I tried cooking with a Cauldron
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@Costuming_Drama - Bacon, 3 lb
@Sewstine - Spicy Kimchi, a few cups or so, and spam, 12 oz
@bernadettebanner - Beans, 16 oz can
@thelacedangel - Ginger, one root
@rachelmaksy - potatoes, 4 lb
@NicoleRudolph - Onion, 3 lb
@AngelaClaytonCostumery - Maruchan Yakisoba Teriyaki Chicken flavor, one package
@Leeam - Gouda cheese, 12 oz
@KarolinaZebrowskax - Rice, two cups
@AbbyCox - HelloFresh (assembled and eaten separately ;p )
Audience ingredients:
Carrots, 16 oz
Bay leaf, six leaves
Parsley, two heaping tablespoons
Garlic, two bulbs
Mushrooms, 8 oz
Celery, 10oz
My Ingredients:
Invisible Magic Stone, 2.5 lbs
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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! 😂
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.
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
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....
😁
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!! 😁
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
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
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 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.
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)!
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!
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?? 😂
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
Every digital friend popping up to give ingredients gave me intense joy. Maybe parasocial and creepy, but it is what it is.
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
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?
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 🙂
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!!
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'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
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.
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 💓
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.
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 💙
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
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.
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.
I have a big get together for my D&D campaign finale. (Including every guest player we've had. I think 12 people total.) I've been trying to stock things up and plan a big meal, but now I'm really tempted to just pull out my giant stock pot and tell everyone to bring a soup ingredient. Make it really feel like we scrounged together a stew during a long rest!
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that would be a dream of dnd campaign tbh!
Exactly! I was imagining an encampment at Pennsic with Morgan's past in the SCA, but, I like the idea of the party's encampment a LOT too.
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
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.
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!
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 💟
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 love Angela's contribution and Morgan's reactions!😆
Everyone's contributions were so in keeping with their vibes, how delightful
I seem to remember my Nanna explaining that you would sometime put a flat stone at the bottom of a cooking pot, to stop a soup catching if the pot got banged up.
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.
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. 🍲
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
wow!!
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
The stone soup story reminds me of a part in the game Legend of Zelda: Twilight princess where in one of the dungeons you are looking for a key but you find ingredients for a soup instead!
I loved that they all sent something similar to their 'onscreen' personalities. Rachel's potatoes were just so on point for her. 🥔🤣
rachel bringing potatoes was SO ON POINT, i almost died!!!
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!!
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 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.
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.
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!
Omg I started crying with the ingredients giving it was so wholesome 😭 ♥️
me too!
Someone told me that their girl scout troop did this with canned soup. Every girl would bring a can and everything would be mixed together. I was always dubious, but they swore it turned out well.
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!
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.
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.
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.
I remember the version I got taught was that it was a chicken who made the soup to get out of being eaten by a wolf; she tells him that she can make him a soup 'only from a stone' and then tires him out by getting him to gather all the ingredients and then makes him sleepy by letting him eat the entire cauldron of soup. I like both versions tho, nice to see it's one of those tales that adapts and changes with where it's told.
Morgan, I LOVED this video, having all my favorite TH-cam sewists pop up and vist you. Help you make soup 🤣 so precious.
I appreciate that Rachel Maksy did not pass up the opportunity to contribute potatoes since we all know you boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew!
This was fun!! Now I want to do a stone soup with my friends…
I'm 67 years old and I remember the story of Stone Soup. I loved it as a child.
DAYUM!!! And I thought *my* cauldron was huge!!! Jeebus, girl!! That's totally awesome!! Cheers! - Dame Eleanor
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 was so excited when you played the stone soup song. That's one of my favorites of hers along with her creepy Morrigan Lullaby.
That is one huge cauldron! I'd like one maybe half the size!
In Czech version it's not a stone soup but an axe soup, and in the end the wanderer will chop bunch of woods for people who gave him ingredients.
I am absolutely CACKLING at Angela's contribution.
This was really fun to watch 🤣Stone soup is actually popular in Portugal! If anyone is curious, we usually make it with: potatoes, pork ear, chorizo, cabbage, red beans, onion, garlic, olive oil, cumin, salt, bay leaf, and of course, a thoroughly washed stone inside the pot! 🙂
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!
This reminds me so much of a Swedish bedtime story my dad used to tell me and my siblings (which we loved): "Koka soppa på en spik", in English it would be "to make soup from a nail".
