Stock is a flavoured liquid preparation. It forms the basis of many dishes, particularly soups and sauces. Making stocks involves simmering animal bones or meat, seafood, or vegetables in water or wine, adding mirepoix or other aromatics for more flavour.
Whoopie pies are like the best parts of a cupcake squished into one delicious sandwich. That would be the top of the cupcake and the frosting, of course.
Their most famous variation on the theme is a pie called shoofly: essentially a crumb-topped filling within a pie shell, concocted from molasses, sugar, shortening and egg. The most intriguing aspect of shoofly pie is its history. Where did it come from and how did it get it get that potentially disgusting name?