We bought an Amish pie from a craft show once...No fruit just that gooey jell stuff...7 dollars for this horrible pie. Its a standing joke now in our family. NO AMISH pies!!!!

 

Yep...that's pretty much the standard around here too. The only people who stop to buy Amish baked goods are tourists.

 

HA HA HA HA

You fell victim to MARKETING!!!!

I always get a good laugh out of they mysticism and misinformation about "Amish" expressed by many, both on this board and in my life.

I hope you find a better pie next time. Speaking of that, I think it is time for my wife to make some pumpkin pie for us.

Jim

 

My wife takes two of her Amish girlfriends shopping. One makes and sells 3-500 pies every week. She buys her filling in 3 and 5 gallon pails.

She makes them with homemade filling for me though, as a bribe to keep "letting" my wife drive her to town. ;-)

 

All Amish means is that they are a member of an Amish church. Doesn't mean they can bake good pies

 

HA HA HA HA

You fell victim to MARKETING!!!!

I always get a good laugh out of they mysticism and misinformation about "Amish" expressed by many, both on this board and in my life.

I hope you find a better pie next time. Speaking of that, I think it is time for my wife to make some pumpkin pie for us.

Jim

Yes...everyone thinks they are so quaint and quiet. Ha! The ones who live around here are filthy and have so much family mess and drama, it's just unbelievable...AND they use crappy ingredients in their baked goods. I've been in the kitchen of my neighbor while she was baking and I warned my family to never eat anything that comes out of there.

 

In the spring we bought pies from the same people (I think they are actually Mennonite, they have a phone) which were wonderful and as close to Grandma's as could be without the lard in the crust. We have been customers of this family for years. I just can't believe they changed so much in a single summer. It didn't have anything to do with their marketing or advertising, dh recognized the family and knew they had good pies in the spring as they had over the past several years. Their pumpkin rolls used to be really good too. This year they were dry and had hardly any filling.

I've got apples. I'll have to buy some heavy cream and make some apple cream pie. Or maybe another apple pie using Winesap apples. Or maybe I'll have to pull out that blueberry pie recipe (which I know I still need to post) and get the blueberries, black raspberries and mulberries from out of the freezer and make a mixed berry pie.

 

In the spring we bought pies from the same people (I think they are actually Mennonite, they have a phone) which were wonderful and as close to Grandma's as could be without the lard in the crust.

Are we all talking about buying pie at the Amish bakery or just pie marketed as Amish at the grocery store? The Amish bakery is wonderful if Mom cooked it. If the younger girls made it, then it isn't as perfect as their mother's pies. And if you ask them, "Who baked this one?" they will tell you. They are honest because.... well.... because they are honest.

I don't believe anything I would read simply marketed as Amish unless I know it is from the Amish.

 

All Amish means is that they are a member of an Amish church. Doesn't mean they can bake good pies

BINGO!!!!!

Nor does it mean that they are they following:

Honest
Dirty
Stupid
Cheap
Rich
Organic
Dirty
Clean
Righteous
Teetotaler

The list goes on and on!

We LOVE many of our Amish neighbors, others we can not stand. They are just like everyone else in the USA with good and bad, sinners and saints.

Jim

 

My Dad grew up in the Amish country of Pennsylvania, and he has always said they as a group have a good sense of a penny. Not a criticism, just a reflection.

 

We do some shopping at a Mennonite grocery. The fillings I saw were pre-made. Anyone can stuff filling into a crust.

Not to thread drift too much, but DW has been noticing the Red Star yeast bricks they sell have been really inconsistent in baking and take about double the physical amount compared to the consumer yeast in mainstream stores?

 

I bought an Amish pie many years ago while I was in Philadelphia. The main reason I bought it was because I had never heard of it before. And, I have never seen one since.

It was called a "Sho-Fly Pie" or some such thing. I thought it was delicious. I'd buy one again if I could find one.

 

When I am near our local Amish Pie sale, I ask "Alma" to point out which pies she baked.

Her pies are always certain to be DELICIOUS!

 

Sorry, browser had me posting a totally unrelated post from a wildly different forum.

