Comments on: Pennsylvania Shoo Fly Cake

By: 50th birthday cake

50th birthday cake — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:06:01 +0000

the almost amazing cake recipe keep it up

By: Sarah Geise

Sarah Geise — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:48:56 +0000

In reply to Laura Sedor. Thank you Laura

By: Laura Sedor

Laura Sedor — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 03:01:10 +0000

Almost identical to my family’s recipe! The recipe my mom gave me didn’t have a bake time, so I followed the directions from here. Pennsylvania Shoofly cake is the best!

By: Sarah Geise

Sarah Geise — Sat, 25 May 2019 22:08:18 +0000

In reply to Ruprekha. Thank you Ruprekha.

By: Ruprekha

Ruprekha — Sat, 25 May 2019 12:42:38 +0000

PENNSYLVANIA SHOO FLY CAKE by Bunny’s Warm Oven was very fascinating. I will definitely try the recipe.

By: Sarah Geise

Sarah Geise — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 20:07:21 +0000

In reply to Barbara Erskine. Thank you Barbara.

By: Barbara Erskine

Barbara Erskine — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:34:41 +0000

Hi Bunny, Thank you very much for this recipe for shoo fly cake. I was raised in Philadelphia and we went to Harleysville every Sunday of my childhood for dinner at Barb’s n Bab’s Amish restaurant. I crave this food! Although I live in Italy now, I can get the ingredients. i am thrilled to be able to make these foods the way I remember them!

By: Mary Malone

Mary Malone — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 12:26:41 +0000

In reply to Janyne. I would have loved to have been in the kitchen with your grandma Janyne. That's how most good home cooks did it back then. They didn't have recipes, they did it so often they had a feel for it. There was a wonderful woman named Louise that lived up the hill from me here in Ky. She cooked the same way. Her daughter in law said she was the best cook she ever had the pleasure of being with in the kitchen. She would feed the farm hands lunch everyday, work in the tobacco barn with her husband with two little boys in tow and take care of the garden and kept the cleanest house I've ever been in. I guess they just didn't have time to think about writing stuff down, they just did it. In her later years she decided she wanted to learn how to paint. You should have seen the pictures she painted Janye, all this amazing talent from a Kentucky woman living in the country. She passed away in the Spring, I miss her so much. She was a woman, a mother and wife in every sense of the word.

By: Janyne

Janyne — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 06:13:08 +0000

Bunny,
Thank you so much for posting these wonderful old Amish family treasures. So many of these recipes are similar to the delicious foods my grandmother used to make when I was growing up. As the oldest of 14 children, my grandmother had to start cooking family meals before she could even read or write. Over the years several family members tried to put her wonderful cooking treasures into written form, but grandma moved around the kitchen like a whirlwind and didn’t measure anything. She didn’t even own measuring cups or measuring spoons. So when someone asked for a recipe, grandma would usually just mumble oh it isn’t anything, just a bit of this and that, and then get herself busy because she didn’t know how to answer, she didn’t know how much of much of each ingredient she had used. Unfortunately, when she passed away, most of her special recipes were lost, so it is really nice to see similar recipes show up on your blog!

Thanks Bunny!

By: Mary Malone

Mary Malone — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:26:04 +0000

In reply to Send Cake to India. Thank you so much!