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shoofly pie
noun[ C or U ]
US(alsoshoo-fly pie)uk /ˌʃuː.flaɪ ˈpaɪ/ us /ˌʃuː.flaɪ ˈpaɪ/
a sweet food consisting of pastry filled with molasses(= a thick, dark brown liquid that is produced during the process of making sugar) and sugar, covered in a mixture of flour, butter, and sugar rubbed together into small pieces, and baked :
I tried shoofly pie for the first time yesterday.
There was a wide selection of baked goods, from shoofly pies to cookies.
Shoofly pie is a classic Pennsylvania dessert.
The dessert was a sickly-sweet shoo-fly pie.
I figured that I could manage to eat a slice of shoofly pie.
Have you never had shoofly pie before?
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