Basically, a traveler is tired and hungry, and knocks on an old womans door and asks if he may sleep in her house for the night. She is very reluctant but says okay, but she won't be providing any food. The traveler says it's fine, he has this old rusty nail to make a soup with. And so he drops the nail into her cauldron with water and is like "oh man this is gonna be good! You know what would make this even better? A potato or two.." and the old woman is getting intrigued, she's never seen a soup from a nail before. She's like "hmm I mean, maybe I have some potatoes you can have..". So she gets him some potatoes, just to see what happens. The traveler is like "wow, now it's gonna be a great soup! You know would make it even better? An onion..". And the old woman is like "well I gotta know if it works" and gets him an onion.
And so on and so forth (my dad would let me and my siblings come up with new ingredients too) until the traveler says "wow this soup is probably the best soup I've ever had! If only I had *last ingredient* it would be fit for a king!". And the old woman is like "well... maybe I have a little bit of *said ingredient*" and when the soup is done, they both enjoy it together!
It was probably my favorite bedtime story when I was a child :)
You look fabulous Morgan! Also, your editing skills keep on getting better. Thank you for this video!
It's like a Muppet movie that has cameos by all my favorite stars!
Omg before you even said stone soup, I was like “oh this give me stone soup vibes”
Interesting... I come from a small country by the sea and we have a story about a soup made from a sea stone (it has to be one of those covered with tiny holes). The premise is that sea stones contain algae and sometimes a special kind of sea shell that lives in stones, so if you cook it you will get an actual soup without any ingredients. I haven't seen anyone make it thoughso it might just be a story too.
*squeals at the combination of all my favorite youtubers* Bernadette with her sophisticated beans, and Rachel with the potato vibes! I love it!
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!
You made me hungry even though I just ate xD. Reminds me of a cauldron cooks at my grandma's. We would drop basically what you did - except maybe ramen haha - with a cabbage instead of kimchi and it was glorious. Slow cooked over a fire in a cast iron pot - yummy. I love how you edited this video. You surprise me every time Morgan :D. Thank you!
This reminds me of when my kids were young and in scouts. We would go on a soup hike. Everyone/family would bring a can of soup but not cream based. All the cans were added together and heated. It wasn’t visually appealing but it tasted good. There was always enough to feed everyone there. It was always a fun day
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 see you have a Life of Boris fan here potentially with THE BAY LEAF!
For me, it would have to be a nice bag of red onions. Can't go wrong with onions.
😂😂 the music video is amazing!
@@MorganDonner oh I'm so glad you know about him! Bay just ties everything together!
This was the coolest thing ever. basically, all my favourite youtube personalities (content creators) are friends. I love it!!!!!!
I believe that the traveler originally asked the villagers for food and they refused him. So he cleverly made the stone soup, because no one could resist the magic...I love your videos and skills. Totally impressive.
STONE SOUP!!! This really brought me back to my childhood and I am so delighted.
This reminds me of when I cook for the monks at the Buddhist temple by my house. We usually make a stock then add all the leftovers to the stock and BOOM! "Soup"
It was so sweet to see familiar friends appear with their choice of food.
This was so fun to watch! Abby cracked me up!! 😂
"Sopa da Pedra" (Stone soup) is actually a traditional Portuguese dish and the story is the same, but instead of happening at the side of the road, it happens in someone's house. Did not know that it was an international thing.
Honestly stone soup sounds like such a fun thing to have bubbling at a reenactment or Larp, I loved that story as a kid
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 laughed out loud at Angela's addition. And what a fun way to incorporate the sponsor. ^_^
Such an awesome idea, and I love Sewstine adding something a bit left field with the kimchi and spam!
im not sure if my uncontrollable sobbing while watching this is sleep deprivation or because this is so wholesome and cute and wonderful!!! I love this video so so much!!!
That is a big ass cauldron!! Man, some day when I own a home and never have to move again I’m getting a gigantic cauldron like that. I loved this!
The real stone soup is the friends we made along the way 🙏🏼
Love your hedgehog beard. 🦔
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This video was so nostalgic for me because when I was little my mom used to throw Stone Soup parties for us and our friends. She would ask everyone to bring their favorite soup ingredient and then she would read us all the story before we all went into the kitchen to help make lunch! It's one of my favorite memories from my childhood!!!
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.)
This unlocked a memory of reading the story and making Stone Soup when I was in Kindergarten!