So while we have your attention, care to address your continued use of slurs in your instagram captions? You've been ignoring me for years and that caption is still up. Me and the rest of the Indigenous Americans are waiting for your reply.
I loved that everyone sent something similar to their 'onscreen' personalities. Beans are a very strong staple - filling & satisfying. Which is very much your channel. & Rachel's potatoes were just so on point for her being she is literally a Hobbit. 🥔🤣
Stone soup is not just a fairy tail thing, when making a big quantity of soup you can put stones in it (or clay 'stones'), the stones will heat up and keep the soup warm for longer once the fire dies out. It's perfect for when a lot of people are coming over and won't necessarily all eat at the same time.
I'm delighted that everyone's contributions basically amounted to budae jjigae - Korean army base stew; for those unfamiliar after the Korean war, Korea didn't have a lot of food save a few pantry staples and leftover army rations from the west. Pork belly (bacon), baked beans, spam, ramen, and of course kimchi are all standard ingredients - though it's classically individually wrapped American, you even got the cheese element!
I feel like the texture would be much improved if you used more broth like in budae jjigae. That stew was really cooked down, almost to the point of looking gelatinized.
@@menthalightfoot4948 yeah, I saw Morgan, I think, throw in just 1 bottle of water, 💧 the end result definitely looked like it was missing some nice tasty broth
After living in Korea for 5 years the only kind of budaejjigae I ever ate was school style, it's extremely healthy, like, only a little spam and sausage, mostly cabbage and kimchi and potatoes, no noodles or cheese or teok or any of the fun stuff, and only mildly spicy, lol. My husband has hyper tension so we never went to any budaejjigae restaurants, too much sodium
I loved that they all sent something similar to their 'onscreen' personalities. Rachel's potatoes were just so on point for her as she is essentially a Hobbit. 🥔🤣
In some parts of France peasants would traditionally place an actual stone in the cauldron. It acts as mortar & pestle so all the ingredients have a soft blended texture, and helps with heat distribution. It is called soupe au caillou.
@@oceaneyes937 Yes, and a tiny bit of ash in a dish does not hurt. In France some traditional goat cheese are coated with ashes. Originally it was to protect them from insects and bad germs, and to make them less sticky
@@SolveigMineoMy father taught me that if you are cooking a piece of meat over a wood fire, if you don't have any salt, dip the meat in the fresh clean ashes before you cook it and it brings out the flavor the same way salt does. It works, too!
This was such a fun video! It reminds me of when I was a kid and my mom put our little bits of leftover veggies, noodles, and such into a gallon bag in the freezer. Once the bag was full, we put it into a pot with stock and made soup. It was fun to see what we would get each time, and we never had a bad one. Unfortunately, there were times when we got a really great soup, and we enjoyed it knowing we'd never be able to replicate it exactly.
The story you told in the beginning of the video is actually used as a origin legend for a local Portuguese soup very famous in a city named Almeirim. In the end of the story (the traveler is a friar) the friar takes the stone from the bottom of the cauldron and the locals ask if he's gonna eat it and he says that he's going to keep it for the next time.
Yes! I'm all the way in Tennessee but the bit with 'saving the stone for next time' is a part that I remember. It's so interesting, the common human denominators that bring about similar stories, that then get blended over time. I wonder what version of the story my class read? Sounds like a trip to the library is in order. :) Thank you for commenting and unlocking this memory!
I was going to mention this, Sopa da Pedra is really nice and an actual soup in Portugal. For years I always imagined that they would serve the soup with a stone on the plate (silly young me)!
When I heard that stone soup tale I immediately remembered a story from my country, which is less wholesome but quite similar. In the story a soldier, while walking home after having served his time in the army, comes to an old woman's house and asks for something to eat. The old woman has plenty but is too greedy to share with the soldier so she pretends to be poor and starving herself. The soldier says that if there's nothing to eat in the house they could cook axe porridge. The old woman is curious (and/or extremely greedy) so she brings a cauldron, an axe and some water. The soldier starts boiling and stirring the whole thing, then he tastes a spoonfull and says that there's not enough salt, the porridge would be great with some salt, such a pity the old woman doesn't have any. The woman brings salt, the cycle repeats with some grain and butter. After they both finish eating the porridge the woman asks how they are supposed to eat the axe. The soldier says that the axe didn't fully cook through so he will make another round of porridge next day while on the road, so he has gotten his meal and effectively stolen the axe.
Oooh interesting! We have the same story in Sweden but you cook the soup on a rusty nail instead. Otherwise the same concept with the greedy old woman.
@@EmmaThePrincess Omg this cannot be healthy haha! Although I've recently watched a video where people ran some experiments and found out that the axe porridge would be toxic as hell, so I guess it's not my place to criticize
@@ИевлеваКатя cool that they checked out the science behind it. I don't think that a rusty nail would be that unhealthy. Just some extra iron maybe? ;) Depends on how big the nail is and what it is made of.
Before I finished reading my brain took it too far, I thought she was going to end up in the cooking pot 😬 Though, if every time she "helped" someone, willingly or not, they stole something from her, I can see why she became greedy and shelfish.
I went to a gathering once where they were serving "hobo stew" everyone was supposed to bring some kind of canned good that you could put into a soup. Everything was emptied into a big pot, and when it was done the cans were used as bowls for eating. the hostess contributed fresh meat for the pot. Made fo a fun time.
@@laurentapley1998 lol I wonder how someone would work with peaches in a soup, I feel like some master chef could turn it into something crazy good lol
When my daughter and I were very much younger, I would buy Top Ramen for 10 cents per package and then gourmet it up with cheap hotdogs and frozen peas and carrots. Which we called keys and parrots. Still do. One of our favorite books was “Stone Soup.” Great memories❣️ Loved the contributions!
i started watching this yesterday, realized "Soup sounds... Really Good right now?" and went to make soup- only to realize i was out of potatoes. so. In the spirit of Stone Soup, and in Kitchen Witch tradition, texted a friend to tell him i was making soup, and he could have some if he brought over potatoes. it was Very Good Soup
@@MorganDonner I was shocked that she didn’t lol. Although Rachel contributing potatoes was beyond on brand. Boil em mash em stick em in a stew! I need to watch Lord of the Rings again….
For my soup contribution I'd bring barley, my dad always adds barley to his soups and it's the best. Absorbs flavour, adds chewy texture, and bulks things out. Just yummy.
As cauldron makers across the world are puzzled about the recent spike in demand, because we all want one! Perhaps you should have shown the cleaning of it, because that is the only thing that might change my mind. Excellent! Also, Abby absolutely wins the food donation video bit, although it's just as well everyone else actually brought something useful.
Cleaning is easy. Just add some water, boil it up, then when it's cooled a little, use a wad of grass to gently scour it out, empty then rinse. Put back over the coals to dry.
I don't know about other countries but here in Slovakia you can buy one from random stalls just next to the road. They appear like seasonal vegie stalls, often in a combination with people selling water mellons, new potatoes and apricots and all the seasonal stuff around roads that lots of locals use. Between willages, next to a big road with a branch off heading to a good fishing and camping spots, that kind of thing. Just last week my dad bought a new cauldron along with the fire stand for my mom in one of those. They are often home made from copper or steal plates and those stands are repurposed big metal cans complete with a chimney. The whole combo with a lid and a long wooden spoon goes for like 40-100€ depending on the size and they can be found in anything from tiny 3l to mega huge 50l. It's awesome. And because they are not cast iron they are really light and don't crack when you bonk them against a stone pit or sonething. As for cleaning, outside is usually not an issue. They get charred real bad and unless you want to spend next hour scrubbing that oily ashy carbon layer for no good reason you just let it be, maybe wrap it in a cloth for storrage so nothing else gets dirty. The inside is nice and round which makes it all that easier to clean ocasional burned spots. Just put a little bit of water in, maybe a handful of ashes and sand if you need to scrub it (but not into those that have enamel, those are sponge only), a little bit of dish soap, and you are good.
