I know what your asking"Why is it called a pie?" To answer this question of why "pie" instead of "cake", it is probably because colonists baked their cakes in pie tins as they did not own cake pans.
I used the recipe on Mennonite Girls Can Cook but there were some gaps in that recipe so I had to look at other recipes when I was in the middle of my cooking thinking "what do I do now". When I googled this recipe these were some that I perused to fill in those gaps: Joy of Baking, Epicurious.
Overall it was time consuming making it from scratch, it was good but amazingly enough not too sweet (which I like).
