Posted on 02/14/2022 2:03:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
- This viral recipe might be the weirdest, grossest, most bizarre thing we've ever tried on this show. Water pie is a 100-year-old recipe that claims you can make an entire pie out of little more than water, flour, and sugar. But can this 1920s recipe really live up to our modern pie standards? To find out, we're going to try this crazy thing.
So this water pie actually goes back to the Great Depression, where supposedly, home chefs didn't have enough ingredients to make it out of anything else. But it's been blowing up on TikTok lately, thanks to creators like Dylan Hollis who have been really trying the recipe in the modern era. And this is actually really crazy because I did some digging into my own history, and as it turns out, I'm related to the founder of water pie, James "Hydration" Thompson. And my great, great, great, grandfather actually invented this thing after toiling away and reworking the recipe for years, and years, and years.
So let's see if I can do the family name proud and give this thing a go. So first, we're going to preheat our oven to 400 degrees, and toss a deep dish pie crust into our pie pan. Then were going to pour 1 and 1/2 cups of water right into the pie crust, and then we're going to add a whole cup of sugar mixed with 4 tablespoons of flour, and sprinkle it right on top of the water until it turns into this weird, watery, gooey mixture thing. After that, we're going to add 5 tablespoons of butter, chopped up, and just drop it right on top of the thing. Then shove this bad boy into the oven and get ready to cook it
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It’s sort of a pecan pie without pecans. Or eggs. Or vanilla.
But vegetable oil IS a kind of shortening. Without it, your crust would be more ‘bread’ than crust.
(I want to make a Shoofly Pie. My husband also told me about a Shoofly Cake that his mom used to make...)
When we were kids living in the country and without much to eat (the neighbors would give my parents unpasteurized milk because we were so poor) we would make a “soft” drink out of vinegar and sugar and water and drink it on hot days. I don’t know how we came up with that recipe.
vinegar is kind of a substitute for lemon, it makes sense
Ah! Makes sense now.
I grew up loving shoofly pie, but I baked it only a few times myself. It was very easy to make, but I don’t think I have the recipe, anymore.
There are lots of them on the Internet. Just do a search.
There isn't enough sugar or maple syrup or anything that could make it palatable.
Looks like a custard pie...
Is called vomit.
If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs for breakfast if we had some eggs.
Water pie
Interesting.
I tried this recipe last year. Its really not bad.
>>If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs for breakfast if we had some eggs.<<
I often make druthers for dinner:
If I had my druthers, 1’d ruther have a steak, but since I ain’t got a steak, I’d ruther have this than nutthin!
Chopped potatoes; chopped onions; chopped green pepper; chopped bacon, if you’ve got it, all fried together with bacon grease in a cast iron skillet. Topped with fried eggs.
“This isn’t that different from Shoofly Pie.”
Exactly what I was thinking.
Pudding cake and vinegar cake are pretty good
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7834/hot-fudge-pudding-cake-ii/
https://www.food.com/recipe/one-pan-chocolate-snack-cake-313457
Hot Fudge Pudding Cake is a favorite in our house. Great recipe for children.
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