This Depression-era cake uses an unlikely alternative to apples.
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1850s Fake Apple Pie – Old Cookbook Show
Serious Mealtimes / Alexandra Penfold
It looks like apple pie. It smells like apple pie. It even tastes like apple pie but the secret to this Great Depression classic comes not from an orchard but from a box of crackers.
If you’ve bought Ritz crackers in the past seventy-five years you may have noticed their famous “fake apple pie” recipe printed on the back of the box. Born from the frugal ingenuity of the 1930s the pie became more popular during World War II when apples were expensive and in short supply. The trick to this pie is in the flavor. When you break buttery Ritz crackers into pieces and coat them with lemon and vanilla syrup then sprinkle them with cinnamon the resulting filling is similar in texture to a soft tender apple pie.
