Recipe - Country Molasses Pie

Three fourths cup Flour
One half cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Butter
One fourth cup Molasses
One fourth cup Water, boiling
One fourth teaspoon Baking soda
*pastry

Mix the first 3 ingredients together, using the hands, and pinching mixture
until very fine. Add the water to the molasses and soda and beat until this
is foamy and rises. Pour this into a pie pan lined with pastry (a deep pan
is preferable) and taking a spoon, mix the above crumbs well into the
molasses filling. Bake at 325F for 30 minutes. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch
Cook Book Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.

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