Chemical Apple Pie (no Apple Apple Pie)

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie
• 2 cups water
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 25 buttery round crackers
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons butter

Recipe

• preheat oven to 450 degrees f (225 degrees c).
• roll out pastry and set aside. bring water to a boil in a large saucepan.
• in a small bowl mix together sugar and cream of tartar. add mixture to boiling water. stir, then add crackers, one at a time. boil for 3 minutes, but do not stir.
• pour cracker mixture into pastry-lined pie pan. sprinkle crackers with cinnamon and dot with butter or margarine. cover with top pastry. seal edges and cut steam vents in top.
• bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, until crust is golden brown. may need to cover top pastry partway through baking to prevent overbrowning.