How to Make a Pecan Pie and See The World

Based on How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman

By Andrew, Daniel, Paige, Brandon, and Jack in Ms. Mottola’s Library Class.

Making a pecan pie is really very easy. First, get all of the ingredients at the market. Mix them well, bake,

and serve.

Unless of course, the market is closed.

In that case, go home and pack a suitcase. Take a plane to China. Find a farm and gather some wheat. An armful or two will do.

Children like table tennis in China.

Take a race car to Kenya and locate a chicken. Bring the chicken with you. There’s less chance of

breaking the egg that way. The size of Kenya is 224,961 square miles.

Take a jet to Belgium and make the acquaintance of a cow. Bring the whole cow with you for the

freshest possible results. Belgium celebrates Christmas on December 6th.

Take a donkey to Guatemala. Walk to the nearest sugar plantation. Introduce yourself to everyone . Then, go into the

field and cut some stalks of sugar. The national bird of Guatemala is the Resplendent Quetzal.

Better fly home. You don’t want the ingredients to spoil.

Wait a minute! Aren’t you forgetting something? What about the pecans? Have the pilot drop you off in Chile.

Chileans use llamas to carry their goods.

Get to the nearest pecan farm. Pick a few pecans. Give one to the chicken, one to the cow, and eat one yourself. Hurry home, stopping at Jones Beach to pick up a jar of salty seawater.

Now all you have to do is mill the wheat into flour, evaporate the seawater from the salt, boil the sugar, persuade the chicken to lay an egg, milk the cow, churn the milk into butter, slice the pecans, mix the ingredients, and bake the pie. While the pie is cooling, invite some friends over to share it with you.

Remember that pecan pie tastes delicious topped with vanilla ice cream, which you can get at the market. But if the market happens to be closed…

YOU CAN EAT IT PLAIN!

Our Sources

A Visit to China by Peter and Connie RoopBelgium by Kristin Van CleafChile by Jennifer A. MillerCulturegrams DatabaseGuatemala by Shannon KnudsonKenya by Michael Dahl