@@sillyjellyfish2421 It's quite common in South Africa as well, although called a 'potjie' (pronounced poy-ki, translates to small pot), and the stew called 'potjiekos' ('kos' being the afrikaans word for food). It could have other cultural references in SA that I'm not aware of.
Years ago, I was given a glass stone to put in the bottom of my stock pot when cooking (that was to prevent food from sticking to the bottom of the pot and burning - spoiling the soup). The glass stone worked. It would make noise when the soup was cooking too fast; so, I would turn the heat down. However, one day I dropped the glass stone and broke it. I have never seen another of these glass stones offered for sale. I have wondered if a real flat stone would work just as well?
Interesting! Perhaps the flat stone was the originator of the glass stone that you had? I have seen things like that before but never connected the pieces together in that way. We actually did make a Stone Soup when I was in elementary (1-5th or 6th grade in the us, about 12yrs and under). It was pretty good.
Morgan, I love every version of you and I appreciate you. But please don't get me wrong when I say that since you've cut your hair and started trying new things, you are absolutely glowing. Your hair, the vibrant colours, the witchy vibes. I love it. Good for you! I'm glad you're having so much fun trying new things. It's a joy watching you.
If you haven’t already discovered it in your research, while the story of stone soup is found around the world, there is more to it! Before we learned to make vessels to cook in over fires, we learned to use depressions in stones or leaf lined sand pits to make soup. Since we couldn’t lift the vessels over a fire, we used to put smooth river stones in fire until they were hot enough then carefully dropped those hot rocks into the soup to cook it. It is still used in Oaxaca for their traditional method of making Caldo de Piedra by the river, but also at least one restaurant serves it in gourd bowls. Just thought you might find that as interesting as I did!
When I was a kid my mom would make a soup she called 8 can dump for the 8 of us and it was exactly what it sounds like; 8 cans of whatever we had in the pantry all mixed up together ☺️ (usually corn, chili con carne, diced potatoes, and carrots would make up 4 of the 8 cans for the soup) I'm certainly glad to be reminded of something so wonderful 🥰 I think maybe I will try out the stone soup recipe from this video or try the party idea with my siblings when we get together 💙
You've probably already thought of this, but this could make a great "move in day" dinner for an SCA event. One person watches the pot, and everyone who brings an ingredient gets a bowl when it's done. That way there are more hands helping put up tents and encampment stuff, and you still get a party on move in day where everyone gets tasty food!
We did this kind of party for years! Back in the day, when we were all super broke, there was a $5 upper limit on what one brought, but we always had a ton of amazing food, and sent people home with leftovers, usually enough for at least a couple meals. There was more than once when Stone Soup nights made it so our folks could make it to payday.
Our church does this once a year, but we call it cowboy stew, the pastor's family makes a very basic soup base and then everybody brings something to add😊 (Although after some ...interesting additions, a rule was made that if you added to the soup you had to eat some)
This is so sweet! My church does a service every year where we tell the stone soup story and then the children and youth collect what everyone has brought and make soup for lunch!! It always works out surprisingly well, but the over-contributed ingredient is usually dried beans and potatoes.
This legend is so important in Portugal that the soup itself is very famous and traditional to a particular area of the country. It's part of our Mediterranean diet. I actually was surprised different versions of it existed outside of Portugal.
This brought back memories. When I was a child, our teacher read this story and the surprise was our class would be making this stew and we had a contest, whoever brought the prettiest stone, that stone would be the soup starter. I found this beautiful smooth stone about the size of my palm (probably smaller now lol) it won and my stone was the starter for the stew.
What a fun way to do stone soup! And I'm definitely jealous of your beautiful cauldron. I have an old church cookbook that has a recipe for soup that requires a huge cauldron, even bigger than that. One of the ingredients listed was 20 lbs of pork!
My mum used to make "spikersuppe" (nail soup) for us, using whatever veggies were in season and cheaper, any leftovers as well as some meat. She skipped the nail, as modern galvanized nails contain unhealthy metals, and getting an old nail would be too much trouble. I love spikersuppe, and often make it myself. I love adding cabbage.
In English, there is "to scratch a living off a rock", meaning to live on very little money. Probably not based on rock soup, but I'd like to think they're related :)
In Polish it's the same, zupa na gwoździu! And the way I've heard it, it's not as wholesome of a story, I'm afraid... It's about a sly scoundrel scamming a naive village woman for a meal lol
When I first moved out and was poor and had lots of poor friends nearby we'd often do these communal meals. We called it "vegan slop" (some of us didn't eat meat) because it was always different. Pro tip - a beer is a great addition to a stew.
I said mushrooms for my answer but honestly yes, miso would have been amazing choice as well! Especially since my favourite mushrooms take forever to make edible lol
The kimchi at least covers some of that haha! Also an interesting addition I want to make soup with 🤔. My pick for one single ingredient would've been celeriac since it adds a good earthy, herby flavour and also some robust starchy goodness... but if I could add herbs too I'd bring something like a bundle of Herbes de Provence: savory, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, and oregano... plus some parsley and lovage 😍
Makes me want to do this with my friends for our next DnD night. Currently, with the triple-digit heat, we've been doing tacos, but this would be great for when the weather gets cold again.
Even in the heat. You only really need to be around it for like first 15 minutes if you are roasting bacon and onions. After that it only needs to be touched like once every 10 minutes or so to stir it up or dump more things into it. And since it takes like 3 hours to cook to be really good you can play alongside it. Imagine a cooking minigame. Set up the timer during the session for like every 10-15 minutes and every time it rings everybody, DM included, rolls a d20. Person with the lowest number has to go and stir the pot. Also, if you do so, i recommend starting with meat and nothing but meat related items for at least an hour to create the stew, then slowly add hardest to softest vegies in (potato to carrot and other root vegies to mushrooms to leaf vegies and sauces). When stirring, make sure that all the stuff is always covered by water so it doesn't burn. By the end of the game your soup is done. This is one of those things that get better the more you cook them and even better when eaten as leftovers the next day. Have fun :)
@@sillyjellyfish2421 I love the advice. I love the mini-game idea. I will use those. But alas, our house/apartments don't have proper A/C setups, and burn bans are now well into effect over here. Soups and stews have to wait.
Here in South Africa we make stews in those cauldrons. We actually have competions on who makes the best "potjie-kos"/stew. And it can take hours depending on what recipe is used. Amazing for family catherings or when you have friends over.
ah the version we have locally, or at least a story similar that I'm reminded of, is that you put a native hen and a stone into a pot and boil it until the stone is soft at which point you eat the stone because the native hen will still be too tough to eat
Pitchy (sap rich) kindling is the best for starting fires. Basically you use the tinder to start the kindling. Which usually helps start the logs. Wood chips are also fairly decent. And my favorite is the globs of pitch resin that drips from large pine trees, it's so good at starting green wood. Hope that helps future fire building. (I'm from a rural area that uses woodstoves for heat). Ohhhh and if you want a decent sustained fire, hardwood like oak burns pretty slow. (Pine and softwoods burn fast, great for making a coal bed for starting the hardwood burning).
