In a past Kraft Foods magazine I saw a recipe for a mock apple pie, it was totally intriguing. Instead of apples you use RITZ crackers. I know strange....but it totally does. I made it on Sunday with the intention of taking it to Life Group, but it wasn't done. I shared it with some neighbors just to prove that it did turn out. It looked and tastes just like an apple pie. It was delicious and it makes a great conversation piece.
I also read this on the internet while googling for the recipe and thought it was pretty interesting.....
The recipe -- or one very much like it -- was invented around 1852 by a group of pioneer women for their children who missed the apple pie they'd had "back east." In Helen Evans Brown's West Coast Cookbook, she quotes Mrs. B. C. Whiting's How We Cook In Los Angeles (1894), "The deception was most complete and readily accepted. Apples at this early date were a dollar a pound, and we young people all craved a piece of Mother's apple pie to appease our homesick feelings." The recipe was referred to as "California Pioneer Apple Pie, 1852", and the crackers used at that time were "soda crackers" which were mixed with brown sugar, water and citrus acid and cinnamon.
After Ritz crackers were created in the early 1930's a recipe for Mock Apple Pie began appearing on the box. Apples were once again expensive and homemakers in those years were once again able to use crackers in order to give their children a taste of apple pie.
After Ritz crackers were created in the early 1930's a recipe for Mock Apple Pie began appearing on the box. Apples were once again expensive and homemakers in those years were once again able to use crackers in order to give their children a taste of apple pie.
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That is so interesting! May have to give that a try!
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