Old Fashioned Molasses Pie Recipes

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar, and beat well. Beat in the eggs. Add flour, buttermilk, and vanilla; beat until smooth
• Pour filling into pie shell, and bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C); bake for an additional 45 minutes, or until set.
• Cool at room temperature, then chill. When serving, drizzle individual servings of pie with molasses for that unbeatable combination of flavors!

Steps:

• Place pie crusts in 9 inch pie pans. Chill the crusts approximately 1 hour before use.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, stir together the baking soda and warm water. Mix in the molasses and stir until foamy. Transfer the mixture to the pie crusts.
• In a medium bowl, mix together flour, sugar and baking soda. Use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour mixture until very fine crumbs have formed. Sprinkle the crumbs over the molasses mixture in the pie crusts.
• Bake in the preheated oven 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and continue baking 35 minutes, or until crust is lightly browned and the filling has set.

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat butter and sugar until crumbly, about 2 minutes. Beat in egg. Beat in molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with water, mixing well after each addition., Transfer to a 9-in. square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares; garnish with whipped topping.

Steps:

• Mix the 4 first ingredients in a bowl(flour to butter). With a pastry cutter or 2 knives, add butter until you have a rough texture.
• In another bowl, mix baking soda and warm water. Add molasses, egg, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Beat well.
• Spread 1/3 of the rough mixture (step 1) in the crust, then pour the second mixture of molasses (step 2). Put the remaining rough mixture (step 1) on the pie. Cook on the lowest rack of oven, at 350 F from 45 to 50 minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Steps:

• Mix the molasses, water, lemon juice and salt in a saucepan.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add the sliced apples and simmer until the apples are tender.
• remove the apples from the syrup.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan, and blend in the flour.
• Pour this into the hot syrup and simmer, stirring constantly until the syrup is smooth and thick.
• Fold the apples into the syrup.
• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• Make Pastry for 2 crust 9 inch pie by mixing shortening, salt, and flour with a fork until crumbly.
• Add 5 tablespoons water and mix well, adding more water if too dry.
• Form into a ball.
• Roll out half of it and line the pie pan, letting it hang over the edge about 1 inch.
• Fold the extra pastry over toward the middle and flute the edges with your fingers for a built up rim.
• Roll out the rest of the pastry, and cut into narrow strips for a lattice top.
• Spoon the apple syrup mixture into the pastry lined pan.
• Arrange 7 or 8 strips over the top.
• trim the ends, moisten, and press into the rim.
• Lay more strips over them.
• leaving a diamond shaped spaces, and trimming, moistening and pressing into the edge like the first ones.
• Bake the pie at 425 degrees for 30 minutes.