I have hosted a "Stone Soup" party for years. It's a great way to bring friends together. I live in Minneapolis Minnesota & have my gathering most February's. 1 pot omnivore & 1 gluten free vegan. No one leaves hungry. It changes by the hour. Always tasty. & send soup home with friends too.
In South Africa this is a regular thing - we mix meat, vegetables and sometimes bread into a cauldron (called a "potjie") and then eat it with rice and salads. We have big cauldron, small cauldrons, and cauldrons big enough for a mint after dinner.
At the Waldorf i used to go to, we did something similar. Every Tuesday was soup day. On Monday, our teacher would give us little cloth bags to bring one ingredient for the soup on Tuesday. Every student would get to add their ingredient to the pot and it always turned out delicious, and was especially good on a particularly cold day.
What's interesting is that in the eastern slavic folklore there is virtually the same story but the main character is a soldier and he's using an axe instead of stones. Never knew it had a western counterpart!
My parents used to do this when they were camping with a group of friends. It was never this picturesque though. Your version is like an epic stone soup folktale 💟
Mrs Donner, your creativity never ceases to amaze me! I love this little story! The first time I heard of it was when I was in my late teens or early twenties from my neighbor turned supervisor turned friend lol. Interestingly, like you, this friend is a crafty, hard working, enthusiastic, loving, caring, and just all around a fantastic individual! OF COURSE Rachel sent potatoes lol!
You have NO IDEA how much I love theme parties! My SCAian nerd friends would super be into this. One in particular *loves* cooking over a fire. What a great fall event idea!
@@shelbywright3712 Morgan and I met in the mundane world once and the last thing we said to each other was "see ya at an event sometime." But then the pandemic happened, and then she moved :(
@@sugarcoatedgoggles noooo that's terrible! 💔 I haven't been to a bigger than three tents event since the world went nuts, either. If I'm quite lucky the first one near us will be in November. 🙏 Maybe y'all can both travel to Pennsic or Gulf Wars sometime? 💕
In South Africa these pots are frequently used to make food at home. 😁We make a dish called "potjiekos" in them which is basically a stew with some kind of meat and veggies. At my previous job we would have an annually potjiekos competition. It's a big part of South African culture 🇿🇦 Never even thought about the fact that we're basically using cauldrons on a regular basis so maybe I can add witch to my e-mail signature 😉
It reminds me of the "fridge soup" my dad would make. He'd take as many leftovers from the fridge and put them together to make a soup. Always an adventure, lol
I have been LUSTING after that cauldron for years at this point. I feel that I could be wrong.... buuuuuut.....are all my favorite sewing ladies getting witchy in the down low???? YAAASSSSSS Queens!!! Get. It. Loving the vibe. Gah! So good!
this was so much fun to watch! my son who is autistic said he wished his teacher would have done this in class instead of just read the book! he very much enjoyed watching as well. thanks so much!!! towards the end of the month i make "clean out the fridge stew" and minus the rock and caldron and outside fun, that's pretty much what we make.
Stone soup was definitely a favorite book as a kid (you actually showed the version I had growing up)--but I'd never thought of living it out as a party. Lovely idea! Also, very fun to see what ingredients everyone picked! I think I would've suggested pepper (the spice of kings!).
My grandma use to make something like this. She called it HOBO SOUP. Because she made it in the winter, when there wasn't alot of fresh produce, but there was alot of canned products. It always tasted different each time she made it, yet each time it was delicious, and there was never any leftovers. She usually served it with her homemade dinner rolls and sweet butter. I miss her dearly. 🍲
You did a great job making your fire. I know we picture all these ancient people having some kind of perfect form but they made fires for a super long time so for you doing your first fire it was very good! You figured everything you needed with a couple tries. Usually fire making is something you would have observed all your life as a child in the past before technology made it so much easier. This is a skill that would have been as natural as putting your pants on the right way round. Given how few people ever actually make their own fires in the states, its great! Everything in this was great!
This warms my heart and soul completely. Every person who contributed made me smile. We need more joy like this in the world! Thank you so much everyone for contributing to the most wholesome and sweet and wonderful video that the world desperately needs!
When you opened with you had to make the soup you've never done, due to the size of the cauldron, I called Stone Soup as you were saying it. :) Stone Soup as a group is always a blast. We do a smaller version during the fall/winter months with my core group of friends for, usually, Saturday dinner. We will typically suggest the meat, and everyone brings things to put in the pot, along with usually salad, bread and dessert. Makes for great dinners. The group will play games while waiting for dinner to be ready :) BTW, love the new cauldron -- reminds me of the "Cooks' Camp" at AnTir/West War -- and all the goodies they cook onsite over the course of the Event. Glad you've gotten to wear your new dress. Are you wearing your St. Birgitta Cap under your hood?
I CAN'T EVEN HANDLE HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS VIDEO. Stone Soup was one of my mom's favorite stories and it became one of mine, and she made it for me when I was a kid. Bonus points for even showing MY Stone Soup book. Then the clips from CosTube? So wholesome. And wearing The Potato Dress™️ was a lovely touch. 10/10
Interesting! That kind of cauldrons is also known as a Dutch oven. In South Africa we call it a potjie in which we make a stew called potjiekos. We serve in with rice or corn rice (samp). Enjoy your soup!
One of the the families in my parents area has a stone soup party once a year, and it's always a ton of fun! 10/10 would recommend having everyone in your life over for stone soup.
Stone stew was one of my favorite stories as a child, we even had a Soup Rock in our local park with a hole in it where we would make the most absurd and entertaining concoctions. Ah, memories.
This was so heartwarming to see you make stone soup!! Unlocked a core memory from my childhood where we made stone soup in my first grade class. This was so wholesome thank you so much!
Morgan Donner: I made a potato dress Rachel Maksy: Hold my potato.... I wish Rachel would wear her potato-sack dress while virtually giving Morgan potatoes 😅
My first grade class made stone soup together! Now that I'm in university, my department has a Soup Day when the professors make and serve soup to the students after one of our big events. Soup based social gatherings are always the best!
I have always loved this story because, when I was a young girl, it encouraged me to experiment in the kitchen with different ingredients. I used to pretend to make stone soup.
What fun! Some cauldron-related memories: When I was a kid, every 4th of July we could go to my grandfather's cousin's race horse farm for festivities. (Cousin Gene is worthy of a book. He was the son of circus folk. His mother was a bareback rider and his father the horse trainer. He learned to ride before he could walk.) These included his wife Ethel taking out her great-grandmother's 19th c cast iron cauldron and hanging it from a tack chain on a wooden tripod over an open fire. Therein, she would concoct the most delicious chicken-corn-noodle soup (a delicacy in my home state of PA). One year, the tripod broke and she had to start all over again! The soup continued, but without the hanging tripod, a standing one ala a Medieval pottage pot having been used thereafter. I believe my first encounter of the "Stone Soup" tale comes from one of the "Little Bear" books. The short story is called "Birthday Soup". Little Bear cannot find mother bear, and decides to host his birthday party on his own. He invites all his friends who each bring and ingredient. So charmed was I by this story that I too wanted birthday soup every year for my own celebrations. ^_^ A link to the original story: th-cam.com/video/tEnfaK-T30A/w-d-xo.html
Now this really reminds me of army stew, especially with the ramen, cheese, beans, and spam! Funny how everywhere around the world humans have this instinct where they just go "you know what let's throw that in as well" and it always turns into something that's delicious
My friends and I have made stone soup before! We stuck to each of us bringing a root vegetable, an allium, or a red meat. We wound up with rutabaga, parsnips, turnips, golden beets, and several varieties of potato, celery, leeks, shallots, garlic, and different varieties of onion, and a bit of a beef roast, some venison and some lamb. Everything was diced into bite size pieces, went into the cauldron with some water and a bit of red wine, and then we put a very hot rock into the pot to make it boil! (The stone helps regulate & retain the heat.) We did keep the pot over the embers, so it stayed warm all day. Absolutely delicious! We didn't even need a thickening agent with all the starchy vegetables! A very hearty soup, and we had so much fun with everyone dicing their vegetables they brought! This is such a fun idea and I highly recommend it! (And if you don't want to use a stone or buy a cauldron,just use a canning pot on your stove top.)
