How to Make an Almond Pie and See The World Based on How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman By Grace, Amanda, Louis, Christina, and Alex in Ms. Mottola’s Library Class

Making an almond 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 horse to Bulgaria. Find a farm and gather some wheat. An armful or two will do. Bulgaria’s capital city is Sofia.

Take a helicopter to Austria and locate a chicken. Bring the chicken with you. There’s less chance of breaking the egg that way. My country makes the candy PEZ!

Take a helicopter to Iceland. and make the acquaintance of a cow. Bring the whole cow with you for the freshest possible results. Every Icelander is required by the law to learn to swim.

Take a plane to Brazil. Walk to the nearest sugar plantation. Introduce yourself to everyone. Then, go into the field and cut some stalks of sugar. Brazil has the Amazon River.

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

Wait a minute! Aren’t you forgetting something? What about the almonds? Have the pilot drop you off in Morocco. The capital of my country is Rabat and there are baboons.

Get to the nearest almond tree. Pick a few almonds. 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 almonds, mix the ingredients, and bake the pie. While the pie is cooling, invite some friends over to share it with you.

Remember that almond 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 Austria By Kristin van Cleaf Brazil By Kate A. Furlong Bulgaria By Kristin van Cleaf Culturegrams Database Iceland By Kristin van Cleaf Morocco By Bob Italia