Orange-Pineapple Upside-Down
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) “I can’t belive it! I won!”
Belinda Myers kissed her blue
ribbon and shed a few tears of joy
when she captured fijst place for
her pineapple upside down cake
out of 37 entries.
Baked in the shape of a pine
apple, the winning entry had lots
of pineapple and a touch of grat
ed orange rind.
Belinda, York, said she had
been trying for a first-place win
ever since the contest began
about five years ago.
Her name is well known in
Farm Show competitions, where
she gamers top prizes every year.
She is a previous first place win
ner in apple pie and in Herhey’s
cocoa cake competition. Her next
goal is to take first place in shoof
ty pie contest, where she has been
a second-place winner.
The pineapple upside down
cake baking contest was con
ducted in the Family Living Cen
ter at the Pennsylvania Farm
Show.
Wet-Bottom Shoofly Pie Captures $5OO Prize
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) “I never made a shoofly
pie until a week before Farm
Show,” Debra Ann Gruber, Sla
tedale, confessed. “But everyday
for the last week, I just about
burned the house down making
one after another.”
Debra said she tried “a little bit
of this and a little bit of that to
come up with her prize-winning
recipe.
Ironically, she didn’t taste the
pie that won. She said, “It just
looked prettier than the others 1
tried.”
The appealing pie had a deep
wet bottom with a double layer of
crumbs dotted with tiny cut-out
heart shapes from glazed pie
crust.
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Myers takes home a premium
check for $5OO for her efforts.
The other winners included sec
ond-prize winner Connie Shuff,
also of York County, who took
home $lOO in premium money;
Deb Walker of Adams County in
third, who won $5O; June Peters
of Erie County in fourth; and
Jean Kite of Jefferson County
who took fifth. The fourth and
fifth place winners did not re
ceive a premium, but did get a
ribbon for their cakes.
The cakes were judged on con
sistency, flavor, moisture, texture,
aroma, and creativity.
The Pineapple upside-down
cake contest is unique in that en
trants do not have to win at a
county fair or any other competi
tion. Anyone may enter this con
test and join in the fun.
Here is the winning recipe:
Orange-Pineapple
Upside-Down Cake
Pan glaze:
6 tablespoons butter
'A cup plus 2 tablespoons
brown sugar
Shoofly pie is an old-time mo
lasses classic, one where the in
gredients are cheap, usually on
hand, and the pie itself doesn’t
need refrigeration.
The top three pies received
cash prizes from Good Foods,
Inc. Third place was awarded
$lOO, second $2OO, and first place
$5OO.
Second place went to Debra
Martin, Lancaster County; third
to David Dissinger, Dauphin
County; fourth to Cindy Thom
asson, Lancaster County; and
fifth to Kathy Witmer, ..Cumber
land County.
Here is the winning recipe:
Wet Bottom Shoofly Pie
Crumbs:
1 cup cake flour
1 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons shortening
Dash cinnamon
Filling:
1 egg (beaten)
Vi cup “Golden Barrel” molas
ses (Blackstrap)
V* cup com syrup
/i cup table syrup
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 A cup boiling water
1 teaspoon vanilla
Topping:
1 cup chopped pecans
Glaze: 1 egg white, slightly beat
en with 1 tablespoon cold water
Sugar Coating:
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
mixed with 1 teaspoon
brown sugar
To make the crumbs: Mix to
judges
evalu
ated 40
pies on
overall
appear
anc e ,
consis
tency,
flavor,
moist-
ness,
texture,
and
aroma.
se?
'A cup plus 2 tablespoons gran
ulated sugar
6 whole pineapple slices
(drained, cut in half)
12 Maraschino Cherries
Cake Batter:
'A cup butter
1 egg
VA cup plus 2 tablespoons
flour
Vi teaspoon salt
'A cup pineapple juice
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
A cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
'A teaspoon pineapple extract
VA teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons milk
Rolled fondant tinted green
(cut into long leaves)
Melt the 6 tablespoons butter
in a small bowl. Add brown sugar
and granulated sugars. Stir well.