You are making me want to do this with my "cauldron" (technically a cast iron dutch oven, but close enough for this) and make something like this soon-ish. Maybe come fall. Cooking for one sucks though. I dont cook well for one. I need an army!
I'm really surprised you got the flint and steel to light a good fire! My husband tends to hyper fixate and got really into flint and steel fire starting. It took him forever to get a real fire going. I'm impressed!
I remember the stone soup story from when I was a kid. My teachers even had my classmates and I bring ingredients to have stone soup for lunch. It was one of the most delicious soups I’ve ever had! 😁
I always add oyster sauce to a soup of beef shin on the bone, onions, leeks, carrots, swedes, celery and soup cereal, consisting of pearl barley, green and yellow and red split peas, and dried peas. Its delicious after its cooked slowly all day, and thickened up, eaten with warm bread and butter. Yummmm
I have told this story many, many times over the years. It is always a hit with squirmy little ones. Never actually ate it, though. Now I want to have a stone soup party. It would be fun for the whole famiky, not just the kiddos. Morgan, I so enjoy your channel. You are so unpredictable about what is going to be next. It is always something good. Thank you for sharing your creative heart.
As others have mentioned, Stone Soup festivals are a thing. Great video! (I believe to an ethical society and Stone soup (and stone salad) festivals are a yearly thing.
My contribution would be pearl barley. My mum makes scotch broth that is so thick you can spread it on bread and it's my favourite soup ever. I actually like how it looks, and I am tempted to try it!
Thanks for this. Cooking outside is so different one must slow down. Now your tunic and cauldron are seasoned. Smoke, cooking smells, and friends-check.
What about a 'day-after-thanksgiving stew' where you invite friends that spent the prior day with family? You start the soup with the prior day's turkey leftovers and everyone else brings something else. It sounds like GREAT FUN!!
I loved that story. It's a story of creativity and ingenious problem solving. Watching this kind of content feels like seeing a small part of the fairytale brought to reality.
that's so fun! in eastern europe we have a version of this story but it's about an axe porrige, basically the same exact story just a different dish lol
I used to make Stone Soup with Mum when I was about 5, it was fantastic fun. I think I need to make it with my little nieces. I'd bring barley or herbs for a soup.
I remember this tale, at the end the traveller gave the homesteader the stone to make their own soup, picked up another stone from the ground nearby and said they could have that one for knocking nails in. Bonus.
I don’t usually comment on videos but I HAD to for this one!! This. Is. The. Best. Thing. Ever!!!! Thank you so much for this video! It was so enjoyable to see so many collaborators that I know and love, know and love each other! ❤️
This is the wholesome content we come to the internet for 👌
So while we have your attention, care to address your continued use of slurs in your instagram captions? You've been ignoring me for years and that caption is still up. Me and the rest of the Indigenous Americans are waiting for your reply.
@@cyborg_siren What happened? Genuinely asking - I tried Googling and couldn't seem to find anything.
@@cyborg_siren are you talking about her calling us muggles? None of us have seen anything
I loved that everyone sent something similar to their 'onscreen' personalities. Beans are a very strong staple - filling & satisfying. Which is very much your channel. & Rachel's potatoes were just so on point for her being she is literally a Hobbit. 🥔🤣
the Beanz packaging gives me an existential crisis, I'm so glad that that's what you decided to send her
I don't know why, but Bernadette's poised and refined, "I have for your consideration...beans" absolutely sent me.
I can't stop giggling.
Same! 😂
Stone soup is not just a fairy tail thing, when making a big quantity of soup you can put stones in it (or clay 'stones'), the stones will heat up and keep the soup warm for longer once the fire dies out. It's perfect for when a lot of people are coming over and won't necessarily all eat at the same time.
I'm delighted that everyone's contributions basically amounted to budae jjigae - Korean army base stew; for those unfamiliar after the Korean war, Korea didn't have a lot of food save a few pantry staples and leftover army rations from the west. Pork belly (bacon), baked beans, spam, ramen, and of course kimchi are all standard ingredients - though it's classically individually wrapped American, you even got the cheese element!
Same! I was thinking that
I feel like the texture would be much improved if you used more broth like in budae jjigae. That stew was really cooked down, almost to the point of looking gelatinized.
@@menthalightfoot4948 yeah, I saw Morgan, I think, throw in just 1 bottle of water, 💧 the end result definitely looked like it was missing some nice tasty broth
After living in Korea for 5 years the only kind of budaejjigae I ever ate was school style, it's extremely healthy, like, only a little spam and sausage, mostly cabbage and kimchi and potatoes, no noodles or cheese or teok or any of the fun stuff, and only mildly spicy, lol. My husband has hyper tension so we never went to any budaejjigae restaurants, too much sodium
Yes! As soon as I saw the beans I got so excited for accidental budae jiggae
The fact that Rachel of course choose potatoes will now always make me smile.
I loved that they all sent something similar to their 'onscreen' personalities. Rachel's potatoes were just so on point for her as she is essentially a Hobbit. 🥔🤣
I wish Rachel would wear her potato-sack dress while virtually giving Morgan potatoes 😅
@@mayfair_forest_witch That would have been perfect, as the potato-sack dress even looks good on her!!.
shame she didn't add molasses
Lol, I almost expected her to say it as *Po-Tay-Toes* when she was holding them up.
This was extremely wholsome but also Abby starting her clip with "Shit!" is an absolute mood.
I was looking for this comment and +1 🥰
Totally Abby lol
And the 'I was supposed to'
In some parts of France peasants would traditionally place an actual stone in the cauldron. It acts as mortar & pestle so all the ingredients have a soft blended texture, and helps with heat distribution. It is called soupe au caillou.
Oh that's really interesting
@@oceaneyes937 Yes, and a tiny bit of ash in a dish does not hurt. In France some traditional goat cheese are coated with ashes. Originally it was to protect them from insects and bad germs, and to make them less sticky
@@SolveigMineoMy father taught me that if you are cooking a piece of meat over a wood fire, if you don't have any salt, dip the meat in the fresh clean ashes before you cook it and it brings out the flavor the same way salt does. It works, too!
@@ixchelkali 🤯
Ooh, I watched a cartoon series about a boy called Calliou when I was young, now I finally realize the name means "stone"!
So on brand for Rachel to bring po-ta-toes 🥔
I wish Rachel would wear her potato-sack dress while virtually giving Morgan potatoes 😅
@@mayfair_forest_witch 🤣👍
Boil em, Mash em, Stick em a Stew....
