As popular as Shoo Fly Pie is in the Coal Region and Pennsylvania Dutch country, say, “Shoo Fly Pie” and the majority of people seem […]
Sweet Things
Pennsylvania Dutch Wet-Bottom Shoofly Pie I
If you ask any tourist to Pennsylvania Dutch country what food they most associate with the area, chances are high they will answer, “Shoofly Pie!” […]
Spanish Bar Cake
Every Friday evening during my childhood days in The Coal Region, my parents and I loaded up into the Buick and headed to “the next […]
Royal Mazurek (Polish Easter Cake)
Mazurek, also known as mazurka, is a flat Polish cake made with a shortbread style dough and topped with any combination of almond paste, preserves, […]
Traditional Ukrainian Babka
Babka is a sweet, leavened bread created from a rich dough made for Easter Sunday throughout Slavic cuisines including Ukrainian and Polish. Traditionally the practice of […]
Traditional Amish Whoopie Pies
Sometimes a taste, sound, scent, or memory tightly ties two places or things together in your life in a way you’d least expect. Such is […]