NikitaShoofly Pie started out as a cake (1876) in Philadelphia to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence but was transformed into a pie (1880s), so you can.....*get this* hold it with one hand and eat it alongside your coffee! No forks. No plates. Just like eating a piece of pizza pie! I also tend to eat my leftover pumpkin pie in the same fashion for breakfast the day after Thanksgiving. It allows me to still be mobile yet get all my sugar calories in at the start of my day. LOL! Now, my observations from this experience of making a dish from the 1800s are: 1. Boy, were they missing out on processed sugar! (It's not very sweet.) 2. Mixing the baking soda into the molasses/water mix took me back to grade school science class. (It fizzes.) 3. If you like gingerbread cookies, you'll like this pie. (I don't care for gingerbread cookies.) The real win from this experience was I made my first *EVER* pie crust from scratch and crimped the edges. The back story here is that store-bought pie crust is too easy to not use each time I make a pie, and I've failed miserably in times past when trying to create my own. The crust was always crumbly and would not roll out. So frustration got the best of me, and I have relied on the good ol' Pillsbury dough boy. BUT NOT TODAY! I. AM. SPARTACUS!!! Enjoy the pics and recipe! Georgia
JenJen's taking a pass this week. She's a busy wife and mother and that role always comes first. AmySo this was a fun challenge. Looking up and researching recipes tends to be a learning experience. Not just about the food but about history and culture etc. The recipe I chose is kind of cool. Well the dish itself isn't necessarily cool but the source, to me, was cool. Emily Dickinson, it turns was not only a poet but quite the baker. A good chunk of her papers are archived ( and digitized) at Amherst College. This includes several handwritten recipes ( https://lithub.com/now-you-too-can-bake-like-emily-dickinson-this-holiday-season/). The problem that I ran into was the lack of instructions. But it's mainly common sense tried and true methods. There are several food blogs that have made her recipes so a quick search will do the trick. We had a wintery few days here in Oklahoma (temps below zero- total bullshit) so that makes baking weather. I went with Emily's coconut cake. I altered it to be more diabetic friendly. This cake is a 1/2 mix so it's to be baked in a loaf pan. I chose to use my bubba cake pan so that I could use my wee cake stand. Cold weather, cake and coffee or tea. Emily Dickinson's Coconut Cake Emily was born on December 10, 1830 and died on May 15, 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts. I find it interesting that Miss Dickinson made what is traditionally a southern cake. While attempts were made on my part to pin down the history of coconut cake I found these two articles that may pique your interest: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/11/07/501032393/make-america-bake-again-a-history-of-cake-in-the-u-s https://civilwartalk.com/threads/coconut-cake-pies.80559/ I chose Emily Dickinson's recipe for several reasons. I like coconut cakes, the recipe was from the 1800's and I like poetry. March is Women's History month And April is National Poetry Month Emily Dickinson was a magnificent poet and an all around rad woman who (apparently) was a hell of a baker. What a fun challenge this week. Exploring food from a different time.
Until next week, Nikita, Georgia, Jen and Amy
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