It lacks a top crust and is ooey sweet. What better invitation is there for a ravenous insect to join the celebration It should be called molasses pie, but since it has a open structure that attracts flies that must be shooed away, it has the amusing name shoofly. Shoofly pie is believed to have been invented by Pennsylvania Dutch people and may be a direct ancestor of Centennial Cake, which was first served at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the first Worlds Fair.
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