Cracker Pie
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Cracker Pie is a simple pie with simple ingredients and it’s easily altered to suit whatever you have on hand. I like to use a can of drained fruit cocktail but it would also be good with a can of drained pineapple. I use saltine crackers but I’ve heard of other folks using Ritz type crackers. You could also add a little coconut to yours, or use dried fruit instead of canned without having to alter the recipe. When I got ready to make this today, I found I had everything I needed on hand, which is why old-fashioned pies like this have been favorites of home cooks for as long as stoves have been in kitchens.
Check out some of my other pie recipes like Water Pie, Frozen Turtle Pie, Apple Pie, Cherry Cream Cheese Pie, Fresh Strawberry Pie, and Caramel Banana Pie.
Ingredients You’ll Need to Make Cracker Pie:
Recipe Ingredients:
- A deep dish pie crust
- sugar
- eggs
- vanilla
- fruit cocktail
- chopped pecans (optional)
- saltine crackers
- baking powder
Helpful Kitchen Tools
How to Make Cracker Pie:
Prick your crust a few times with a fork and bake it in a 325 degree oven for ten minutes, or until very lightly browned.
Crush your crackers.
Place egg whites in a mixing bowl.
Beat this with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. You’ll know this has happened when you pull your beater up out of it and a peak of beaten egg white still sticks straight up where your beater was.
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These are my stiff egg whites, with my sugar and baking powder dumped on top of them.
Mix this again with an electric mixer until the sugar is well incorporated, about one minute.
Now dump your vanilla, pecans, and cracker crumbs on top…
Then dump your well drained fruit cocktail.
Using a spatula or big spoon or whatever you grab out of the draw first, stir all of that together really well by hand.
Pour into your baked pie crust.
Bake this at 325 for 20-25 minutes, or until lightly browned on top.
Like this.
Allow the cracker pie to cool completely before serving. This is wonderful as is or topped with whipped cream and a few chopped pecans.
Have a wonderful day and don’t forget to savor every moment of your life, just as you savor every bit of a piece of pie. That’s what it’s here for.
Ingredients
- 1 deep dish pie shell
- 16 saltine crackers crushed
- 15 ounce can fruit cocktail of your choice well drained
- 3 egg whites
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts optional
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
- Prick bottom of pie crust several times with a fork. Bake for 10 minutes in a 325 degree oven.
- While crust is baking, place egg whites in mixing bowl and beat until still peaks form. Add sugar and baking powder and beat again until sugar is well incorporated, about one minute more.
- Using a large spoon, gently fold in nuts, drained fruit, cracker crumbs, and vanilla until it is all well combined.
- Pour into baked pie crust. Bake at 325 for 20-25 minutes, or until lightly browned on top. Allow to cool completely before serving.
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Water Pie; Recipe from the Great Depression
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I have never heard about this pie , but it sounds intriguing enough to give it a try.
I hope you get the chance to try it soon!!
Christy, this looks like the perfect recipe to have for all those unexpected times you need a dessert! Not fussy…crust-no crust, fruit cocktail-peaches-pears-pineapple, walnuts-pecans, Ritz-Saltines…grab what you have and it will be spectacular! I’ve never had a pie like this before, but I’m looking forward to it!!
I hope you get to try it soon Susan!!
Oh so happy to see this recipe. My Aunt used to make it and then my sister and I haven’t seen this in years. We always referred to it as “Silly Pie” and did use the crushed pineapple instead of the fruit cocktail.
I am so glad you found it again Roxie!! I hope you get to try it soon, love to hear what you think.
My sweet mother-in-law that has passed away made this pie and did sometimes use Ritz crackers. I miss her and her pies.
I got a recipe like this from my mother-in-law. Using Ritz crackers and no pie crust,after baking, top this with cool-whip and peaches. One of my daughter’s requests this for her birthday. The mixture is made without the fruit cocktail.
I’ve seen similar recipes for this pie, but not with fruit and coconut. Your version sounds mighty tasty. You’re right… a picture of the baked pie cooling on your back porch would’ve been nice, but I just went ahead and took a picture of it in my head and it sure looked yummy!! By the way… Do you ever have a problem with the ‘Henrys’ getting into all the yummy things you cool outside? Jest wondrin’
I do have all of these ingredients on hand and I can’t wait to try this. It sounds so yummy!