Snickerdoodles - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 c. shortening (part butter or margarine)
    1 1/2 c. sugar
    2 eggs
    2 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
    2 tsp. cream of tartar
    1 tsp. baking soda
    1/4 tsp. salt
    2 Tbsp. sugar
    2 tsp. cinnamon
    Flaky Pastry (recipe follows) or pastry for 2-crust pie
    1 c. sugar
    1/4 c. flour
    1 tsp. cinnamon
    1/2 tsp. allspice
    5 medium apples, cored, peeled (if desired) and sliced thin (about 3 1/2 c.)
    1 (16 oz.) can pitted tart red cherries, drained
    2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
Preparation
    Roll out 2/3 pastry; fit into 9-inch pie plate.
    Mix well sugar, flour, cinnamon and allspice.
    Toss with apples.
    Layer 1/3 apple mixture, then 1/3 cherries in pastry-lined pan.
    Repeat twice.
    Dot with butter.
    Roll out remaining pastry; place on top of filling.
    Trim edges and flute rim; cut vents.
    Can be frozen at this point.

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