Definitions for shoofly pie
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
shoo′fly pie′(n.)
an open pie filled with a mixture of flour, butter, brown sugar, molasses, etc., and baked.
Category: Cooking
Origin of shoofly pie:
1930–35,Amer.; allegedly alluding to the attractiveness of the molasses to unwanted flies
Princeton's WordNet
shoofly pie(noun)
open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses
Wiktionary
shoofly pie(Noun)
A fluffy pie made from molasses, traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch
Origin: So-called because the molasses attract flies, which must be shooed away.
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