Wet Bottom Shoofly Pie

• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 cup unsulphured molasses
• 3/4 cup boiling water
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup unbleached flour
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon ginger
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons room temperature butter
• 1 9-inch pie shell, unbaked

1. Preheat oven to 400u0b0F. Beat the egg yolk in a small bowl. Blend in the molasses. Add the boiling water once you have dissolved the soda in it. Set aside.
2. Combine dry ingredients. Add butter and work into crumbs with your fingers. Pour liquid into pastry crust and evenly sprinkle crumbs on top.
3. Bake for 10 minutes at 400u0b0F, then lower heat to 325u0b0F and bake for another 30 minutes. NOTE: If I had an 8-inch pie plate, I think it would be a better fit for the recipe, but this is how my mother wrote it out.

egg yolk, molasses, boiling water, baking soda, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, ground cloves, brown sugar, salt, butter, pie shell

Taken from food52.com/recipes/4151-wet-bottom-shoofly-pie (may not work)