JD Harvey<p>Case in point, <a href="https://rva.party/tags/ShooflyPie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShooflyPie</span></a>.</p><p>Online recipes present essentially a definitive version, dissolving baking soda in hot water, then adding to a molasses mix.</p><p>A version I found in the “Seems Like I Done It Thisway,” a collection assembled by an Oklahoma Home Ec teacher, had a version using hot coffee.</p><p>This matters because when cooking a meal, of course a farm kitchen will have hot, black coffee on hand, not necessarily hot water. (Think pre-plumbing.) Unlike water, coffee adds flavor, too.</p><p>2/3</p>