Depression Apple Pie

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Created at a time when fresh food was both scarce and expensive. It uses chemical reactions to simulate a fresh apple pie without the use of any apples with both taste and texture.

 

Ingredients

1 – 9 inch double  pie crust

2 cups water

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar

25 table water crackers

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

2 tablespoons butter

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 f

Place water in a saucepan bring to boil,  in a bowl mix ingredients reserving crackers. add ingredients to the boiling water and dissolve. then add in the crackers 1 at a time, boiling for 2 -3 minutes ( do not stir it )

After 2- 3 minutes remove from heat

Pour the mixture into the un-baked pie crust, sprinkle cinnamon  over the crackers and dot the top with butter. layer the top with pie crust and cut vents into it, seal the edges by pinching.

Bake in the oven for 30 minutes and let cool completely before serving.

 

No Bake Peanut Butter Cookie

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Ingredients

1 /2  cup corn syrup

1/2 cup sugar

2 cups crushed corn flakes

1 cup peanut butter

Directions

Combine the sugar and the corn syrup into a saucepan, heat on low till hot but do not boil. Once heated remove from the fire and stir in the peanut butter mixing it well then stir in the corn flakes again mixing well.

Spoon onto wax paper let cool till hardened.