Place into the bottom of a
10x7 7 /«x2-inch oval pan. Lay
pineapple slices in strips to repre
sent a pineapple. Place a cherry
in each center of slices. Set aside.
In large mixing bowl, beat the
butter, 'A cup plus 2 tablespoons
sugar, 1 egg, and pineapple ex
tract. Beat until light and fluffy.
gether the flour and brown sugar
and shortening. Add the cinna
mon, work into crumbs, and set
aside.
To make the flliing: Dissolve
baking soda- into the boiling
water. Add the molasses, vanilla,
beaten egg, com syrup, and table
syrup.
Reserve 1 cup of the crumbs
for the top of the pie. Stir remain
ing crumbs with the liquid mix
ture. Bake at 375 degrees for 20
minutes and top with chopped
pecans. Next, put reserved crum
bs on top of pecans (so pecans
don’t bum). Brush glaze on edge
of crust and sprinkle sugar coat
ing on top of glazed crust. Bake
again at 350 for 35 minutes, or
until done. Remove from oven
and top with additional batch of
crumb mixture. Brush egg white
and place glaze, sugar, and edible
sugar on edge.
Pie Crust:
3 cups flour
I'/j cups shortening
1 teaspoon salt
1 beaten egg
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons vinegar
Makes 3 crusts. Use
8-inch pie tins. For decora-
tions: Cut hearts out of
rolled dough, put on greas-
ed cookie sheet, brush with
egg white glaze and sug-
ared mixture. Bake at 375
degrees for 8 minutes.
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Cake Impresses Judges
Measure out flour, baking pow
der, and salt. Add dry ingredients
alternatively to creamed mixture
with milk and pineapple juice.
Mix until smooth. Fold in rind.
Pour mixture gently over pre-
Best Apple Pie Winners
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that only a two-point difference
separated the first and second
placings.
Vicki Becker’s Topsy Turvy
Apple Pie placed third. A
Reinhold’s resident, Vicki placed
first at New Holland Farmers
Fair to qualify for the state com
petition.
“It’s an upside-down pie,”
Vicki said. It is baked with the
crust on top, flipped upside down
when finished, resulting in a
layer of pecans and glaze cover
ing the finished pie.
Barbara Noye, Altoona, en
tered Southern Ambrosia Apple
Pie, which had placed first at
Hollidaysburg Community Farm
Show and fourth place at state.
The mixture of cream cheese,
pecan, sugar, and apples boiled
over in the oven, so Barbara
didn’t think she had a chance at
winning. But the flavor im
pressed the judges. Unfortunate
ly, Barbara is diabetic, and said
she can’t even sample the pies
she makes.
Cindy Bruce, West Chester,
placed fifth in the apple pie com
petition and, later that afternoon,
third in the Greatest Chocolate
Cake contest.
Five judges analyzed each
entry and scored them on texture,
flavor, appearance, and other ele
ments.
Judging takes three hours.
During the wait, participants
often compare techniques. An
drea Witmer, Mifflinburg, said
that she uses five different apple
varieties in her pies.
It was the first state Farm
Show that Pam John, Berwick,
attended. She took first place in
her three pie entries at the
Bloomsburg Fair. She expressed
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amazement at the variety and
creativity of the entries.
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recipe is listed below:
Mix flour, salt, and Crisco with
mixer. Add beaten egg mixed
with water, flavors, and vinegar.
Divide dough into 3 pieces. Using
a rolling pin, roll dough out on a
floured board into a 12-inch cir
cle. Fit dough circle into a 9-inch
pie dish. Trim excess and flute
edge. This recipe makes 3 pie
shells.
Pie Filling:
7-9 apples
9 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons margarine
Mix flour and 3 tablespoons
sugar in bottom of a pie shell. Ar
range finely sliced apples in shell.
Sprinkle with remaining sugar
and cinnamon. Dot with marga
rine. Top with crumbs and bake
at 375 degrees for 1 hour or until
apples are soft. Remove from
oven and top pie with Vi cup
chopped pecans. When pie has
cooled, drizzle Vi cup caramel
apple dip over pie.
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‘/i cup flour
'/«cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter-flavored
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Dash of salt
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