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By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake.

A family in the Old Country hopes to recreate the miracle of the first Hanukkah by making a small jar of cooking oil last long enough to make a treat for each of the eight nights.

Four friends called The Know-Nothings, because they don't know very much, decide to make lunch.

A girl feasts on the wonderful raspberry jam that she and her family have made and remembers that she loves it because they made it together.

Pascual, a boy blessed by angels at his birth, receives divine help when the Franciscan monks make him their cook.

Six-year-old Ana looks forward to growing older and being allowed more responsibility in making the tamales for the family's Christmas celebrations.

Henry and Eve, having ignored their father's warning, are kidnapped by monsters who eat whiney children, but while increasing numbers of monsters argue over how to prepare them, the siblings begin to play nicely. Includes a recipe for cucumber sandwiches.

Tallulah the cat and her friends experiment with a new recipe for pancakes.

When a hungry ghost threatens to gobble up a plump little boy, the boy tricks the ghost by convincing him to prepare an elaborate recipe first.