😁
This was such a fun video! It reminds me of when I was a kid and my mom put our little bits of leftover veggies, noodles, and such into a gallon bag in the freezer. Once the bag was full, we put it into a pot with stock and made soup. It was fun to see what we would get each time, and we never had a bad one. Unfortunately, there were times when we got a really great soup, and we enjoyed it knowing we'd never be able to replicate it exactly.
Surprise Soup! I love it!
ohh how fun!
The story you told in the beginning of the video is actually used as a origin legend for a local Portuguese soup very famous in a city named Almeirim. In the end of the story (the traveler is a friar) the friar takes the stone from the bottom of the cauldron and the locals ask if he's gonna eat it and he says that he's going to keep it for the next time.
Yes! I'm all the way in Tennessee but the bit with 'saving the stone for next time' is a part that I remember. It's so interesting, the common human denominators that bring about similar stories, that then get blended over time. I wonder what version of the story my class read? Sounds like a trip to the library is in order. :)
Thank you for commenting and unlocking this memory!
Yes!! Sopa da pedra is hugelly popular in Portugal, and rightfully: its delicious!
I wrote a comment before I read yours. I love the story and LOOOVE the soup. Viva a sopa da pedra :D
I was going to mention this, Sopa da Pedra is really nice and an actual soup in Portugal. For years I always imagined that they would serve the soup with a stone on the plate (silly young me)!
When I heard that stone soup tale I immediately remembered a story from my country, which is less wholesome but quite similar. In the story a soldier, while walking home after having served his time in the army, comes to an old woman's house and asks for something to eat. The old woman has plenty but is too greedy to share with the soldier so she pretends to be poor and starving herself. The soldier says that if there's nothing to eat in the house they could cook axe porridge. The old woman is curious (and/or extremely greedy) so she brings a cauldron, an axe and some water. The soldier starts boiling and stirring the whole thing, then he tastes a spoonfull and says that there's not enough salt, the porridge would be great with some salt, such a pity the old woman doesn't have any. The woman brings salt, the cycle repeats with some grain and butter. After they both finish eating the porridge the woman asks how they are supposed to eat the axe. The soldier says that the axe didn't fully cook through so he will make another round of porridge next day while on the road, so he has gotten his meal and effectively stolen the axe.
Oooh interesting! We have the same story in Sweden but you cook the soup on a rusty nail instead. Otherwise the same concept with the greedy old woman.
@@EmmaThePrincess Omg this cannot be healthy haha! Although I've recently watched a video where people ran some experiments and found out that the axe porridge would be toxic as hell, so I guess it's not my place to criticize
@@ИевлеваКатя cool that they checked out the science behind it. I don't think that a rusty nail would be that unhealthy. Just some extra iron maybe? ;) Depends on how big the nail is and what it is made of.
@@EmmaThePrincess iron deficiency juice, just what I need
Before I finished reading my brain took it too far, I thought she was going to end up in the cooking pot 😬
Though, if every time she "helped" someone, willingly or not, they stole something from her, I can see why she became greedy and shelfish.
I went to a gathering once where they were serving "hobo stew" everyone was supposed to bring some kind of canned good that you could put into a soup. Everything was emptied into a big pot, and when it was done the cans were used as bowls for eating. the hostess contributed fresh meat for the pot. Made fo a fun time.
My grandma used to host big parties and do this! My dad got in trouble when he brought a can of peaches as a teenager.
This sounds like a brilliant party idea. Especially for college when no one has much in the way of cash to spend.
@@laurentapley1998
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@@laurentapley1998 LMAO i was wondering what would happen if someone did something like that. something less soup-able
@@laurentapley1998 lol I wonder how someone would work with peaches in a soup, I feel like some master chef could turn it into something crazy good lol
When my daughter and I were very much younger, I would buy Top Ramen for 10 cents per package and then gourmet it up with cheap hotdogs and frozen peas and carrots. Which we called keys and parrots. Still do. One of our favorite books was “Stone Soup.” Great memories❣️ Loved the contributions!
i started watching this yesterday, realized "Soup sounds... Really Good right now?" and went to make soup- only to realize i was out of potatoes.
so.
In the spirit of Stone Soup, and in Kitchen Witch tradition, texted a friend to tell him i was making soup, and he could have some if he brought over potatoes.
it was Very Good Soup
Yay! ♡
Did he?
@@ptonpc he did :)
@@kaylynxup :D Good to hear!
Ha! That is awesome!! 😁
All of those contributions were so incredibly on-brand...
I will admit, I was kind of expecting Bernadette to contribute a turnip 👀
@@MorganDonner Now you mention it, that would've been legit
@@MorganDonner I was shocked that she didn’t lol. Although Rachel contributing potatoes was beyond on brand. Boil em mash em stick em in a stew!
I need to watch Lord of the Rings again….
@@MorganDonner did you play Animal Crossing together? 🤣
@@pearlygirl88 My one disappointment is she should have been wearing her potato sack dress xD Though this could have been filmed before she made it.
I was DELIGHTED by this. As a Brit, I particularly love that Bernadette gave you Heinz baked beans. 🤣🤣🤣
Beanz meanz Heinz
Veggie beans as well
For my soup contribution I'd bring barley, my dad always adds barley to his soups and it's the best. Absorbs flavour, adds chewy texture, and bulks things out. Just yummy.
I love barley, it really does add such a nice texture.
Agree….I love barley in soup !!!
I bet your dads soup is amazing !!!
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 it's so good! You can feel it healing you as you eat it
As cauldron makers across the world are puzzled about the recent spike in demand, because we all want one! Perhaps you should have shown the cleaning of it, because that is the only thing that might change my mind. Excellent! Also, Abby absolutely wins the food donation video bit, although it's just as well everyone else actually brought something useful.
Cleaning is easy. Just add some water, boil it up, then when it's cooled a little, use a wad of grass to gently scour it out, empty then rinse. Put back over the coals to dry.
or let anything on cake on and whatever stays is flavor for next time. as they did back in the day.
I don't know about other countries but here in Slovakia you can buy one from random stalls just next to the road. They appear like seasonal vegie stalls, often in a combination with people selling water mellons, new potatoes and apricots and all the seasonal stuff around roads that lots of locals use. Between willages, next to a big road with a branch off heading to a good fishing and camping spots, that kind of thing.
Just last week my dad bought a new cauldron along with the fire stand for my mom in one of those. They are often home made from copper or steal plates and those stands are repurposed big metal cans complete with a chimney. The whole combo with a lid and a long wooden spoon goes for like 40-100€ depending on the size and they can be found in anything from tiny 3l to mega huge 50l. It's awesome. And because they are not cast iron they are really light and don't crack when you bonk them against a stone pit or sonething.
As for cleaning, outside is usually not an issue. They get charred real bad and unless you want to spend next hour scrubbing that oily ashy carbon layer for no good reason you just let it be, maybe wrap it in a cloth for storrage so nothing else gets dirty. The inside is nice and round which makes it all that easier to clean ocasional burned spots. Just put a little bit of water in, maybe a handful of ashes and sand if you need to scrub it (but not into those that have enamel, those are sponge only), a little bit of dish soap, and you are good.
@@sillyjellyfish2421 It's quite common in South Africa as well, although called a 'potjie' (pronounced poy-ki, translates to small pot), and the stew called 'potjiekos' ('kos' being the afrikaans word for food). It could have other cultural references in SA that I'm not aware of.
Just where in America does one get a good cauldron?
