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A Poor Man’s Perfect Pie Recipe

published by Earth Mother on Jul 29, 2010

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Ingredients:

  • 1 8 inch unbaked pie shell
  • 1/2 cup fine bread crumbs
  • 3/4 cup of flour
  • 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vinegar
  • 1/8 teaspoon ginger
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 6 teaspoons butter
  • 3/4 cup boiling water
  • 1/2 teaspoon soda
  • 1/2 cup molasses
  • 2 well beaten eggs

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Combine the bread crumbs, flour, baking powder, sugar and spices.  Cut in the butter until crumbling.  Dissolve soda in boiling water.  combine with molasses and eggs.  Alternate layers of crumb mix and molasses mix in the pie shell.  End/top with the crumb mix.  Bake @ 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Cut down to 350 degrees and bake about 30 minutes or until it gets firm.

8 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. # 1 by drelayaraja
    July 29th, 2010 at 12:29 pm #

    This is great share. This is so simple and yet rich.

  2. # 2 by pearl2010
    July 29th, 2010 at 4:41 pm #

    Sounds Good.Thanks for this.

  3. # 3 by wonder
    July 29th, 2010 at 10:50 pm #

    A good recipe too try out.

  4. # 4 by Likha
    July 30th, 2010 at 5:07 am #

    Some resourcefulness will see us through. Good recipe.

  5. # 5 by giftarist
    July 30th, 2010 at 6:24 pm #

    Good recipe. Will try.

  6. # 6 by Dee Gold
    August 6th, 2010 at 9:31 pm #

    I’ll try this

  7. # 7 by Meg Smith
    September 29th, 2010 at 9:20 am #

    I\’ll have to pick up some molasses and make this. Sounds delicious.

  8. # 8 by A Bromley
    January 31st, 2011 at 8:05 pm #

    Good recipe. My grandmother used to make one very similar to this when I was a kid. We called it Jes-pie. Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to try this one.

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