Ritz Mock Apple Pie Ii

Total Time: 50 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 (9 inch) pie shells
• 2 cups water
• 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 lemon, rind of, grated
• 36 ritz crackers
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• butter or margarine
• cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 roll out bottom crust of pastry and fit into 9-inch pie plate. break ritz crackers coarsely into pastry-lined plate. combine water, sugar and cream of tartar in saucepan, boil gently for 15 minutes.
• 2 add lemon juice and rind.
• 3 cool.
• 4 pour this syrup over crackers, dot generously with butter or margarine and sprinkle with cinnamon.
• 5 cover with top crust. trim and flute edges together.
• 6 cut slits in top crust to let steam escape. bake in a hot oven (425 f) 30 to 35 minutes, until crust is crisp and golden.
• 7 serve warm.
• 8 cut into 6 to 8 slices.
• 9 -- found lurking on a ritz crackers box.