STONE SOUP 
1 lg. pot
6 c. water
3 lg. carrots, diced
4 stalks celery, diced
1 (16 oz.) can tomatoes
1 lg. gray stone from yard (scrubbed clean)
2 chopped onions
6 beef bouillon cubes
3 lg. potatoes, diced
1 c. chopped cabbage
1 1/2 tsp. salt
Pepper to taste (optional)

Scrub and chop all vegetables. Put clean stone in pot. Add all ingredients and cook for 1 hour or until vegetables are tender. See if your child doesn't agree if the soup isn't better when you remember the stone.

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Stone Soup
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 Marie S (South Africa) says:
I love the idea.
   #151415
 Betty Andrews says:
I was taught Stone Soup originated during the Depression when hardly anybody had anything and you put on a pot of water to boil with a clean stone in it. Then you'd go to several neighbors and ask if they had a a potato, an onion, a carrot or any other vegetable they could spare. When you had a few vegetables you'd put them in the pot with salt & pepper and cook it all together for soup. Hopefully you had enough to share with your generous neighbors so no one would go hungry. And that's the way I grew up with Stone Soup. I still make it this day with whatever vegetables I have on hand. And, yes, I do share.... :)

 

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