but on the other hand, apples was something my grandmother always canned,
sauced jellied nd butterred no matter how many were left from last year or
how many came on the trees... when she really got too many then some was
given as christmas gifts, one of the best gifts in the world was her dark
apple butter, Lee
"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> On 10/16/2011 12:42 PM, Pennyaline wrote:
>> On 10/16/2011 10:41 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>>>
>>> Though I have never personally used it, I don't remember any point in my
>>> 65 years of life on this planet when canned apple pie filling was not
>>> available at the grocery store. Why would anyone eat cracker pie?
>>>
>>
>> Evidently, mock apple pie was actually created during the great American
>> transcontinental migration, when foodstuffs like crackers and other
>> dried goods were in plentiful supply because they traveled better and
>> stored longer with less fuss. I don't doubt that the covered wagon and
>> handcart pioneers of the nineteenth century would have had terrible
>> difficulty packing and transporting fresh apples, and the opportunity to
>> pick/forage fresh apples during the journey would have been a rare
>> treat. Dried apples were probably brought along, but those were likely a
>> treat too, saved for a special occasion and not an ordinary
>> get-em-fed-just-to-live-another-day meal.
>
>
> So you are saying there were Ritz crackers in the middle 1800's? From what
> I have learned of the wagon trains of that era, it was hard enough to bake
> a loaf of bread, no less a pie! I think those pioneers subsisted on what
> their men could hunt, their women could forage and whatever dried
> foodstuffs they could bring with them. If you had a recipe for mock apple
> pie made with dried beans, I'd be more inclined to believe it. :-)
>
>> Yes, I'm sure that throughout most of the 20th canned pie fillings were
>> available in stores. But that doesn't mean they were affordable.
>>
>> Further, your sixty five years of life on this planet don't necessarily
>> include the Depression at this point, do they?
>>
>
> Nope. I'm of the first class of baby boomers, 1946. My mom and dad were
> depression babies. Neither of their families could have afforded
> store-bought crackers.
>
> --
> Janet Wilder
> Way-the-heck-south Texas
> Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.