1. How to Make an Elderberry Pie and See The World Based on How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman By Luke, Nicholas, Jack, Tyler, and Brandon in Ms. Mottola’s Library Class

2. Making an elderberry pie is really very easy. First, get all of the ingredients at the market. Mix them well, bake, and serve.

3. Unless of course, the market is closed.

4. In that case, go home and pack a suitcase. Take a jet to Wales. Find a farm and gather some wheat. An armful or two will do. The population of people Wales is 2,946,200 people.

5. Take a helicopter to France and locate a chicken. Bring the chicken with you. There’s less chance of breaking the egg that way. In France, it’s not nice to put your hands on your lap during a meal.

6. Take a boat to Spain and make the acquaintance of a cow. Bring the whole cow with you for the freshest possible results. Instead of the tooth fairy, Spanish children put their teeth under their pillow at night and wait for Ratoncito Perez, the tooth mouse, to come and exchange it for a gift.

7. Take a boat to Kenya. Walk to the nearest sugar plantation. Introduce yourself to everyone. Then, go into the field and cut some stalks of sugar. Kenyans play soccer more than any other sport.

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

9. Wait a minute! Aren’t you forgetting something? What about the elderberries? Have the pilot drop you off in Canada. Canadians eat the most macaroni and cheese in the whole entire world.

10. Get to the nearest elderberry bush. Pick a few blueberries. 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.

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

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

13. YOU CAN EAT IT PLAIN!

14. Sources Used Canada By Christine Fournier Culturegrams Database France By Bob Italia Kenya By Bob Italia Spain By Kate A. Furlong Wales By Tamara L. Britton