derby pie, I could not resist, I wish I could share it with you all!

Aus10

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Illinois has a working Amish Village as well...Rockhome Gardens in Arcola. Or is it Tuscola? Anyway It's a really nice day....and I picked up a favorite cookbook there too! I'm waiting to see other favorite quick receipies posted here, so we don't have to miss much BB! LOL

Reader234

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wc have you tried dump cake?

you open a box of yellow cake mix, dump in a pan, then you dump a can of Cherry Pie filling, and

(somebody here's got to know!! is it a stick of melted butter, because I was always told it was only good if it had a cup of sugar and a stick of butter in it!!)

You know Im gonna half to call my mom, but it passed her bedtime!! This is a recipe that we make on campouts in a dutch oven over a fire!! (you put it in a round cake pan, lower the pan in the ductch oven. Put a few coals under the dutch oven and a few coals on top and I have to ask my 17 yr old son how many coals = 25 degrees I think its one coal = 25 degrees!!)

Wcv63

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That sounds complicated Reader. :)

Drpepper

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 08:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Avery, I would love some. Reader234, if you like that type of dessert, get the Cake Doctor cookbook by Anne Byrn, that is what the whole book consist of.

Costacat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG Reader! I *love* dump cake! I haven't had it in years!! And Wcv, it's ever so much easier if you use the regular oven!

Drpepper, the Cake Doctor cookbook is the best cookbook in the world! For cakes, that is.

And speaking of pie filling... You can make a bunch of awesome muffins using a box of cake mix, a can of pie filling, and four eggs. Mix it all up and bake it. It's like a cross between a breakfast muffin and a cupcake... sweet but not too sweet. White cake mix and cherry pie filling is really yum!

Wcv63

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The regular oven? Ummm is that the thing next to the stove?

Izzywhat

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
About two weeks ago, Josh and Merritt were in the audience of a rerun of an Emeril Live Show. In one of the breaks they showed Josh clapping when they came back from commercial and in one of the breaks they showed Merritt clapping going to commercial. They were very quick shots and when I saw it I immediately knew it was Josh and recognized Merritt from her interview on BB3.

It was a rerun because I remember seeing it first last winter. The first time I saw it I didn't know who Josh and Merritt were, so it didn't phase me. The second time I understood why Josh usually takes over <or did> during a meal. To be in the Emeril Live audience a person is usually interested in cooking.

Weird how he just looked like another audience member and not the devil incarnate.

Bbdiva

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 09:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh love Emeril I have an Aunt in Nawlins she thinks I go there to see her but the truth is I go to gain 20 lbs at Nola....

And if Josh was at his show there just might be my number one reason to like him lol

Lurknomore

Monday, August 12, 2002 - 10:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I go away from the boards for a few hours and look at this FUN chat I'm missing! First you guys are SOOOO great with the purple rice! thanks!

Now you are on to something near and dear to my heart...Amish things :) Growing up my family used to vacation every year in Lancaster, PA. I went back 2 years ago for the first time in many years and had a BLAST.

I could never get a Shoo Fly Pie to taste as good as there, and after talking to some Amish folks and locals they said what they call molasses is different from we do (I guess it's more of a sugar syrup, not that dark, heavy stuff). I found a recipe that was supposed to be closer to Amish with just sugars, but some silly diet or lack of time always got in the way of me trying it. I'll have to dig around my recipes and see if I can find it.

I put recipes and counted cross stitch books in the same catagory. I have more than I could make in my lifetime, yet I keep buying more :) Come to think of it I haven't been doing much of either lately even pre-BB.

Car54

Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 04:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Aus10, I grew up about 15 miles from Rockome Gardens! The families from there used to come to our town to shop quite a bit, and some of the kids went to our schools! Wow, last thing I expected to read about in a BB thread!

Pagal

Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 04:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lurk! I live 30 minutes from Lancaster (less if it weren't for the dern buggies).

Bbdive! I was in New Orleans last month and had the most fantastic meal at NOLA!

Costacat! No liquids in that cupcake recipe?

Aus! Would love to have your sweet potato pie recipe too!

Lurknomore

Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 05:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG I'm late...have a 10 am appt in Boston so need to be in my car soon but of course I had to check in here first. Pagal I'm so jealous. It is soooo good for my soul up there. Between the rolling hills, the memories of childhood, and some of the best shopping I have ever found (fighting words for me). I wanna go backkkkkkkkkk!!!!

I love those dern buggies too (though especially enjoy the big roads that have buggy lanes LOL. Got lost last trip and I pulled over a buggy for directions. Was so cute, me in my red convertable, top down of course, talking to the guy in his buggy. I think we both enjoyed it :) Good directions too hehe. Ok must move. Traffic is gonna be bad. See you all here later. I'm sure all sort of BIG BB things will happen in my brief abscence...they usually do!

Aus10

Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 06:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Car54....so nice to meet another "Illini"! The funny thing about Rockhome....when you go there now and are coming up I-57 you see a sign that says arts, crafts, Amish Village......then an big brand new.....outlet mall! LOL Times they are a changing!