Years ago, I was given a glass stone to put in the bottom of my stock pot when cooking (that was to prevent food from sticking to the bottom of the pot and burning - spoiling the soup). The glass stone worked. It would make noise when the soup was cooking too fast; so, I would turn the heat down. However, one day I dropped the glass stone and broke it. I have never seen another of these glass stones offered for sale. I have wondered if a real flat stone would work just as well?
Yes, just find a flat river-rock.
Interesting! Perhaps the flat stone was the originator of the glass stone that you had? I have seen things like that before but never connected the pieces together in that way. We actually did make a Stone Soup when I was in elementary (1-5th or 6th grade in the us, about 12yrs and under). It was pretty good.
The Scandinavian equivalent, a metal nail, is harder to rationalise in the same way.
My mom has one too! I thought it was a weird coaster or something 🤣
woww cool!!
All your other friends: Hey Morgan, here's some stuff for your soup!
Abby: Ah shit! Here just take this.
This is the energy I'm here for honestly
@@MorganDonner I loved that they all sent something similar to their 'onscreen' personalities. Rachel's potatoes were just so on point for her. 🥔🤣
It is very on brand
Morgan, I love every version of you and I appreciate you. But please don't get me wrong when I say that since you've cut your hair and started trying new things, you are absolutely glowing. Your hair, the vibrant colours, the witchy vibes. I love it. Good for you! I'm glad you're having so much fun trying new things. It's a joy watching you.
me too me too! I'm fairly new to her channel and love her hair palette ... that black red and lightish color side sooo pretty! it's art really!!
It's that Vermont air. Good for what ails ya 💓
It’s the angrily dumping the ramen into the pot for meeeee 😂😂😂😂
Same here 🤣🤣🤣
Morgan: this is good soup 🙂
Morgan's face: I am not saying a word 🤐
Love the reactions to Angela's contribution!
hahahaha i think it's because of how "visually off putting" the stew looked but it's yummy in a weird way?? 😂
If you haven’t already discovered it in your research, while the story of stone soup is found around the world, there is more to it!
Before we learned to make vessels to cook in over fires, we learned to use depressions in stones or leaf lined sand pits to make soup. Since we couldn’t lift the vessels over a fire, we used to put smooth river stones in fire until they were hot enough then carefully dropped those hot rocks into the soup to cook it.
It is still used in Oaxaca for their traditional method of making Caldo de Piedra by the river, but also at least one restaurant serves it in gourd bowls. Just thought you might find that as interesting as I did!
I've seen re enactment videos where people would heat metal pokers/skewers in the fire and use them to heat up drinks.
That sounds like the sort of interesting fun thing i'd love to see Max Miller from tasting history do!
When I was a kid my mom would make a soup she called 8 can dump for the 8 of us and it was exactly what it sounds like; 8 cans of whatever we had in the pantry all mixed up together ☺️ (usually corn, chili con carne, diced potatoes, and carrots would make up 4 of the 8 cans for the soup)
I'm certainly glad to be reminded of something so wonderful 🥰
I think maybe I will try out the stone soup recipe from this video or try the party idea with my siblings when we get together 💙
You've probably already thought of this, but this could make a great "move in day" dinner for an SCA event. One person watches the pot, and everyone who brings an ingredient gets a bowl when it's done. That way there are more hands helping put up tents and encampment stuff, and you still get a party on move in day where everyone gets tasty food!
We do that in my group on the last day with what people have left. They get mad at me for having super spicy stuff though.
I just replied on another comment how I was imagining this for an encampment at Pennsic 🙂
We did this kind of party for years! Back in the day, when we were all super broke, there was a $5 upper limit on what one brought, but we always had a ton of amazing food, and sent people home with leftovers, usually enough for at least a couple meals. There was more than once when Stone Soup nights made it so our folks could make it to payday.
Our church does this once a year, but we call it cowboy stew, the pastor's family makes a very basic soup base and then everybody brings something to add😊
(Although after some ...interesting additions, a rule was made that if you added to the soup you had to eat some)
What were some of the unusual (Im assuming edible) additions?
@@leathorns1751 well someone tried bringing canned dog food once, thankfully they did NOT succeed in putting it in the pot lol
@@caitlinhanson8631 ooof! Yeah, I'm just imagining someone rugby tackling them before they can add it in! XD
This is so sweet! My church does a service every year where we tell the stone soup story and then the children and youth collect what everyone has brought and make soup for lunch!! It always works out surprisingly well, but the over-contributed ingredient is usually dried beans and potatoes.
My mom likes to make "Happy Soup" which was a bunch of ingredients thrown together with tomatoes and ground meat. (Deer or hamburger) it was so good!!
That sounds so tasty 🥰
I love that name, I might have to start using that. 😁
That sounds amazing and I’m so hungry.
This legend is so important in Portugal that the soup itself is very famous and traditional to a particular area of the country. It's part of our Mediterranean diet. I actually was surprised different versions of it existed outside of Portugal.
This brought back memories. When I was a child, our teacher read this story and the surprise was our class would be making this stew and we had a contest, whoever brought the prettiest stone, that stone would be the soup starter. I found this beautiful smooth stone about the size of my palm (probably smaller now lol) it won and my stone was the starter for the stew.
I freaking love teachers like that!
What a fun way to do stone soup! And I'm definitely jealous of your beautiful cauldron.
I have an old church cookbook that has a recipe for soup that requires a huge cauldron, even bigger than that. One of the ingredients listed was 20 lbs of pork!
Every digital friend popping up to give ingredients gave me intense joy. Maybe parasocial and creepy, but it is what it is.
In Norwegian, the trope is “to boil soup on a nail”. (“Å koke suppe på en spiker,” which isn’t as alliterative in English.)
That's really interesting, the version I heard as a kid used a nail instead of a stone as well!
same in sweden
My mum used to make "spikersuppe" (nail soup) for us, using whatever veggies were in season and cheaper, any leftovers as well as some meat.
She skipped the nail, as modern galvanized nails contain unhealthy metals, and getting an old nail would be too much trouble.
I love spikersuppe, and often make it myself. I love adding cabbage.
In English, there is "to scratch a living off a rock", meaning to live on very little money. Probably not based on rock soup, but I'd like to think they're related :)
In Polish it's the same, zupa na gwoździu! And the way I've heard it, it's not as wholesome of a story, I'm afraid... It's about a sly scoundrel scamming a naive village woman for a meal lol
When I first moved out and was poor and had lots of poor friends nearby we'd often do these communal meals. We called it "vegan slop" (some of us didn't eat meat) because it was always different. Pro tip - a beer is a great addition to a stew.
Miso paste. It's a great addition to most soups imo.
Gotta have that umami!
I thought about that too 😝 also some wakame wouldn't have been bad
MMM yesss
I said mushrooms for my answer but honestly yes, miso would have been amazing choice as well! Especially since my favourite mushrooms take forever to make edible lol
What I've learned is, no one will think of the salt and spices so always show up with a bandolier of them strapped to my chest or something. 😂
Lol, same. Though the ramen, ginger, and Dutch cheese powder probably helped with that.
The kimchi at least covers some of that haha! Also an interesting addition I want to make soup with 🤔. My pick for one single ingredient would've been celeriac since it adds a good earthy, herby flavour and also some robust starchy goodness... but if I could add herbs too I'd bring something like a bundle of Herbes de Provence: savory, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, and oregano... plus some parsley and lovage 😍
The bacon and Spam probably took care of the salt. In a pinch, there was also the ramen packet of seasonings!
is not there a lot of salt and flavor in bacon and spam? togeather with the ginger there should not be a need for spices
i love this! its always better with friends. this is a great answer to the question "what can my community build together for each other?"
