How to Make a Pumpkin Pie and See The World

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

By Erin, Aidan, Abigail, Annalise, and Madison in Ms. Mottola’s Library Class

Making a pumpkin 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 bike boatto Germany. Find a farm and gather some wheat. An armful or two

will do. I would get the wheat from the fairy tale castle.

Take a unicorn to Portugaland locate a chicken. Bring the chicken with you. There’s less chance of breaking the

egg that way. Portugal does celebrate Christmas but Santa Claus is not a big part of the Portuguese Christmas.

Take a plane to Japan and make the acquaintance of a cow. Bring the whole cow with you for the freshest possible results. Over a thousand years ago, the first Japanese emperor was Jimmu.

Take a bus to Ethiopia. Walk to the nearest sugar plantation. Introduce yourself to everyone . Then, go into the field and cut some stalks of sugar. In Ethiopia when people have kids their last names are

not the same as their parents. The child’s last name is the parent’s first name.

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

Wait a minute! Aren’t you forgetting something? What about the pumpkins? Have the pilot drop you off in India. The language they speak is Hindi.

Get to the nearest pumpkin patch. Pick a few pumpkins. 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 pumpkins, mix the

ingredients, and bake the pie. While the pie is cooling, invite some friends over to share it with you.

Remember that pumpkin 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!

Sources Used

Culturegrams DatabaseEthiopia By Tamara L. BrittonGermany By Bob ItaliaIndia By Bob ItaliaJapan By Tamara L. BrittonPortugal By Bob Italia