Found a weird fact about old cookbooks in a library in St. Louis

I was looking through some old community cookbooks from the 1930s at the St. Louis Public Library. One of them had a recipe for 'mock apple pie' that used crackers instead of apples because of a fruit shortage. I had no idea that was a real thing people did back then. Has anyone else come across a recipe that was totally shaped by its time like that?

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diana_king5d ago

Honestly, that sounds kind of genius (and desperate).

spencer_chen65d ago

Wait, crackers? They just put crackers in a pie crust and called it apple? That sounds like a crime against dessert. The 30s were a different time.