How to Make an Apricot Pie and See The World Based on How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman By Nicholas, Kelly, Emma, Amelia, and Justin in Ms. Mottola’s Library Class.

Making an apricot 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 train to China. Find a farm and gather some wheat. An armful or two will do. The walls of the Forbidden City are made of sticky rice and egg whites.

Take a helicopter to Ireland and locate a chicken. Bring the chicken with you. There’s less chance of breaking the egg that way. On Easter they light a lot of candles in church.

Take a boat to Iceland and make the acquaintance of a cow. Bring the whole cow with you for the freshest possible results. In Iceland, people live longer than other people in other countries.

Take a jet to Turkey. Walk to the nearest sugar beet farm. Introduce yourself to everyone. Then, go into the field and pick some sugar beets. Most of Turkey’s people have jobs in farming and ranching. Cotton, tobacco, fruit, and nuts are some of Turkey’s largest crops.

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

Wait a minute! Aren’t you forgetting something? What about the apricots? Have the pilot drop you off in Bulgaria. When Bulgarians shake their heads side to side it means yes, and when they nod it mean no.

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

Remember that apricot 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 Roop Bulgaria by Kristin Van Cleaf Culturegrams Database Iceland by Kristin van Cleaf Ireland by Kathleen W. Deady Turkey by Kristin Van Cleaf