 

Since I don't live in Amish country, I can't comment on their pies. But for the best ever frozen pie, I don't think you can beat Marie Callender's Razzleberry. They are pricey and I only buy them when on sale, but they are full of berries, and even though the crust doesn't have lard, it's pretty flakey.

 

I bought an Amish pie many years ago while I was in Philadelphia. The main reason I bought it was because I had never heard of it before. And, I have never seen one since.

It was called a "Sho-Fly Pie" or some such thing. I thought it was delicious. I'd buy one again if I could find one.

There are ALWAYS Shoe-fly pies at our area sales!

 

There is a lady at the local farmer's market who sells her 8" pies for $13. They sell out every week.

Granted, they're really GOOD pies (full of fruit, best pastry I've tasted since my mom passed away), but I laugh when I hear of someone paying $7 for a pie. No wonder it's full of nothing but jelly -- how can you put fruit in a pie for that kind of money? A bag of frozen berries -- enough for a pie -- will put you back at LEAST $7. Picking them yourself shouldn't make much of a difference, you've still got to make your time worth it.

 

It's actually called a **** fly pie

 

We used to have a local IGA that sold Amish cheese and butter. Both kept good in the fridge for a long time and worked well into our daily menu. Now that the grocery is gone so is our local supply point. I'm not driving 30+ miles one way to purchase these products.

Back when I traveled for work I stopped at Cracker Barrell if I needed a bathroom break. While there I would usually buy a No Sugar Added Apple Pie and a couple loaves of salt-rising bread. It's been several years since I've bought these at Cracker Barrell but the apple pie tasted good to us. We used the bread for toasting and making breadcrumbs.

 

Amish in our area make apple pies and shoofly pies from scratch. Even when they have fresh fruit, they add Jello (yes, actual jello - or the generic brand available at our local Amish store) to the all the other pies for flavor and "jelliness." They contain very little fruit with mostly the jell stuff. They also make their pies thin; none of that big "mountain top" business. If fruit isn't available, they use the pre-made filling. They also use a mix for their crust so it's mealy, not flaky. I once took an Amish lady, who is known for her wonderful angelfood cakes, shopping. She bought several cases of angelfood cake mixes. And, she raises chickens and sells eggs!

Not to get too far off the subject but knowing how they eat their desserts will partially explain this problem. They sit down, put pretty-much everything (dessert included) on the plate and eat it all rapidly because it's necessary to get done and go back to work - at least around here. There's none of that getting a piece of pie and cup of coffee and sitting around talking, at the end of the meal. So, the pies are more a sweet bite at the end, often mixed with potatoes or whatever. Our ideas about meals being social times, even within the family, is a bit foreign to them.

 

BINGO!!!!!

Nor does it mean that they are they following:

Honest
Dirty
Stupid
Cheap
Rich
Organic
Dirty
Clean
Righteous
Teetotaler

The list goes on and on!

We LOVE many of our Amish neighbors, others we can not stand. They are just like everyone else in the USA with good and bad, sinners and saints.

Jim

An Amish man in my region went to prison for child molestation, and they've also been convicted of meth manufacture and running puppy mills. They're not as different from us as many of us might think.

That said, MOST of the time, they deliver as promised, again just like the rest of us.

 

It's actually called a **** fly pie

**** fly pie is made with molasses, and should not contain fruit or be fruit flavored. They're delicious!

 

I bought an Amish pie many years ago while I was in Philadelphia. The main reason I bought it was because I had never heard of it before. And, I have never seen one since.

It was called a "Sho-Fly Pie" or some such thing. I thought it was delicious. I'd buy one again if I could find one.

Here you go!

http://www.amishnews.com/amisharticles/shooflypie.htm

 

My Amish neighbors have a bake sale ever fri and sat. Their pies make me want to gag, literally. They are FULL of gel and have pretty much no fruit, just a slimy mess. Yuck.

 

Here you go!

http://www.amishnews.com/amisharticles/shooflypie.htm

Thanks, I'll pass this on to the "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer" but she's liable to put pecans in it!