Everyone's contributions were so in keeping with their vibes, how delightful
Makes me want to do this with my friends for our next DnD night. Currently, with the triple-digit heat, we've been doing tacos, but this would be great for when the weather gets cold again.
Even in the heat. You only really need to be around it for like first 15 minutes if you are roasting bacon and onions. After that it only needs to be touched like once every 10 minutes or so to stir it up or dump more things into it. And since it takes like 3 hours to cook to be really good you can play alongside it.
Imagine a cooking minigame. Set up the timer during the session for like every 10-15 minutes and every time it rings everybody, DM included, rolls a d20. Person with the lowest number has to go and stir the pot.
Also, if you do so, i recommend starting with meat and nothing but meat related items for at least an hour to create the stew, then slowly add hardest to softest vegies in (potato to carrot and other root vegies to mushrooms to leaf vegies and sauces). When stirring, make sure that all the stuff is always covered by water so it doesn't burn. By the end of the game your soup is done.
This is one of those things that get better the more you cook them and even better when eaten as leftovers the next day.
Have fun :)
@@sillyjellyfish2421 I love the advice. I love the mini-game idea. I will use those. But alas, our house/apartments don't have proper A/C setups, and burn bans are now well into effect over here. Soups and stews have to wait.
Here in South Africa we make stews in those cauldrons. We actually have competions on who makes the best "potjie-kos"/stew. And it can take hours depending on what recipe is used. Amazing for family catherings or when you have friends over.
ah the version we have locally, or at least a story similar that I'm reminded of, is that you put a native hen and a stone into a pot and boil it until the stone is soft at which point you eat the stone because the native hen will still be too tough to eat
Pitchy (sap rich) kindling is the best for starting fires. Basically you use the tinder to start the kindling. Which usually helps start the logs. Wood chips are also fairly decent. And my favorite is the globs of pitch resin that drips from large pine trees, it's so good at starting green wood. Hope that helps future fire building. (I'm from a rural area that uses woodstoves for heat).
Ohhhh and if you want a decent sustained fire, hardwood like oak burns pretty slow. (Pine and softwoods burn fast, great for making a coal bed for starting the hardwood burning).
I love Angela's contribution and Morgan's reactions!😆
I have hosted a "Stone Soup" party for years. It's a great way to bring friends together. I live in Minneapolis Minnesota & have my gathering most February's. 1 pot omnivore & 1 gluten free vegan. No one leaves hungry. It changes by the hour. Always tasty. & send soup home with friends too.
In South Africa this is a regular thing - we mix meat, vegetables and sometimes bread into a cauldron (called a "potjie") and then eat it with rice and salads. We have big cauldron, small cauldrons, and cauldrons big enough for a mint after dinner.
At the Waldorf i used to go to, we did something similar. Every Tuesday was soup day. On Monday, our teacher would give us little cloth bags to bring one ingredient for the soup on Tuesday. Every student would get to add their ingredient to the pot and it always turned out delicious, and was especially good on a particularly cold day.
What's interesting is that in the eastern slavic folklore there is virtually the same story but the main character is a soldier and he's using an axe instead of stones. Never knew it had a western counterpart!
And in Norway it’s a nail (“å koke _suppe_ på en _spiker_ “).
@@ragnkja I love to see how different cultures have similar stories
Stone soups kind of meals are fun and challenging. I heard them called “clean out the pantry” “clean out the fridge” kinds of meals are the similar.
My parents used to do this when they were camping with a group of friends. It was never this picturesque though. Your version is like an epic stone soup folktale 💟
Mrs Donner, your creativity never ceases to amaze me!
I love this little story! The first time I heard of it was when I was in my late teens or early twenties from my neighbor turned supervisor turned friend lol. Interestingly, like you, this friend is a crafty, hard working, enthusiastic, loving, caring, and just all around a fantastic individual!
OF COURSE Rachel sent potatoes lol!
You have NO IDEA how much I love theme parties! My SCAian nerd friends would super be into this. One in particular *loves* cooking over a fire. What a great fall event idea!
Morgan herself is also one of our SCAdian nerd friends. ;)
@@shelbywright3712 Morgan and I met in the mundane world once and the last thing we said to each other was "see ya at an event sometime." But then the pandemic happened, and then she moved :(
@@sugarcoatedgoggles noooo that's terrible! 💔 I haven't been to a bigger than three tents event since the world went nuts, either. If I'm quite lucky the first one near us will be in November. 🙏
Maybe y'all can both travel to Pennsic or Gulf Wars sometime? 💕
I was so excited when you played the stone soup song. That's one of my favorites of hers along with her creepy Morrigan Lullaby.
This video made me so emotional! The feeling of community after feeling cut off and limited for so long. Thank you so much for this!
In South Africa these pots are frequently used to make food at home. 😁We make a dish called "potjiekos" in them which is basically a stew with some kind of meat and veggies. At my previous job we would have an annually potjiekos competition. It's a big part of South African culture 🇿🇦 Never even thought about the fact that we're basically using cauldrons on a regular basis so maybe I can add witch to my e-mail signature 😉
It reminds me of the "fridge soup" my dad would make. He'd take as many leftovers from the fridge and put them together to make a soup. Always an adventure, lol
I have been LUSTING after that cauldron for years at this point. I feel that I could be wrong.... buuuuuut.....are all my favorite sewing ladies getting witchy in the down low???? YAAASSSSSS Queens!!! Get. It. Loving the vibe. Gah! So good!
this was so much fun to watch! my son who is autistic said he wished his teacher would have done this in class instead of just read the book! he very much enjoyed watching as well. thanks so much!!! towards the end of the month i make "clean out the fridge stew" and minus the rock and caldron and outside fun, that's pretty much what we make.
Stone soup was definitely a favorite book as a kid (you actually showed the version I had growing up)--but I'd never thought of living it out as a party. Lovely idea! Also, very fun to see what ingredients everyone picked! I think I would've suggested pepper (the spice of kings!).
My grandma use to make something like this. She called it HOBO SOUP. Because she made it in the winter, when there wasn't alot of fresh produce, but there was alot of canned products. It always tasted different each time she made it, yet each time it was delicious, and there was never any leftovers. She usually served it with her homemade dinner rolls and sweet butter. I miss her dearly. 🍲
You did a great job making your fire. I know we picture all these ancient people having some kind of perfect form but they made fires for a super long time so for you doing your first fire it was very good! You figured everything you needed with a couple tries. Usually fire making is something you would have observed all your life as a child in the past before technology made it so much easier. This is a skill that would have been as natural as putting your pants on the right way round. Given how few people ever actually make their own fires in the states, its great! Everything in this was great!
This warms my heart and soul completely. Every person who contributed made me smile. We need more joy like this in the world! Thank you so much everyone for contributing to the most wholesome and sweet and wonderful video that the world desperately needs!
When you opened with you had to make the soup you've never done, due to the size of the cauldron, I called Stone Soup as you were saying it. :) Stone Soup as a group is always a blast. We do a smaller version during the fall/winter months with my core group of friends for, usually, Saturday dinner. We will typically suggest the meat, and everyone brings things to put in the pot, along with usually salad, bread and dessert. Makes for great dinners. The group will play games while waiting for dinner to be ready :) BTW, love the new cauldron -- reminds me of the "Cooks' Camp" at AnTir/West War -- and all the goodies they cook onsite over the course of the Event. Glad you've gotten to wear your new dress. Are you wearing your St. Birgitta Cap under your hood?
