Mock Apple Pie

8 ingredients
8 steps

Ingredients

  • pastry for double crust 9-inch pie
  • 36 Ritz crackers
  • 2 c. water
  • 2 c. sugar
  • 2 tsp. cream of tartar
  • 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
  • butter or margarine
  • cinnamon to taste

Directions

  1. 1
    Roll out pastry for bottom crust and fit into 9-inch pie pan. Break Ritz crackers coarsely into crust.
  2. 2
    Combine water, sugar and cream of tartar in a saucepan and boil gently for 15 minutes.
  3. 3
    Add lemon juice and rind.
  4. 4
    Cool.
  5. 5
    Pour syrup over crackers.
  6. 6
    Dot generously with butter or margarine and sprinkle with cinnamon. Cover with top crust, trimming and fluting edging together.
  7. 7
    Cut slits in top crust.
  8. 8
    Bake in a 425° oven for 30 to 35 minutes until crust is crisp and golden.

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