Food in books: the pumpkin pie in Little Town on the Prairie

A Thanksgiving visit to the US west coast leads Kate Young to discover the pleasure of baking the pumpkin pie from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s children’s classic – and of family reunions around food

By Kate Young for The Little Library Café, part of the Guardian Books Network

Ma was going to make a mammoth pumpkin pie and the largest milkpan full of baked beans, to take to the New England Supper.

There was no school on Thanksgiving Day. There was no Thanksgiving dinner either. It was a queer, blank day, full of anxious watching of the pie and beans and of waiting for the evening.

Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder

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