Oh, you brought back some lovely memories! The last big event I went to was the West/AnTir War, back in...'90 or '91, I believe.
The virtual participation was so heart warming !! I'm sure it was a lovely soup !!
I CAN'T EVEN HANDLE HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS VIDEO. Stone Soup was one of my mom's favorite stories and it became one of mine, and she made it for me when I was a kid. Bonus points for even showing MY Stone Soup book. Then the clips from CosTube? So wholesome. And wearing The Potato Dress™️ was a lovely touch. 10/10
And the pie charts? Perfection.
Interesting! That kind of cauldrons is also known as a Dutch oven. In South Africa we call it a potjie in which we make a stew called potjiekos. We serve in with rice or corn rice (samp). Enjoy your soup!
One of the the families in my parents area has a stone soup party once a year, and it's always a ton of fun! 10/10 would recommend having everyone in your life over for stone soup.
Stone stew was one of my favorite stories as a child, we even had a Soup Rock in our local park with a hole in it where we would make the most absurd and entertaining concoctions. Ah, memories.
This was so heartwarming to see you make stone soup!! Unlocked a core memory from my childhood where we made stone soup in my first grade class. This was so wholesome thank you so much!
Morgan Donner: I made a potato dress
Rachel Maksy: Hold my potato....
I wish Rachel would wear her potato-sack dress while virtually giving Morgan potatoes 😅
My first grade class made stone soup together! Now that I'm in university, my department has a Soup Day when the professors make and serve soup to the students after one of our big events. Soup based social gatherings are always the best!
Morgan, I LOVED this video, having all my favorite TH-cam sewists pop up and vist you. Help you make soup 🤣 so precious.
I have always loved this story because, when I was a young girl, it encouraged me to experiment in the kitchen with different ingredients. I used to pretend to make stone soup.
What fun! Some cauldron-related memories: When I was a kid, every 4th of July we could go to my grandfather's cousin's race horse farm for festivities. (Cousin Gene is worthy of a book. He was the son of circus folk. His mother was a bareback rider and his father the horse trainer. He learned to ride before he could walk.) These included his wife Ethel taking out her great-grandmother's 19th c cast iron cauldron and hanging it from a tack chain on a wooden tripod over an open fire. Therein, she would concoct the most delicious chicken-corn-noodle soup (a delicacy in my home state of PA). One year, the tripod broke and she had to start all over again! The soup continued, but without the hanging tripod, a standing one ala a Medieval pottage pot having been used thereafter.
I believe my first encounter of the "Stone Soup" tale comes from one of the "Little Bear" books. The short story is called "Birthday Soup". Little Bear cannot find mother bear, and decides to host his birthday party on his own. He invites all his friends who each bring and ingredient. So charmed was I by this story that I too wanted birthday soup every year for my own celebrations. ^_^
A link to the original story:
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wow!!
LIVING MY LITERAL DREAM! I have been wanting to make Stone Soup and Thunder Cake for YEARS!
Now this really reminds me of army stew, especially with the ramen, cheese, beans, and spam! Funny how everywhere around the world humans have this instinct where they just go "you know what let's throw that in as well" and it always turns into something that's delicious
My friends and I have made stone soup before! We stuck to each of us bringing a root vegetable, an allium, or a red meat. We wound up with rutabaga, parsnips, turnips, golden beets, and several varieties of potato, celery, leeks, shallots, garlic, and different varieties of onion, and a bit of a beef roast, some venison and some lamb. Everything was diced into bite size pieces, went into the cauldron with some water and a bit of red wine, and then we put a very hot rock into the pot to make it boil! (The stone helps regulate & retain the heat.) We did keep the pot over the embers, so it stayed warm all day.
Absolutely delicious! We didn't even need a thickening agent with all the starchy vegetables! A very hearty soup, and we had so much fun with everyone dicing their vegetables they brought!
This is such a fun idea and I highly recommend it!
(And if you don't want to use a stone or buy a cauldron,just use a canning pot on your stove top.)
You are making me want to do this with my "cauldron" (technically a cast iron dutch oven, but close enough for this) and make something like this soon-ish. Maybe come fall. Cooking for one sucks though. I dont cook well for one. I need an army!
Maybe try cooking for your neighbours
I'm really surprised you got the flint and steel to light a good fire! My husband tends to hyper fixate and got really into flint and steel fire starting. It took him forever to get a real fire going. I'm impressed!
I remember the stone soup story from when I was a kid. My teachers even had my classmates and I bring ingredients to have stone soup for lunch. It was one of the most delicious soups I’ve ever had! 😁
I always add oyster sauce to a soup of beef shin on the bone, onions, leeks, carrots, swedes, celery and soup cereal, consisting of pearl barley, green and yellow and red split peas, and dried peas. Its delicious after its cooked slowly all day, and thickened up, eaten with warm bread and butter. Yummmm
Omg I started crying with the ingredients giving it was so wholesome 😭 ♥️
me too!
I have told this story many, many times over the years. It is always a hit with squirmy little ones. Never actually ate it, though. Now I want to have a stone soup party. It would be fun for the whole famiky, not just the kiddos. Morgan, I so enjoy your channel. You are so unpredictable about what is going to be next. It is always something good. Thank you for sharing your creative heart.
As others have mentioned, Stone Soup festivals are a thing. Great video! (I believe to an ethical society and Stone soup (and stone salad) festivals are a yearly thing.
My contribution would be pearl barley. My mum makes scotch broth that is so thick you can spread it on bread and it's my favourite soup ever.
I actually like how it looks, and I am tempted to try it!
You look fabulous Morgan! Also, your editing skills keep on getting better. Thank you for this video!
Thanks for this. Cooking outside is so different one must slow down. Now your tunic and cauldron are seasoned. Smoke, cooking smells, and friends-check.
I love this so much. How fun!!! I loved seeing your friends contribute ingredients and I loved the data analysis 😂 What a fantastic idea, Morgan!!
What about a 'day-after-thanksgiving stew' where you invite friends that spent the prior day with family? You start the soup with the prior day's turkey leftovers and everyone else brings something else. It sounds like GREAT FUN!!
One of my favorite stories!! Love how this came together.
I absolutely plan on reading this to my kiddos and trying this out with the family!
I loved that you decided to make a stone soup!
and all the different characters and clothing in the beginningis SO YOU!!
Watched this while eating soup, 10/10 immersion, would recommend
I loved that story. It's a story of creativity and ingenious problem solving. Watching this kind of content feels like seeing a small part of the fairytale brought to reality.
that's so fun! in eastern europe we have a version of this story but it's about an axe porrige, basically the same exact story just a different dish lol
I used to make Stone Soup with Mum when I was about 5, it was fantastic fun. I think I need to make it with my little nieces.
I'd bring barley or herbs for a soup.
I remember this tale, at the end the traveller gave the homesteader the stone to make their own soup, picked up another stone from the ground nearby and said they could have that one for knocking nails in. Bonus.
STONE SOUP!!! This really brought me back to my childhood and I am so delighted.
My daughter's girl scout troop did this on a camp out. They actually put stones in the pot. I seem to remember some grit. 🤣
I don’t usually comment on videos but I HAD to for this one!! This. Is. The. Best. Thing. Ever!!!! Thank you so much for this video! It was so enjoyable to see so many collaborators that I know and love, know and love each other! ❤️